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hep-ex2026

First Measurement of the Superscaling Variable as a Function of Visible Kinematics in Charged-Current Quasi-Elastic Neutrino--Nucleus Scattering

The MINERvA Collaboration, L. Giannessi, S. Akhter +33

We report the first measurement of the superscaling variable in neutrino--nucleus scattering, using charged-current quasielastic-like -Carbon interactio…

hep-ex2026

Comparisons of triple-differential cross sections for quasielastic-like -hydrocarbon interactions using 3~GeV versus 6~GeV beams in MINERvA

D. Ruterbories, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +40

Neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like scattering, a reaction category extensively used in neutrino oscillation measurements, receives contributions from single nucleon knockou…

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-ex2023★ 7 cited

Measurement of Electron Neutrino and Antineutrino Cross Sections at Low Momentum Transfer

S. Henry, H. Su, S. Akhter +53

Accelerator based neutrino oscillation experiments seek to measure the relative number of electron and muon neutrinos and antineutrinos at different values. However high stat…

hep-ex2021

Neutral pion reconstruction using machine learning in the MINERvA experiment at GeV

A. Ghosh, B. Yaeggy, R. Galindo +53

This paper presents a novel neutral-pion reconstruction that takes advantage of the machine learning technique of semantic segmentation using MINERvA data collected between 2013-20…

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-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-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★ 161 cited

Neutrino Flux Predictions for the NuMI Beam

MINERvA Collaboration, L. Aliaga, M. Kordosky +58

Knowledge of the neutrino flux produced by the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline is essential to the neutrino oscillation and neutrino interaction measurements of the…

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…

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…

hep-ex2015★ 54 cited

Single neutral pion production by charged-current interactions on hydrocarbon at 3.6 GeV

T. Le, J. L. Palomino, L. Aliaga +62

Single neutral pion production via muon antineutrino charged-current interactions in plastic scintillator (CH) is studied using the \minerva detector exposed to the NuMI low-energy…

hep-ex2014★ 53 cited

Measurement of muon plus proton final states in Interactions on Hydrocarbon at = 4.2 GeV

T. Walton, M. Betancourt, L. Aliaga +73

A study of charged-current muon neutrino scattering on hydrocarbon in which the final state includes a muon and a proton and no pions is presented. Although this signature has the…

hep-ex2014★ 80 cited

Measurement of Coherent Production of in Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Beams on Carbon from of to GeV

A. Higuera, A. Mislivec, L. Aliaga +69

Neutrino-induced coherent charged pion production on nuclei, is a rare, inelastic interaction in which a small squared four-momentum is t…

hep-ex2014★ 83 cited

Charged Pion Production in Interactions on Hydrocarbon at = 4.0 GeV

B. Eberly, L. Aliaga, O. Altinok +78

Charged pion production via charged current interactions on plastic (CH) is studied using the MINERvA detector exposed to the NuMI wideband neutrino beam at Fermilab. Events…

hep-ex2014★ 57 cited

Measurement of Ratios of Charged-Current Cross Sections on C, Fe, and Pb to CH at Neutrino Energies 2-20 GeV

B. G. Tice, M. Datta, J. Mousseau +74

We present measurements of charged-current cross section ratios on carbon, iron, and lead relative to a scintillator (CH) using the fine-grained MINERvA detector exposed to t…

hep-ex2013★ 9 cited

Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_ν ~ 3.5 GeV

The MINERvA collaboration, G. A. Fiorentini, D. W. Schmitz +115

We report a study of muon neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic events in the segmented scintillator inner tracker of the MINERvA experiment running in the NuMI neutrino beam at F…

hep-ex2013★ 161 cited

Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_ν ~ 3.5 GeV

The MINERvA collaboration, L. Fields, J. Chvojka +115

We have isolated muon anti-neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic interactions occurring in the segmented scintillator tracking region of the MINERvA detector running in the NuMI n…

hep-ex2012★ 47 cited

Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos

D. D. Stancil, P. Adamson, M. Alania +109

Beams of neutrinos have been proposed as a vehicle for communications under unusual circumstances, such as direct point-to-point global communication, communication with submarines…

hep-ex2011★ 15 cited

Arachne - A web-based event viewer for MINERvA

N. Tagg, J. Brangham, J. Chvojka +35

Neutrino interaction events in the MINERvA detector are visually represented with a web-based tool called Arachne. Data are retrieved from a central server via AJAX, and client-sid…