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most citedObservation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors and the NuMI neutrino beam

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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-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-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-ex2024★ 7 cited

Search for -Violating Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions with the NOvA Experiment

NOvA Collaboration, M. A. Acero, B. Acharya +204

This Letter reports a search for charge-parity () symmetry violating nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter using the NOvA Experiment, and examines their effec…

hep-ex2014★ 34 cited

Observation of muon intensity variations by season with the MINOS Near Detector

P. Adamson, I. Anghel, A. Aurisano +109

A sample of 1.5310 cosmic-ray-induced single muon events has been recorded at 225 meters-water-equivalent using the MINOS Near Detector. The underground muon rate is…

hep-ex2013

The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment: Exploring Fundamental Symmetries of the Universe

LBNE Collaboration, Corey Adams, David Adams +482

The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early Universe, the dynamics of the supernova bursts that produced the heavy elements necessary for life and whether protons even…

hep-ex2013★ 31 cited

Project X: Physics Opportunities

Andreas S. Kronfeld, Robert S. Tschirhart, Usama Al-Binni +133

Part 2 of "Project X: Accelerator Reference Design, Physics Opportunities, Broader Impacts". In this Part, we outline the particle-physics program that can be achieved with Project…

hep-ex2010★ 18 cited

Measurement of the underground atmospheric muon charge ratio using the MINOS Near Detector

MINOS Collaboration

The magnetized MINOS Near Detector, at a depth of 225 meters of water equivalent (mwe), is used to measure the atmospheric muon charge ratio. The ratio of observed positive to nega…

hep-ex2010★ 62 cited

New constraints on muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS

The MINOS Collaboration

This letter reports results from a search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions by the MINOS experiment based on a 7x10^20 protons-on-target exposure. Our observation…

hep-ex2010★ 95 cited

Search for sterile neutrino mixing in the MINOS long-baseline experiment

The MINOS Collaboration

A search for depletion of the combined flux of active neutrino species over a 735 km baseline is reported using neutral-current interaction data recorded by the MINOS detectors in…

hep-ex2009★ 131 cited

Neutrino and Antineutrino Inclusive Charged-current Cross Section Measurements with the MINOS Near Detector

The MINOS Collaboration

The energy dependence of the neutrino-iron and antineutrino-iron inclusive charged-current cross sections and their ratio have been measured using a high-statistics sample with the…

hep-ex2009★ 83 cited

Observation of muon intensity variations by season with the MINOS far detector

The MINOS Collaboration

The temperature of the upper atmosphere affects the height of primary cosmic ray interactions and the production of high-energy cosmic ray muons which can be detected deep undergro…

hep-ex2008★ 65 cited

Search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment

P. Adamson

We report the first detailed comparisons of the rates and spectra of neutral-current neutrino interactions at two widely separated locations. A depletion in the rate at the far sit…

physics.ins-det2008★ 314 cited

The magnetized steel and scintillator calorimeters of the MINOS experiment

MINOS Collaboration, D. G. Michael

The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment uses an accelerator-produced neutrino beam to perform precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters…

hep-ex2007★ 67 cited

Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Charge Ratio at TeV Energies with MINOS

MINOS Collaboration

The 5.4 kton MINOS far detector has been taking charge-separated cosmic ray muon data since the beginning of August, 2003 at a depth of 2070 meters-water-equivalent in the Soudan U…

hep-ex2007★ 29 cited

Charge-Separated Atmospheric Neutrino-Induced Muons in the MINOS Far Detector

MINOS Collaboration

We found 140 neutrino-induced muons in 854.24 live days in the MINOS far detector. We looked for evidence of neutrino disappearance in this data set by computing the ratio of the n…

hep-ex2006★ 533 cited

Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors and the NuMI neutrino beam

MINOS Collaboration

This letter reports results from the MINOS experiment based on its initial exposure to neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. The rate and energy spectra of charged current muon ne…