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Arachne-A web-based event viewer for MINERvA

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Tagg, N, Brangham, J, Chvojka, J, Clairemont, M, Day, M, Eberly, B, Felix, J, Fields, L, Gago, AM, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Kordosky, M, Lee, H, Maggi, G, Maher, E, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, McFarland, KS, McGowan, AM, Mislivec, A, Mousseau, J, Osmanov, B, Osta, J, Paolone, V, Perdue, G, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Schellman, H, Schmitz, DW, Simon, C, Salinas, CJS, Tice, BG, Walding, J, Walton, T, Wolcott, J, Zhang, D, Ziemer, BP

Publicado 2012

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Neutrino interaction events in the detector are visually represented with a web-based tool called Arachne. Data are retrieved from a central server via AJAX, and client-side JavaScript draws images into the user's browser window using the draft HTML 5 standard. These technologies allow neutrino interactions to be viewed by anyone with a web browser, allowing for easy hand-scanning of particle interactions. Arachne has been used in to evaluate neutrino data in a prototype detector, to tune reconstruction algorithms, and for public outreach and education.

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Arachne-A web-based event viewer for MINERνA

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Tagg N., Brangham J., Chvojka J., Clairemont M., Day M., Eberly B., Felix J., Fields L., Gago A.M., Gran R., Harris D.A., Kordosky M., Lee H., Maggi G., Maher E., Mann W.A., Marshall C.M., McFarland K.S., McGowan A.M., Mislivec A., Mousseau J., Osmanov B., Osta J., Paolone V., Perdue G., Ransome R.D., Ray H., Schellman H., Schmitz D.W., Simon C., Solano Salinas C.J., Tice B.G., Walding J., Walton T., Wolcott J., Zhang D., Ziemer B.P.

Publicado 2012

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Neutrino interaction events in the MINERνA detector are visually represented with a web-based tool called Arachne. Data are retrieved from a central server via AJAX, and client-side JavaScript draws images into the users browser window using the draft HTML 5 "standard". These technologies allow neutrino interactions to be viewed by anyone with a web browser, allowing for easy hand-scanning of particle interactions. Arachne has been used in MINERνA to evaluate neutrino data in a prototype detector, to tune reconstruction algorithms, and for public outreach and education. © 2012 Published by Elsevier B.V.

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Neutrino flux predictions for the NuMI beam

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Aliaga, L, Kordosky, M, Golan, T, Altinok, O, Bellantoni, L, Bercellie, A, Betancourt, M, Bravar, A, Budd, H, Carneiro, MF, Dytman, S, Diaz, GA, Endress, E, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fine, R, Gago, AM, Galindo, R, Gallagher, H, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Higuera, A, Hurtado, K, Kiveni, M, Kleykamp, J, Le, T, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, Caicedo, DAM, McFarland, KS, McGivern, CL, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfin, JG, Mousseau, J, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Norrick, A, Paolone, V, Park, J, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Ren, L, Rimal, D, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Schellman, H, Salinas, CJS, Falero, SS, Tice, BG, Valencia, E, Walton, T, Wolcott, J, Wospakrik, M, Zhang, D

Publicado 2016

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This work was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Award No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 which included the MINERvA construction project. Construction support was also granted by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for participating scientists was provided by NSF and DOE (USA), Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior fundacao do Ministerio da Educacao (CAPES) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) (Brazil), Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CoNaCyT) (Mexico), Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT), programs including Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico (FONDECYT) (Chile), by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Tecnologica (CONCYTE...

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Measurement of Neutral-Current K+ Production by Neutrinos using MINERvA

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Marshall, CM, Aliaga, L, Altinok, O, Bellantoni, L, Bercellie, A, Betancourt, M, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Cai, T, Carneiro, MF, da Motta, H, Dytman, SA, Diaz, GA, Dunkman, M, Eberly, B, Endress, E, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fine, R, Gago, AM, Galindo, R, Gallagher, H, Ghosh, A, Golan, T, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Higuera, A, Hurtado, K, Kleykamp, J, Kordosky, M, Le, T, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Caicedo, DAM, McFarland, KS, McGivern, CL, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfin, JG, Mousseau, J, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Norrick, A, Nuruzzaman, Paolone, V, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Ramirez, MA, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Ren, L, Rimal, D, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Schmitz, DW, Salinas, CJS, Sultana, M, Falero, SS, Valencia, E, Walton, T, Wolcott, J, Wospakrik, M, Yaeggy, B, Zhang, D

Publicado 2017

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Neutral-current production of Kþ by atmospheric neutrinos is a background in searches for the proton decay p → Kþν¯. Reactions such as νp → νKþΛ are indistinguishable from proton decays when the decay products of the Λ are below detection threshold. Events with Kþ are identified in MINERvA by reconstructing the timing signature of a Kþ decay at rest. A sample of 201 neutrino-induced neutral-current Kþ events is used to measure differential cross sections with respect to the Kþ kinetic energy, and the nonKþ hadronic visible energy. An excess of events at low hadronic visible energy is observed relative to the prediction of the NEUT event generator. Good agreement is observed with the cross section prediction of the GENIE generator. A search for photons from π0 decay, which would veto a neutral-current Kþ event in a proton decay search, is performed, and a 2σ deficit o...

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Cross sections for nu(mu) and (nu)over-bar(mu) induced pion production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

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McGivern, CL, Le, T, Eberly, B, Aliaga, L, Altinok, O, Bellantoni, L, Bercellie, A, Betancourt, M, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Budd, H, Cai, T, Carneiro, MF, Christy, ME, da Motta, H, Dytman, SA, Diaz, GA, Endress, E, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fine, R, Galindo, R, Gallagher, H, Golan, T, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Higuera, A, Hurtado, K, Kiveni, M, Kleykamp, J, Kordosky, M, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, Caicedo, DAM, McFarland, KS, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfin, JG, Mousseau, J, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Norrick, A, Nuruzzaman, Paolone, V, Park, J, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Rakotondravohitra, L, Ramirez, MA, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Ren, L, Rimal, D, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Schellman, H, Schmitz, DW, Simon, C, Salinas, CJS, Falero, SS, Tice, BG, Valencia, E, Walton, T, Wolcott, J, Wospakrik, M, Zhang, D

Publicado 2016

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This work was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 which included the MINERvA construction project. Construction support was also granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Award No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for participating scientists was provided by NSF and DOE (U.S.A.), by CAPES and CNPq (Brazil), by CoNaCyT (Mexico), by CONICYT (Chile), by CONCYTEC, DGI-PUCP and IDI/IGI-UNI (Peru), and by Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF). We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data. We acknowledge the dedicated work of the Fermilab staff responsible for the operation and maintenance of the beam line and detector, and we thank the Fermilab Computing Division for support of data processing.

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Tuning the GENIE pion production model with MINERvA data

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Stowell, P, Pickering, L, Willcinson, C, Wret, C, Akbar, F, Andrade, DA, Ascencio, MV, Bellantoni, L, Bercellie, A, Betancourt, M, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Budd, H, Caceres, G, Cai, T, Cameiro, MF, Chaves, J, da Motta, H, Dytman, SA, Diaz, GA, Felix, J, Fields, L, Filkins, A, Fine, R, Fiza, N, Galindo, R, Gallagher, H, Ghosh, A, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Henry, S, Jena, S, Jena, D, Kleykamp, J, Kordosky, M, Last, D, Le, T, Lu, XG, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, McFarland, KS, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Morfin, JG, Mousseau, J, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Nguyen, C, Norrick, A, Nuruzzaman, Paolone, V, Perdue, GN, Ramirez, MA, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Rimal, D, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Schellman, H, Salinas, CJS, Su, H, Sultana, M, Syrotenko, VS, Valencia, E, Wolcott, J, Wospakrik, M, Yaeggy, B, Zazueta, L, Zhang, D

Publicado 2019

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CONCYTEC, Direccion de Gestion de la Investigacion-Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (DGI-PUCP), and Vicerrectorado de Investigacion-Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria (VRI-UNI) (Peru); and by the Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF); NCN Opus Grant No. 2016/21/B/ST2/01092 (Poland). We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data. Finally, we thank the staff of Fermilab for support of the beam line, the detector, and the computing infrastructure.

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Measurement of Coherent Production of pi(+/-) in Neutrino and Antineutrino Beams on Carbon from E-upsilon of 1.5 to 20 GeV

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Higuera, A, Mislivec, A, Aliaga, L, Altinok, O, Bercellie, A, Betancourt, M, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Brooks, WK, Budd, H, Butkevich, A, Carneiro, MF, Castromonte, CM, Christy, ME, Chvojka, J, da Motta, H, Devan, J, Dytman, SA, Diaz, GA, Eberly, B, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fine, R, Fiorentini, GA, Gallagher, H, Gomez, A, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Hurtado, K, Kleykamp, J, Kordosky, M, Le, T, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, Caicedo, DAM, McFarland, KS, McGivern, CL, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Morfin, JG, Mousseau, J, Muhlbeier, T, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Norrick, A, Osta, J, Palomino, JL, Paolone, V, Park, J, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Ren, L, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Schellman, H, Schmitz, DW, Snider, FD, Salinas, CJS, Tagg, N, Tice, BG, Valencia, E, Walton, T, Wolcott, J, Wospakrik, M, Zavala, G, Zhang, D, Ziemer, BP

Publicado 2014

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This work was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359, which included the MINERvA construction project. Construction support was also granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for participating scientists was provided by NSF and DOE (USA), by CAPES and CNPq (Brazil), by CoNaCyT (Mexico), by CONICYT (Chile), by CONCYTEC, DGI-PUCP and IDI/IGI-UNI (Peru), by Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF), and by RAS and the Russian Ministry of Education and Science (Russia). We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data. Finally, we thank the staff of Fermilab for support of the beam line and the detector.

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Measurement of partonic nuclear effects in deep-inelastic neutrino scattering using MINERvA

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Mousseau, J, Wospakrik, M, Aliaga, L, Altinok, O, Bellantoni, L, Bercellie, A, Betancourt, M, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Budd, H, Cai, T, Carneiro, MF, Christy, ME, Chvojka, J, da Motta, H, Devan, J, Dytman, SA, Diaz, GA, Eberly, B, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fine, R, Gago, AM, Galindo, R, Gallagher, H, Ghosh, A, Golan, T, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Higuera, A, Hurtado, K, Kiveni, M, Kleykamp, J, Kordosky, M, Le, T, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, Caicedo, DAM, McFarland, KS, McGivern, CL, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfin, JG, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Norrick, A, Nuruzzaman, Osta, J, Paolone, V, Park, J, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Rakotondravohitra, L, Ramirez, MA, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Ren, L, Rimal, D, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Schellman, H, Schmitz, DW, Salinas, CJS, Tagg, N, Tice, BG, Valencia, E, Walton, T, Wolcott, J, Zavala, G, Zhang, D

Publicado 2016

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The MINERvA Collaboration reports a novel study of neutrino-nucleus charged-current deep inelastic scattering (DIS) using the same neutrino beam incident on targets of polystyrene, graphite, iron, and lead. Results are presented as ratios of C, Fe, and Pb to CH. The ratios of total DIS cross sections as a function of neutrino energy and flux-integrated differential cross sections as a function of the Bjorken scaling variable x are presented in the neutrino-energy range of 5-50 GeV. Based on the predictions of charged-lepton scattering ratios, good agreement is found between the data and prediction at medium x and low neutrino energy. However, the ratios appear to be below predictions in the vicinity of the nuclear shadowing region, x<0.1. This apparent deficit, reflected in the DIS cross-section ratio at high Eν, is consistent with previous MINERvA observations [B. Tice (MINERvA Collabo...

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Measurement of muon plus proton final states in nu(mu) interactions on hydrocarbon at < E-nu >=4.2 GeV

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Walton, T, Betancourt, M, Aliaga, L, Altinok, O, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Budd, H, Bustamante, MJ, Butkevich, A, Caicedo, DAM, Carneiro, MF, Castromonte, CM, Christy, ME, Chvojka, J, da Motta, H, Datta, M, Devan, J, Dytman, SA, Diaz, GA, Eberly, B, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fine, R, Fiorentini, GA, Gago, AM, Gallagher, H, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Higuera, A, Hurtado, K, Kleykamp, J, Kordosky, M, Kulagin, SA, Le, T, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, Mari, CM, McFarland, KS, McGivern, CL, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfin, JG, Mousseau, J, Muhlbeier, T, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Norrick, A, Osta, J, Paolone, V, Park, J, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Rakotondravohitra, L, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Ren, L, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Schellman, H, Schmitz, DW, Simon, C, Snider, FD, Sobczyk, JT, Salinas, CJS, Tagg, N, Tice, BG, Valencia, E, Wolcott, J, Wospakrik, M, Zavala, G, Zhang, D, Ziemer, BP

Publicado 2015

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A study of charged-current muon neutrino scattering on hydrocarbon (CH) in which the final state includes a muon, at least one proton, and no pions is presented. Although this signature has the topology of neutrino quasielastic scattering from neutrons, the event sample contains contributions from quasielastic and inelastic processes where pions are absorbed in the nucleus. The analysis accepts events with muon production angles up to 70◦ and proton kinetic energies greater than 110 MeV. The cross section, when based completely on hadronic kinematics, is well-described by a relativistic Fermi gas nuclear model including the neutrino event generator modeling for inelastic processes and particle transportation through the nucleus. This is in contrast to the quasielastic cross section based on muon kinematics, which is best described by an extended model that incorporates multi-nucleon co...

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Measurement of Ratios of nu(mu) Charged-Current Cross Sections on C, Fe, and Pb to CH at Neutrino Energies 2-20 GeV

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Tice, BG, Datta, M, Mousseau, J, Aliaga, L, Altinok, O, Sazo, MGB, Betancourt, M, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Brooks, WK, Budd, H, Bustamante, MJ, Butkevich, A, Caicedo, DAM, Castromonte, CM, Christy, ME, Chvojka, J, da Motta, H, Devan, J, Dytman, SA, Diaz, GA, Eberly, B, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fiorentini, GA, Gago, AM, Gallagher, H, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Higuera, A, Hurtado, K, Jerkins, M, Kafka, T, Kordosky, M, Kulagin, SA, Le, T, Maggi, G, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, Mari, CM, McFarland, KS, McGivern, CL, McGowan, AM, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfin, JG, Muhlbeier, T, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Norrick, A, Osta, J, Palomino, JL, Paolone, V, Park, J, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Rakotondravohitra, L, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Ren, L, Rodrigues, PA, Savage, DG, Schellman, H, Schmitz, DW, Simon, C, Snider, FD, Salinas, CJS, Tagg, N, Valencia, E, Velasquez, JP, Walton, T, Wolcott, J, Zavala, G, Zhang, D, Ziemer, BP

Publicado 2014

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This work was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 which included the MINERvA construction project. Construction support also was granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for participating scientists was provided by NSF and DOE (USA) by CAPES and CNPq (Brazil), by CoNaCyT (Mexico), by CONICYT (Chile), by CONCYTEC, DGI-PUCP and IDI/IGI-UNI (Peru), by Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF), by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and by RAS and the Russian Ministry of Education and Science (Russia). We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data. Finally, we thank the staff of Fermilab for support of the beam line and detector.

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Identification of Nuclear Effects in Neutrino-Carbon Interactions at Low Three-Momentum Transfer

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Rodrigues, PA, Demgen, J, Miltenberger, E, Aliaga, L, Altinok, O, Bellantoni, L, Bercellie, A, Betancourt, M, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Budd, H, Cai, T, Carneiro, MF, Chvojka, J, Devan, J, Dytman, SA, Diaz, GA, Eberly, B, Elkins, M, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fine, R, Gago, AM, Galindo, R, Gallagher, H, Ghosh, A, Golan, T, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Higuera, A, Hurtado, K, Kiveni, M, Kleykamp, J, Kordosky, M, Le, T, Leistico, JR, Lovlein, A, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, Caicedo, DAM, McFarland, KS, McGivern, CL, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfin, JG, Mousseau, J, Muhlbeier, T, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Norrick, A, Nuruzzaman, Osta, J, Paolone, V, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Ramirez, MA, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Ren, L, Rimal, D, Ruterbories, D, Schellman, H, Schmitz, DW, Salinas, CJS, Tagg, N, Tice, BG, Valencia, E, Walton, T, Wolcott, J, Wospakrik, M, Zavala, G, Zhang, D

Publicado 2016

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We are grateful to the authors of the RPA and 2p2h models for making the code for their calculations available for study and incorporation into this analysis. This work was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359, which included the MINERvA construction project. Construction support was also granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for scientists for this specific publication was granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-1306944. Support for participating scientists was provided by NSF and DOE (USA) by CAPES and CNPq (Brazil), by CoNaCyT (Mexico), by CONICYT (Chile), by CONCYTEC, DGI-PUCP and IDI/IGI-UNI (Peru), and by Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF). We thank the MINOS Collaborati...

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Measurement of Electron Neutrino Quasielastic and Quasielasticlike Scattering on Hydrocarbon at < E-v >=3.6 GeV

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Wolcott, J, Aliaga, L, Altinok, O, Bellantoni, L, Bercellie, A, Betancourt, M, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Budd, H, Cai, T, Carneiro, MF, Chvojka, J, da Motta, H, Devan, J, Dytman, SA, Diaz, GA, Eberly, B, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fine, R, Gago, AM, Galindo, R, Gallagher, H, Ghosh, A, Golan, T, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Higuera, A, Kiveni, M, Kleykamp, J, Kordosky, M, Le, T, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, Caicedo, DAM, McFarland, KS, McGivern, CL, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfin, JG, Mousseau, J, Muhlbeier, T, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Norrick, A, Osta, J, Paolone, V, Park, J, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Rakotondravohitra, L, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Ren, L, Rimal, D, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Salazar, G, Schellman, H, Schmitz, DW, Salinas, CJS, Tagg, N, Tice, BG, Valencia, E, Walton, T, Wospakrik, M, Zavala, G, Zegarra, A, Zhang, D, Ziemer, BP

Publicado 2016

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CONCYTEC, DGI-PUCP, and IDI/IGI-UNI (Peru), by Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF), and by RAS and the Russian Ministry of Education and Science (Russia). We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data. We acknowledge the dedicated work of the Fermilab staff responsible for the operation and maintenance of the beam line and detector.

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Measurement of neutrino flux from neutrino-electron elastic scattering

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Park J., Aliaga L., Altinok O., Bellantoni L., Bercellie A., Betancourt M., Bodek A., Bravar A., Budd H., Cai T., Carneiro M.F., Christy M.E., Chvojka J., Da Motta H., Dytman S.A., Díaz G.A., Eberly B., Felix J., Fields L., Fine R., Gago A.M., Galindo R., Ghosh A., Golan T., Gran R., Harris D.A., Higuera A., Kleykamp J., Kordosky M., Le T., Maher E., Manly S., Mann W.A., Marshall C.M., Martinez Caicedo D.A., McFarland K.S., McGivern C.L., McGowan A.M., Messerly B., Miller J., Mislivec A., Morfín J.G., Mousseau J., Naples D., Nelson J.K., Norrick A., Nuruzzaman, Osta J., Paolone V., Patrick C.E., Perdue G.N., Rakotondravohitra L., Ramirez M.A., Ray H., Ren L., Rimal D., Rodrigues P.A., Ruterbories D., Schellman H., Solano Salinas C.J., Tagg N., Tice B.G., Valencia E., Walton T., Wolcott J., Wospakrik M., Zavala G., Zhang D.

Publicado 2016

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Muon-neutrino elastic scattering on electrons is an observable neutrino process whose cross section is precisely known. Consequently a measurement of this process in an accelerator-based νμ beam can improve the knowledge of the absolute neutrino flux impinging upon the detector; typically this knowledge is limited to ∼10% due to uncertainties in hadron production and focusing. We have isolated a sample of 135±17 neutrino-electron elastic scattering candidates in the segmented scintillator detector of MINERvA, after subtracting backgrounds and correcting for efficiency. We show how this sample can be used to reduce the total uncertainty on the NuMI νμ flux from 9% to 6%. Our measurement provides a flux constraint that is useful to other experiments using the NuMI beam, and this technique is applicable to future neutrino beams operating at multi-GeV energies. © 2016 American Physic...

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Single neutral pion production by charged-current ν-μ interactions on hydrocarbon at 〈E<inf>ν</inf>〉=3.6 GeV

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Le T., Palomino J.L., Aliaga L., Altinok O., Bercellie A., Bodek A., Bravar A., Brooks W.K., Butkevich A., Martinez Caicedo D.A., Carneiro M.F., Christy M.E., Chvojka J., da Motta H., Devan J., Dytman S.A., Díaz G.A., Eberly B., Felix J., Fields L., Fine R., Gago A.M., Gallagher H., Gran R., Harris D.A., Higuera A., Hurtado K., Kordosky M., Maher E., Manly S., Mann W.A., Marshall C.M., McFarland K.S., McGivern C.L., McGowan A.M., Miller J., Morfín J.G., Mousseau J., Nelson J.K., Norrick A., Osta J., Paolone V., Park J., Patrick C.E., Perdue G.N., Rakotondravohitra L., Ransome R.D., Ray H., Ren L., Rodrigues P.A., Ruterbories D., Schellman H., Schmitz D.W., Sobczyk J.T., Solano Salinas C.J., Tagg N., Tice B.G., Valencia E., Walton T., Wolcott J., Yepes-Ramirez H., Zavala G., Zhang D., Ziemer B.P.

Publicado 2015

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Single neutral pion production via muon antineutrino charged-current interactions in plastic scintillator (CH) is studied using the MINERvA detector exposed to the NuMI low-energy, wideband antineutrino beam at Fermilab. Measurement of this process constrains models of neutral pion production in nuclei, which is important because the neutral-current analog is a background for appearance oscillation experiments. The differential cross sections for momentum and production angle, for events with a single observed and no charged pions, are presented and compared to model predictions. These results comprise the first measurement of the kinematics for this process.

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Measurement of K+ production in charged-current nu(mu) interactions

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Marshall, CM, Aliaga, L, Altinok, O, Bellantoni, L, Bercellie, A, Betancourt, M, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Budd, H, Cai, T, Carneiro, MF, Chvojka, J, da Motta, H, Devan, J, Dytman, SA, Diaz, GA, Eberly, B, Endress, E, Felix, J, Fields, L, Filkins, A, Fine, R, Gago, AM, Galindo, R, Gallagher, H, Ghosh, A, Golan, T, Gran, R, Griswold, S, Harris, DA, Higuera, A, Hurtado, K, Kiveni, M, Kleykamp, J, Kordosky, M, Le, T, Maher, E, Majoros, I, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Caicedo, DAM, McFarland, KS, McGivern, CL, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfin, JG, Mousseau, J, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Norrick, A, Osta, J, Paolone, V, Park, J, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Rakotondravohitra, L, Ramirez, MA, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Ren, L, Rimal, D, Rodrigues, PA, Rosenberg, M, Ruterbories, D, Schellman, H, Schmitz, DW, Shadler, LA, Simon, C, Salinas, CJS, Sanchez, SF, Tice, BG, Valencia, E, Walton, T, Wang, Z, Watkins, P, Wiley, K, Wolcott, J, Wospakrik, M, Zhang, D

Publicado 2016

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This work was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 which included the MINERvA construction project. Construction support was also granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Award No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for participating scientists was provided by NSF and DOE (USA), by CAPES and CNPq (Brazil), by CoNaCyT (Mexico), by CONICYT (Chile), by CONCYTEC, DGI-PUCP and IDI/IGI-UNI (Peru), and by Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF). We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data. We acknowledge the dedicated work of the Fermilab staff responsible for the operation and maintenance of the NuMI beamline, MINERvA and MINOS detectors and the physical and software environments that support scientific computing at Fermilab.

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Evidence for Neutral-Current Diffractive π0 Production from Hydrogen in Neutrino Interactions on Hydrocarbon

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Wolcott J., Aliaga L., Altinok O., Bercellie A., Betancourt M., Bodek A., Bravar A., Budd H., Cai T., Carneiro M.F., Chvojka J., Da Motta H., Devan J., Dytman S.A., Díaz G.A., Eberly B., Endress E., Felix J., Fields L., Fine R., Galindo R., Gallagher H., Golan T., Gran R., Harris D.A., Higuera A., Hurtado K., Kiveni M., Kleykamp J., Kordosky M., Le T., Maher E., Manly S., Mann W.A., Marshall C.M., Martinez Caicedo D.A., McFarland K.S., McGivern C.L., McGowan A.M., Messerly B., Miller J., Mislivec A., Morfín J.G., Mousseau J., Naples D., Nelson J.K., Norrick A., Nuruzzaman, Osta J., Paolone V., Park J., Patrick C.E., Perdue G.N., Rakotondravohitra L., Ramirez M.A., Ray H., Ren L., Rimal D., Rodrigues P.A., Ruterbories D., Schellman H., Schmitz D.W., Solano Salinas C.J., Sánchez Falero S., Tagg N., Tice B.G., Valencia E., Walton T., Wospakrik M., Zhang D.

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The MINERvA experiment observes an excess of events containing electromagnetic showers relative to the expectation from Monte Carlo simulations in neutral-current neutrino interactions with mean beam energy of 4.5 GeV on a hydrocarbon target. The excess is characterized and found to be consistent with neutral-current π0 production with a broad energy distribution peaking at 7 GeV and a total cross section of 0.26 0.02ðstat.Þ 0.08ðsys:Þ × 10−39 cm2. The angular distribution, electromagnetic shower energy, and spatial distribution of the energy depositions of the excess are consistent with expectations from neutrino neutral-current diffractive π0 production from hydrogen in the hydrocarbon target. These data comprise the first direct experimental observation and constraint for a reaction that poses an important background process in neutrino-oscillation experiments searching for �...

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Charged pion production in nu(mu) interactions on hydrocarbon at < E-nu >=4.0 GeV

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Eberly, B, Aliaga, L, Altinok, O, Sazo, MGB, Bellantoni, L, Betancourt, M, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Budd, H, Bustamante, MJ, Butkevich, A, Caicedo, DAM, Carneiro, MF, Christy, ME, Chvojka, J, da Motta, H, Datta, M, Devan, J, Diaz, GA, Dytman, SA, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fine, R, Fiorentini, GA, Gago, AM, Galindo, R, Gallagher, H, Golan, T, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Higuera, A, Hurtado, K, Kafka, T, Kleykamp, J, Kordosky, M, Le, T, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, McFarland, KS, McGivern, CL, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfin, JG, Mousseau, J, Muhlbeier, T, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Norrick, A, Osta, J, Palomino, JL, Paolone, V, Park, J, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Rakotondravohitra, L, Ramirez, MA, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Ren, L, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Salazar, G, Schellman, H, Schmitz, DW, Simon, C, Sobczyk, JT, Salinas, CJS, Tagg, N, Tice, BG, Valencia, E, Walton, T, Wolcott, J, Wospakrik, M, Zavala, G, Zegarra, A, Zhang, D, Ziemer, BP

Publicado 2015

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This work was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Award No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 which included the MINERvA construction project. Construction support also was granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for participating scientists was provided by the NSF and DOE (USA); CAPES and CNPq (Brazil); CoNaCyT (Mexico); CONICYT (Chile); CONCYTEC, DGI-PUCP and IDI/IGI-UNI (Peru); Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF); the Swiss National Science Foundation; and RAS and the Russian Ministry of Education and Science (Russia). We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data. Finally, we thank the staff of Fermilab for support of the beam line and detector.

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MINERvA neutrino detector response measured with test beam data

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Aliaga L., Altinok O., Araujo Del Castillo C., Bagby L., Bellantoni L., Bergan W.F., Bodek A., Bradford R., Bravar A., Budd H., Butkevich A., Martinez Caicedo D.A., Carneiro M.F., Christy M.E., Chvojka J., Da Motta H., Devan J., Díaz G.A., Dytman S.A., Eberly B., Felix J., Fields L., Fine R., Flight R., Gago A.M., Gingu C., Golan T., Gomez A., Gran R., Harris D.A., Higuera A., Howley I.J., Hurtado K., Kleykamp J., Kordosky M., Lanari M., Le T., Leister A.J., Lovlein A., Maher E., Mann W.A., Marshall C.M., McFarland K.S., McGivern C.L., McGowan A.M., Messerly B., Miller J., Miller W., Mislivec A., Morfín J.G., Mousseau J., Muhlbeier T., Naples D., Nelson J.K., Norrick A., Ochoa N., O'Connor C.D., Osmanov B., Osta J., Paolone V., Patrick C.E., Patrick L., Perdue G.N., Pérez Lara C.E., Rakotondravohitra L., Ray H., Ren L., Rodrigues P.A., Rubinov P., Rude C.R., Ruterbories D., Schellman H., Schmitz D.W., Solano Salinas C.J., Tagg N., Tice B.G., Urrutia Z., Valencia E., Walton T., Westerberg A., Wolcott J., Woodward N., Wospakrik M., Zavala G., Zhang D., Ziemer B.P.

Publicado 2015

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The MINERvA collaboration operated a scaled-down replica of thesolid scintillator tracking and sampling calorimeter regions of the MINERvA detector in a hadron test beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. This paper reports measurements with samples of protons, pions, and electrons from 0.35 to 2.0 GeV/c momentum. The calorimetric response to protons, pions, and electrons is obtained from these data. A measurement of the parameter in Birks' law and an estimate of the tracking efficiency are extracted from the proton sample. Overall the data are well described by a Geant4-based Monte Carlo simulation of the detector and particle interactions with agreements better than 4% for the calorimetric response, though some features of the data are not precisely modeled. These measurements are used to tune the MINERvA detector simulation and evaluate systematic uncertainties in support of the MINE...