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20132025
most citedDesign, Calibration, and Performance of the MINERvA Detector

212 citations · 1.4k across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

hep-ex2025

The Nucleon Axial Form Factor from Elementary Target Data

A. S. Meyer, T. Cai, M. Moore +40

Precise neutrino-nucleon amplitudes are essential ingredients for predicting neutrino event rates in current and upcoming long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. A common n…

hep-ex2021★ 17 cited

Measurement of inclusive charged-current $ν_{\numu}$ scattering on hydrocarbon at {<Enu>} 6 GeV with low three-momentum transfer

M. V. Ascencio, D. A. Andrade, I. Mahbub +63

The \minerva experiment reports double-differential cross-section measurements for -carbon interactions with three-momentum transfer GeV obtained with medium…

hep-ex2021★ 13 cited

Exploring Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the GeV Regime using MINERvA

X. -G. Lu, Z. Ahmad Dar, F. Akbar +64

With the advance of particle accelerator and detector technologies, the neutrino physics landscape is rapidly expanding. As neutrino oscillation experiments enter the intensity and…

hep-ex2021

Measurement of inclusive charged-current cross sections as a function of muon kinematics at on hydrocarbon

D. Ruterbories, A. Filkins, Z. Ahmad Dar +60

MINERvA presents a new analysis of inclusive charged-current neutrino interactions on a hydrocarbon target. We report single and double-differential cross sections in muon transver…

hep-ex2021★ 10 cited

Use of Neutrino Scattering Events with Low Hadronic Recoil to Inform Neutrino Flux and Detector Energy Scale

A. Bashyal, D. Rimal, B. Messerly +60

Charged-current neutrino interactions with low hadronic recoil ("low-nu") have a cross-section that is approximately constant versus neutrino energy. These interactions have been u…

hep-ex2021★ 7 cited

An Error Analysis Toolkit for Binned Counting Experiments

B. Messerly, R. Fine, A. Olivier +42

We introduce the MINERvA Analysis Toolkit (MAT), a utility for centralizing the handling of systematic uncertainties in HEP analyses. The fundamental utilities of the toolkit are t…

hep-ex2020★ 31 cited

Double-Differential Inclusive Charged-Current Cross Sections on Hydrocarbon in MINERvA at 3.5 GeV

A. Filkins, D. Ruterbories, Y. Liu +64

MINERvA reports inclusive charged-current cross sections for muon neutrinos on hydrocarbon in the NuMI beamline. We measured the double-differential cross section in terms of the l…

hep-ex2020★ 32 cited

Probing nuclear effects with neutrino-induced charged-current neutral pion production

D. Coplowe, O. Altinok, Z. Ahmad Dar +65

We study neutrino-induced charged-current (CC) production on carbon nuclei using events with fully imaged final-state proton- systems. Novel use of final-state correlati…

hep-ex2019★ 33 cited

High-statistics measurement of neutrino quasielastic-like scattering at <E_nu>=~6 GeV on a hydrocarbon target

M. F. Carneiro, D. Ruterbories, Z. Ahmad Dar +65

We measure neutrino charged current quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at high statistics using the wide-band NuMI beam with neutrino energy peaked at 6 GeV. The double-di…

hep-ex2019★ 68 cited

Constraint of the MINERvA Medium Energy Neutrino Flux using Neutrino-Electron Elastic Scattering

E. Valencia, D. Jena, Nuruzzaman +68

Elastic neutrino scattering on electrons is a precisely-known purely leptonic process that provides a standard candle for measuring neutrino flux in conventional neutrino beams. Us…

hep-ex2019★ 53 cited

Tuning the GENIE Pion Production Model with MINERvA Data

P. Stowell, L. Pickering, C. Wilkinson +68

Faced with unresolved tensions between neutrino interaction measurements at few-GeV neutrino energies, current experiments are forced to accept large systematic uncertainties to co…

hep-ex2018★ 82 cited

Measurement of final-state correlations in neutrino muon-proton mesonless production on hydrocarbon at GeV

X. -G. Lu, M. Betancourt, T. Walton +69

Final-state kinematic imbalances are measured in mesonless production of in the MINERvA tracker. Initial- and final-state nuclear effects are probed using…

hep-ex2018★ 32 cited

Antineutrino Charged-Current reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer

R. Gran, M. Betancourt, M. Elkins +68

We report on multinucleon effects in low momentum transfer ( GeV/c) anti-neutrino interactions on plastic (CH) scintillator. These data are from the 2010-2011 antineutrino p…

hep-ex2018★ 47 cited

Measurement of the muon anti-neutrino double-differential cross section for quasi-elastic scattering on hydrocarbon at~ GeV

C. E. Patrick, L. Aliaga, A. Bashyal +64

We present double-differential measurements of anti-neutrino quasi-elastic scattering in the MINERvA detector. This study improves on a previous single differential measurement by…

hep-ex2017★ 29 cited

Measurement of Total and Differential Cross Sections of Neutrino and Antineutrino Coherent Production on Carbon

MINERvA Collaboration, A. Mislivec, A. Higuera +61

Neutrino induced coherent charged pion production on nuclei, , is a rare inelastic interaction in which the four-momentum squared transfered to the nu…

hep-ex2017★ 40 cited

Direct Measurement of Nuclear Dependence of Charged Current Quasielastic-like Neutrino Interactions using MINERvA

M. Betancourt, A. Ghosh, T. Walton +53

Charged-current interactions on carbon, iron, and lead with a final state hadronic system of one or more protons with zero mesons are used to investigate the influence of the…

hep-ex2017★ 21 cited

Measurement of the antineutrino to neutrino charged-current interaction cross section ratio in MINERvA

Minerva Collaboration, L. Ren, L. Aliaga +66

We present measurements of the neutrino and antineutrino total charged-current cross sections on carbon and their ratio using the MINERvA scintillator-tracker. The measurements spa…

hep-ex2016★ 13 cited

Measurement of neutral-current production by neutrinos using MINERvA

C. M. Marshall, L. Aliaga, O. Altinok +64

Neutral-current production of by atmospheric neutrinos is a background in searches for the proton decay . Reactions such as $νp \rightarrow νK^{+…

hep-ex2016★ 12 cited

First evidence of coherent meson production in neutrino-nucleus scattering

Z. Wang, C. M. Marshall, L. Aliaga +68

Neutrino-induced charged-current coherent kaon production, , is a rare, inelastic electroweak process that brings a on shell and leaves the target…

hep-ex2016★ 63 cited

Cross sections for neutrino and antineutrino induced pion production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

C. L. McGivern, T. Le, B. Eberly +67

Separate samples of charged-current pion production events representing two semi-inclusive channels -CC() and -CC() have been obtained using neutrino an…

hep-ex2016★ 20 cited

Evidence for neutral-current diffractive neutral pion production from hydrogen in neutrino interactions on hydrocarbon

MINERvA Collaboration, J. Wolcott, L. Aliaga +68

The MINERvA experiment observes an excess of events containing electromagnetic showers relative to the expectation from Monte Carlo simulations in neutral-current neutrino interact…

physics.ins-det2015★ 77 cited

Measurement of Neutrino Flux from Neutrino-Electron Elastic Scattering

MINERvA Collaboration, J. Park, L. Aliaga +66

Muon-neutrino elastic scattering on electrons is an observable neutrino process whose cross section is precisely known. Consequently a measurement of this process in an accelerator…

hep-ex2015★ 134 cited

Identification of nuclear effects in neutrino-carbon interactions at low three-momentum transfer

P. A. Rodrigues, J. Demgen, E. Miltenberger +73

Two different nuclear-medium effects are isolated using a low three-momentum transfer subsample of neutrino-carbon scattering data from the MINERvA neutrino experiment. The observe…

hep-ex2015★ 43 cited

Measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at = 3.6 GeV

MINERvA Collaboration, J. Wolcott, O. Altinok +67

The first direct measurement of electron-neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region of incident neutrino energy has been carried ou…