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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…
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…
Simultaneous measurement of proton and lepton kinematics in quasielastic-like -hydrocarbon interactions from 2 to 20 GeV
The MINERvA Collaboration, D. Ruterbories, S. Akhter +71
Neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like scattering, a reaction category extensively used in neutrino oscillation measurements, probes nuclear effects that govern neutrino-nucleu…
Vertex finding in neutrino-nucleus interaction: A Model Architecture Comparison
F. Akbar, A. Ghosh, S. Young +48
We compare different neural network architectures for Machine Learning (ML) algorithms designed to identify the neutrino interaction vertex position in the MINERvA detector. The ar…
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…
Low exposure long-baseline neutrino oscillation sensitivity of the DUNE experiment
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1151
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will produce world-leading neutrino oscillation measurements over the lifetime of the experiment. In this work, we explore DUNE's se…
Searching for solar KDAR with DUNE
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1174
The observation of 236 MeV muon neutrinos from kaon-decay-at-rest (KDAR) originating in the core of the Sun would provide a unique signature of dark matter annihilation. Since exce…
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…
Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA
D. Ruterbories, Z. Ahmad Dar, F. Akbar +61
Inverse muon decay, , is a reaction whose cross-section can be predicted with very small uncertainties. It has a neutrino energy threshold of GeV and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Data Preservation at MINERvA
R. Fine, B. Messerly, K. S. McFarland +22
Between 2013 and 2019 MINERvA collected an accelerator neutrino interaction dataset that is uniquely relevant to the energy range of DUNE. These are the only currently available da…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…