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most citedDesign and Construction of the MicroBooNE Detector

429 citations · 2.1k across the 44 of their papers we have counts for

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45 papers

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…

hep-ex2026

NOvA's Current and Future Sterile Neutrino Searches

Adam Lister

The NOvA experiment's most recent search for eV-scale sterile neutrinos under a 3+1 model simultaneously analyses muon neutrino and neutral current datasets from the NuMI beam at i…

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★ 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-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-ex2022★ 8 cited

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…

hep-ex2022★ 9 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2022

Investigations on a Fuzzy Process: Effect of Diffusion on Calibration and Particle Identification in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

A. Lister, M. Stancari

Ionization electron diffusion in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) has typically been considered at the detector design stage, but little attention has been given to…

hep-ex2021★ 6 cited

Search for an anomalous excess of charged-current interactions without pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE experiment

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +188

This article presents a measurement of interactions without pions in the final state using the MicroBooNE experiment and an investigation into the excess of low-energy electr…

hep-ex2021★ 5 cited

Search for an Excess of Electron Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE Using Multiple Final State Topologies

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An +192

We present a measurement of electron neutrino interactions from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber to address the nature o…

hep-ex2021★ 14 cited

Measurement of the Double-Differential Muon-neutrino Charged-Current Inclusive Cross Section in the NOvA Near Detector

M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +203

We report cross-section measurements of the final-state muon kinematics for \numu charged-current interactions in the NOvA near detector using an accumulated 8.09 pr…

hep-ex2021★ 204 cited

An Improved Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters by the NOvA Experiment

M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +202

We present new , , , and oscillation measurements by the NOvA exper…

hep-ex2021★ 4 cited

Extended search for supernova-like neutrinos in NOvA coincident with LIGO/Virgo detections

M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +200

A search is performed for supernova-like neutrino interactions coincident with 76 gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration. For 40 of these events, full r…

hep-ex2021★ 1 cited

Search for active-sterile antineutrino mixing using neutral-current interactions with the NOvA experiment

M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +196

This Letter reports results from the first long-baseline search for sterile antineutrinos mixing in an accelerator-based antineutrino-dominated beam. The rate of neutral-current in…

hep-ex2021★ 8 cited

Seasonal Variation of Multiple-Muon Cosmic Ray Air Showers Observed in the NOvA Detector on the Surface

M. A. Acero, P. Adamson, L. Aliaga +194

We report the rate of cosmic ray air showers with multiplicities exceeding 15 muon tracks recorded in the NOvA Far Detector between May 2016 and May 2018. The detector is located o…

physics.ins-det2021★ 1 cited

Measurement of the Longitudinal Diffusion of Ionization Electrons in the MicroBooNE Detector

P. Abratenko, R. An, J. Anthony +179

Accurate knowledge of electron transport properties is vital to understanding the information provided by liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). Ionization electron drift…

hep-ex2021★ 22 cited

Experiment Simulation Configurations Approximating DUNE TDR

DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +966

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment consisting of a high-power, broadband neutrino beam, a highly cap…

hep-ex2020★ 14 cited

Search for Slow Magnetic Monopoles with the NOvA Detector on the Surface

NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, P. Adamson +196

We report a search for a magnetic monopole component of the cosmic-ray flux in a 95-day exposure of the NOvA experiment's Far Detector, a 14 kt segmented liquid scintillator detect…

hep-ex2020★ 124 cited

Prospects for Beyond the Standard Model Physics Searches at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +970

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will be a powerful tool for a variety of physics topics. The high-intensity proton beams provide a large neutrino flux, sampled by a…

physics.ins-det2020★ 123 cited

First results on ProtoDUNE-SP liquid argon time projection chamber performance from a beam test at the CERN Neutrino Platform

DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, A. Abed Abud +987

The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber with an active volume of m. It is installed at the CERN Neutrino Plat…

hep-ex2020★ 77 cited

Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume II: DUNE Physics

B. Abi, R. Acciarri, Mario A. Acero +958

The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of the supernovae that produced the heavy elements necessary for life, and whether protons eventuall…

physics.ins-det2020★ 20 cited

Vertex-Finding and Reconstruction of Contained Two-track Neutrino Events in the MicroBooNE Detector

MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed +186

We describe algorithms developed to isolate and accurately reconstruct two-track events that are contained within the MicroBooNE detector. This method is optimized to reconstruct t…