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

61 citations · 155 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

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

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…

hep-ex2026

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…

hep-ex2026

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…

astro-ph.SR2026

Modeling the Effect of the Heliospheric Magnetic Field on Cosmic Ray Muon Shadows

MINOS+ Collaboration, :, P. Adamson +75

Shadows cast in the cosmic ray (CR) muon sky by the Sun were located using muon data from the MINOS far detector in Northern Minnesota. The shadows were observed independently acro…

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★ 23 cited

Joint neutrino oscillation analysis from the T2K and NOvA experiments

NOvA, T2K Collaborations, : +597

The landmark discovery that neutrinos have mass and can change type (or "flavor") as they propagate -- a process called neutrino oscillation -- has opened up a rich array of theore…

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★ 5 cited

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

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…

nucl-ex2025

Investigation of Medium Modifications to C Structure Functions in the Resonance Region

S. Alsalmi, I. Albayrak, A. Ahmidouch +75

We present results from a high precision experimental study of the nuclear modification of the longitudinal () to transverse () structure function ratio for bound nucleon…

hep-ex2024

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…

hep-ex2024

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…

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★ 13 cited

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)…

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

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-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…