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

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43 papers

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

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★ 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★ 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…

hep-ex2019★ 68 cited

Constraint of the MINERvA Medium Energy Neutrino Flux using Neutrino-Electron Elastic Scattering

E. Valencia, D. Jena, Nuruzzaman +68

Elastic neutrino scattering on electrons is a precisely-known purely leptonic process that provides a standard candle for measuring neutrino flux in conventional neutrino beams. Us…

hep-ex2018★ 47 cited

Measurement of the muon anti-neutrino double-differential cross section for quasi-elastic scattering on hydrocarbon at~ GeV

C. E. Patrick, L. Aliaga, A. Bashyal +64

We present double-differential measurements of anti-neutrino quasi-elastic scattering in the MINERvA detector. This study improves on a previous single differential measurement by…

hep-ex2017★ 29 cited

Measurement of Total and Differential Cross Sections of Neutrino and Antineutrino Coherent Production on Carbon

MINERvA Collaboration, A. Mislivec, A. Higuera +61

Neutrino induced coherent charged pion production on nuclei, , is a rare inelastic interaction in which the four-momentum squared transfered to the nu…

hep-ex2017★ 45 cited

Measurement of charged-current single production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

O. Altinok, T. Le, L. Aliaga +57

The semi-exclusive channel is analyzed using MINERvA exposed to the low-energy NuMI beam with spectral peak at $E_ν…

hep-ex2017★ 21 cited

Measurement of the antineutrino to neutrino charged-current interaction cross section ratio in MINERvA

Minerva Collaboration, L. Ren, L. Aliaga +66

We present measurements of the neutrino and antineutrino total charged-current cross sections on carbon and their ratio using the MINERvA scintillator-tracker. The measurements spa…

hep-ex2016★ 13 cited

Measurement of neutral-current production by neutrinos using MINERvA

C. M. Marshall, L. Aliaga, O. Altinok +64

Neutral-current production of by atmospheric neutrinos is a background in searches for the proton decay . Reactions such as $νp \rightarrow νK^{+…

hep-ex2016★ 34 cited

Measurements of the Inclusive Neutrino and Antineutrino Charged Current Cross Sections in MINERvA Using the Low- Flux Method

MINERvA Collaboration, J. DeVan, L. Ren +65

The total cross sections are important ingredients for the current and future neutrino oscillation experiments. We present measurements of the total charged-current neutrino and an…

hep-ex2016★ 12 cited

First evidence of coherent meson production in neutrino-nucleus scattering

Z. Wang, C. M. Marshall, L. Aliaga +68

Neutrino-induced charged-current coherent kaon production, , is a rare, inelastic electroweak process that brings a on shell and leaves the target…

hep-ex2016★ 161 cited

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…

hep-ex2016★ 63 cited

Cross sections for neutrino and antineutrino induced pion production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

C. L. McGivern, T. Le, B. Eberly +67

Separate samples of charged-current pion production events representing two semi-inclusive channels -CC() and -CC() have been obtained using neutrino an…

hep-ex2016★ 20 cited

Evidence for neutral-current diffractive neutral pion production from hydrogen in neutrino interactions on hydrocarbon

MINERvA Collaboration, J. Wolcott, L. Aliaga +68

The MINERvA experiment observes an excess of events containing electromagnetic showers relative to the expectation from Monte Carlo simulations in neutral-current neutrino interact…