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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…
Stochastic diffusive energy balance climate model with a multiplicative noise modeling the Solar variability
Gregorio Díaz, Jesús Ildefonso Díaz
We prove the existence, uniqueness, and comparison of solutions for a nonlinear stochastic parabolic partial differential equation that includes the Solar variability in terms of a…
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…
Performance of an Optical TPC Geant4 Simulation with Opticks GPU-Accelerated Photon Propagation
NEXT Collaboration, I. Parmaksiz, K. Mistry +113
We investigate the performance of Opticks, a NVIDIA OptiX API 7.5 GPU-accelerated photon propagation tool compared with a single-threaded Geant4 simulation. We compare the simulati…
Reconstructing neutrinoless double beta decay event kinematics in a xenon gas detector with vertex tagging
NEXT Collaboration, M. Martínez-Vara, K. Mistry +108
If neutrinoless double beta decay is discovered, the next natural step would be understanding the lepton number violating physics responsible for it. Several alternatives exist bey…
Design, characterization and installation of the NEXT-100 cathode and electroluminescence regions
NEXT Collaboration, K. Mistry, L. Rogers +107
NEXT-100 is currently being constructed at the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc in the Spanish Pyrenees and will search for neutrinoless double beta decay using a high-pressure…
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…
Demonstration of neutrinoless double beta decay searches in gaseous xenon with NEXT
NEXT Collaboration, P. Novella, M. Sorel +112
The NEXT experiment aims at the sensitive search of the neutrinoless double beta decay in Xe, using high-pressure gas electroluminescent time projection chambers. The NEXT-…
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…
Reflectance and fluorescence characteristics of PTFE coated with TPB at visible, UV, and VUV as a function of thickness
J. Haefner, A. Fahs, J. Ho +100
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is an excellent diffuse reflector widely used in light collection systems for particle physics experiments. In noble element systems, it is often coa…
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…
Ba ion trapping by organic submonolayer: towards an ultra-low background neutrinoless double beta decay detector
P. Herrero-Gómez, J. P. Calupitan, M. Ilyn +112
If neutrinos are their own antiparticles, the otherwise-forbidden nuclear reaction known as neutrinoless double beta decay () can occur, with a characteristic lifetime which…
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…
Stochastic energy balance climate models with Legendre weighted diffusion and a cylindrical Wiener process forcing
Gregorio Díaz, Jesús Ildefonso Díaz
We consider a class of one-dimensional nonlinear stochastic parabolic problems associated with Sellers and Budyko diffusive energy balance climate models with a Legendre weighted d…
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…
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…
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…
Neutrino Flux Predictions for the NuMI Beam
MINERvA Collaboration, L. Aliaga, M. Kordosky +58
Knowledge of the neutrino flux produced by the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline is essential to the neutrino oscillation and neutrino interaction measurements of the…