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most citedNuclear binding energy and transverse momentum imbalance in neutrino-nucleus reactions

61 citations · 263 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

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-ex2025

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

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…

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-ex2023

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…

hep-ex2023★ 9 cited

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…

hep-ex2022

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…

hep-ex2022★ 6 cited

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…

hep-ex2022★ 21 cited

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 ()…

hep-ex2022★ 9 cited

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…

hep-ex2022★ 1 cited

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…

hep-ex2022

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…

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★ 12 cited

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…

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

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-ex2019★ 61 cited

Nuclear binding energy and transverse momentum imbalance in neutrino-nucleus reactions

T. Cai, X. -G. Lu, L. A. Harewood +64

We have measured new observables based on the final state kinematic imbalances in the mesonless production of in the tracker. Comp…