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The NOvA Test Beam Experiment
NOvA Collaboration, S. Abubakar, M. A. Acero +208
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to study the neutrino mixing parameters, mass ordering, and CP violation in the lepton sector. A key component of t…
NOvA Dual-Baseline Search for Active-to-Sterile Neutrino Oscillations using Neutrino- and Antineutrino-Enriched Samples
NOvA Collaboration, S. Abubakar, M. A. Acero +185
We report a search for neutrino oscillations to sterile neutrinos in the NOvA detectors under a model with three active and one sterile neutrinos. This search simultaneously fits d…
Neutron detector response modeling in NOvA
NOvA Collaboration, S. Abubakar, M. A. Acero +194
Neutrons can present a significant challenge for neutrino experiments in which energy reconstruction is critical. With the ability to escape detection completely and with a weak co…
High Statistics Measurements of Charged-Current Single Production with Zero Pion Kinetic Energy Threshold in MINERvA
E. Granados, B. Messerly, S. Akhter +32
This Letter presents measurements of single-differential cross sections of -induced charged-current 1 production on scintillator using the MINERvA detector at Fermilab…
Measurement of Inclusive Charged-Current Scattering on C, CH, Fe, and Pb at 6 GeV with MINERvA
A. Klustová, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +35
We report MINERvA's first measurement of inclusive charged-current cross sections on carbon, hydrocarbon, iron, and lead, and their ratios to the cross section on hydroca…
Building an AI-native Research Ecosystem for Experimental Particle Physics: A Community Vision
Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad, Alaa Abdelhamid, Haider Abidi +457
Experimental particle physics seeks to understand the universe by probing its fundamental particles and forces and exploring how they govern the large-scale processes that shape co…
Boosted decision tree reweighting of simulated neutrino interactions for GeV neutrino cross section measurements
Z. Lin, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +38
This paper illustrates a generic method for multi-dimensional reweighting of GeV neutrino interaction Monte Carlo samples. The reweighting is based on a Boosted Decision Tre…
Precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with 10 years of data from the NOvA experiment
NOvA Collaboration, S. Abubakar, M. A. Acero +207
This Letter reports measurements of muon-neutrino disappearance and electron-neutrino appearance and the corresponding antineutrino processes between the two NOvA detectors in the…
Search for Accelerator-Produced Sub-GeV Dark Matter with the NOvA Near Detector
S. Abubakar, M. Acero, B. Acharya +184
The NuMI facility at Fermilab produces a high-intensity beam of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos, designed to study neutrino oscillations. This beam may also be a source of dark ma…
Measurement of charged-current and cross sections on hydrocarbon in a shallow inelastic scattering region
A. Lozano, G. Silva, G. Caceres +46
This MINERvA analysis is the first neutrino and antineutrino study of a shallow inelastic scattering region, which is the transition region between resonant production and deep ine…
Measurement of the A dependence of the muon neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like cross section as a function of muon and proton kinematics at E6 GeV
J. Kleykamp, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +54
The first simultaneous measurements of the quasielastic-like cross section on C, CH, H0, Fe, and Pb targets as a function of kinematic imbalance variables in the plane tr…
Measurement of the double-differential cross section of muon-neutrino charged-current interactions with low hadronic energy in the NOvA Near Detector
M. A. Acero, B. Acharya, P. Adamson +208
The NOvA collaboration reports cross-section measurements for charged-current interactions with low hadronic energy (maximum kinetic energy of 250 MeV for protons and 175 MeV…
Measurement of d2sigma/d|q|dEavail in charged current neutrino-nucleus interactions at <Ev> = 1.86 GeV using the NOvA Near Detector
M. A. Acero, B. Acharya, P. Adamson +205
Double- and single-differential cross sections for inclusive charged-current neutrino-nucleus scattering are reported for the kinematic domain 0 to 2 GeV/c in three-momentum transf…
Search for -Violating Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions with the NOvA Experiment
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, B. Acharya +204
This Letter reports a search for charge-parity () symmetry violating nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter using the NOvA Experiment, and examines their effec…
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…
Measurement of the Multi-Neutron Charged Current Differential Cross Section at Low Available Energy on Hydrocarbon
A. Olivier, T. Cai, S. Akhter +58
Neutron production in antineutrino interactions can lead to bias in energy reconstruction in neutrino oscillation experiments, but these interactions have rarely been studied. MINE…
Expanding neutrino oscillation parameter measurements in NOvA using a Bayesian approach
NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, B. Acharya +196
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that measures oscillations in charged-current (disappearance) and (appearance)…
Simultaneous measurement of muon neutrino quasielastic-like cross sections on CH, C, water, Fe, and Pb as a function of muon kinematics at MINERvA
J. Kleykamp, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +65
This paper presents the first simultaneous measurement of the quasielastic-like neutrino-nucleus cross sections on C, water, Fe, Pb and scintillator (hydrocarbon or CH) as a functi…
High-Statistics Measurement of Antineutrino Quasielastic-like scattering at 6~GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target
A. Bashyal, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +66
We present measurements of the cross section for anti-neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon using the medium energy (ME) NuMI wide-band neutrino beam…
Neutrino-induced coherent production in C, CH, Fe and Pb at GeV
M. A. Ramírez, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +63
MINERvA has measured the -induced coherent cross section simultaneously in hydrocarbon (CH), graphite (C), iron (Fe) and lead (Pb) targets using neutrinos from 2 to 20…
Improved constraint on the MINERvA medium energy neutrino flux using data
L. Zazueta, S. Akhter, Z. Ahmad Dar +58
Processes with precisely known cross sections, like neutrino electron elastic scattering () and inverse muon decay ()…
Simultaneous measurement of muon neutrino charged-current single production in CH, C, HO, Fe, and Pb targets in MINERvA
A. Bercellie, K. A. Kroma-Wiley, S. Akhter +69
Neutrino-induced charged-current single production in the resonance region is of considerable interest to accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments. In thi…
Monte Carlo method for constructing confidence intervals with unconstrained and constrained nuisance parameters in the NOvA experiment
M. A. Acero, B. Acharya, P. Adamson +218
Measuring observables to constrain models using maximum-likelihood estimation is fundamental to many physics experiments. Wilks' theorem provides a simple way to construct confiden…
Measurement of the Nucleus Charged-Current Double-Differential Cross Section at 2.4 GeV using NOvA
M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +212
The inclusive electron neutrino charged-current cross section is measured in the NOvA near detector using protons-on-target (POT) in the NuMI beam. The sample o…