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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 νμ charged-current single π0 production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

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Altinok O., Le T., Aliaga L., Bellantoni L., Bercellie A., Betancourt M., Bodek A., Bravar A., Budd H., Caceres Vera G.F.R., Cai T., Carneiro M.F., Da Motta H., Dytman S.A., Díaz G.A., Felix J., Fields L., Fine R., Gago A.M., Galindo R., Gallagher H., Ghosh A., Gran R., Han J.Y., Harris D.A., Kleykamp J., Kordosky M., Maher E., Manly S., Mann W.A., Marshall C.M., Martinez Caicedo D.A., McFarland K.S., McGowan A.M., Messerly B., Miller J., Mislivec A., Morfín J.G., Naples D., Nelson J.K., Norrick A., Nuruzzaman, Paolone V., Patrick C.E., Perdue G.N., Ramirez M.A., Ransome R.D., Ray H., Ren L., Rimal D., Rodrigues P.A., Ruterbories D., Schellman H., Sobczyk J.T., Solano Salinas C.J., Sultana M., Sánchez Falero S., Valencia E., Wolcott J., Yaeggy B.

Publicado 2017

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The semiexclusive channel νμ þ CH → μ−π0 þ nucleonðsÞ is analyzed using MINERvA exposed to the low-energy NuMI νμ beam with spectral peak at Eν ≃ 3 GeV. Differential cross sections for muon momentum and production angle, π0 kinetic energy and production angle, and for squared four-momentum transfer are reported, and the cross section σðEνÞ is obtained over the range 1.5 GeV ≤ Eν < 20 GeV. Results are compared to GENIE and NuWro predictions and to published MINERvA cross sections for charged-current πþðπ0Þ production by νμðν¯μÞ neutrinos. Disagreements between data and simulation are observed at very low and relatively high values for muon angle and for Q2 that may reflect shortfalls in modeling of interactions on carbon. For π0 kinematic distributions, however, the data are consistent with the simulation and provide support for generator treatments o...

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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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Measurements of the inclusive neutrino and antineutrino charged current cross sections in MINERvA using the low- ν flux method

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Devan J., Ren L., Aliaga L., Altinok O., Bellantoni L., Bercellie A., Betancourt M., Bodek A., Budd H., Cai T., Carneiro M.F., Da Motta H., Dytman S.A., Díaz G.A., Eberly B., Endress E., Felix J., Fields L., Fine R., Gago A.M., Galindo R., Gallagher H., Ghosh A., Gran R., Harris D.A., Higuera A., Hurtado K., 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, Paolone V., Park J., Patrick C.E., Perdue G.N., Ramirez M.A., Ransome R.D., Ray H., Rimal D., Rodrigues P.A., Ruterbories D., Schellman H., Solano Salinas C.J., Tice B.G., Valencia E., Wolcott J., Wospakrik M.

Publicado 2016

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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 antineutrino cross sections on scintillator (CH) in the NuMI low-energy beamline using an in situ prediction of the shape of the flux as a function of neutrino energy from 2–50 GeV. This flux prediction takes advantage of the fact that neutrino and antineutrino interactions with low nuclear recoil energy (ν) have a nearly constant cross section as a function of incident neutrino energy. This measurement is the lowest energy application of the low-ν flux technique, the first time it has been used in the NuMI antineutrino beam configuration, and demonstrates that the technique is applicable to future neutrino beams operating at multi-GeVenergies. The cross section measurements presented are the most precise mea...

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Measurement of total and differential cross sections of neutrino and antineutrino coherent π ± production on carbon

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Mislivec A., Higuera A., Aliaga L., Bellantoni L., Bercellie A., Betancourt M., BodeK A., Bravar A., Budd H., Caceres G.F.R.V., Cai T., Martinez Caicedo D.A., Carneiro M.F., Chavarria E., Da Motta H., Dytman S.A., Díaz G.A., Felix J., Fields L., Fine R., Gago A.M., Galindo R., Gallagher H., Ghosh A., Gran R., Harris D.A., Hurtado K., Jena D., Kleykamp J., Kordosky M., Le T., Maher E., Manly S., Mann W.A., Marshall C.M., McFarland K.S., Messerly B., Miller J., Morfín J.G., Mousseau J., Naples D., Nelson J.K., Nguyen C., NorricK A., Nuruzzaman, Paolone V., Perdue G.N., Ramírez M.A., Ransome R.D., Ray H., Ren L., Rimal D., Rodrigues P.A., Ruterbories D., Schellman H., Solano Salinas C.J., Sultana M., Sánchez Falero S., Tagg N., Valencia E., WospakriK M., Yaeggy B., Zavala G.

Publicado 2018

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Neutrino induced coherent charged pion production on nuclei, ν¯μA → μ π∓A, is a rare inelastic interaction in which the four-momentum squared transferred to the nucleus is nearly zero, leaving it intact. We identify such events in the scintillator of MINERvA by reconstructing jtj from the final state pion and muon momenta and by removing events with evidence of energetic nuclear recoil or production of other final state particles. We measure the total neutrino and antineutrino cross sections as a function of neutrino energy between 2 and 20 GeV and measure flux integrated differential cross sections as a function of Q2, Eπ, and θπ. The Q2 dependence and equality of the neutrino and antineutrino cross sections at finite Q2 provide a confirmation of Adler’s partial conservation of axial current hypothesis.

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Neutron measurements from antineutrino hydrocarbon reactions

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Elkins, M, Cai, T, Chaves, J, Kleykamp, J, Akbar, F, Albin, L, Aliaga, L, Andrade, DA, Ascencio, MV, Bashyal, A, Bellantoni, L, Bercellie, A, Betancourt, M, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Budd, H, Caceres, G, Carneiro, MF, Coplowe, D, da Motta, H, Dytman, SA, Diaz, GA, Felix, J, Fields, L, Filkins, A, Fine, R, Fiza, N, Gago, AM, Galindo, R, Ghosh, A, Gran, R, Han, JY, Habig, A, Harris, DA, Henry, S, Jena, S, Jena, D, Kordosky, M, Last, D, Le, T, Leistico, JR, Lopez, AG, Lovlein, A, Lu, XG, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, Mauger, C, McGowan, AM, McFarland, KS, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Morfin, JG, Mousseau, J, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Nguyen, C, Norrick, A, Nuruzzaman, Olivier, A, Paolone, V, Perdue, GN, Ramirez, MA, Ransome, RD, Ray, H, Rimal, D, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Schellman, H, Salinas, CJS, Su, H, Syrotenko, VS, Falero, SS, Valencia, E, Wolcott, J, Yaeggy, B

Publicado 2019

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This document was prepared by members of the MINERvA Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. These resources included support for the MINERvA construction project, and support for construction also was 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 Grants No. PHY-1306944 and No. PHY-1607381. We are grateful for the United States National Science Foundation's decade of direct support to the Soudan Underground Lab outreach program, including Grant No. PHY-1212342; this analysis originated as ...

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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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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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Measurement of Final-State Correlations in Neutrino Muon-Proton Mesonless Production on Hydrocarbon at Eν ©=3 GeV

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Lu X.-G., Betancourt M., Walton T., Akbar F., Aliaga L., Altinok O., Andrade D.A., Ascencio M., Bellantoni L., Bercellie A., Bodek A., Bravar A., Budd H., Cai T., Carneiro M.F., Chaves J., Coplowe D., Da Motta H., Dytman S.A., Díaz G.A., Felix J., Fields L., Fine R., Gago A.M., Galindo R., Gallagher H., Ghosh A., Gran R., Harris D.A., Henry S., Jena S., Jena D., Kleykamp J., Kordosky M., Le T., Maher E., Manly S., Mann W.A., Marshall C.M., McFarland K.S., McGowan A.M., Messerly B., Miller J., Mislivec A., Morfín J.G., Mousseau J., Naples D., Nelson J.K., Nguyen C., Norrick A., Nuruzzaman, Olivier A., Paolone V., Patrick C.E., Perdue G.N., Ramírez M.A., Ransome R.D., Ren L., Rimal D., Rodrigues P.A., Ruterbories D., Schellman H., Sobczyk J.T., Salinas C.J.S., Su H., Sultana M., Valencia E., Wark D., Weber A., Wolcott J., Wospakrik M., Yaeggy B., (MINERvA Collaboration)

Publicado 2018

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Final-state kinematic imbalances are measured in mesonless production of νμ þ A → μ− þ p þ X in the MINERvA tracker. Initial- and final-state nuclear effects are probed using the direction of the μ−-p transverse momentum imbalance and the initial-state momentum of the struck neutron. Differential cross sections are compared to predictions based on current approaches to medium modeling. These models underpredict the cross section at intermediate intranuclear momentum transfers that generally exceed the Fermi momenta. As neutrino interaction models need to correctly incorporate the effect of the nucleus in order to predict neutrino energy resolution in oscillation experiments, this result points to a region of phase space where additional cross section strength is needed in current models, and demonstrates a new technique that would be suitable for use in fine-grained liquid a...

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Antineutrino Charged-Current Reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer

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Gran R., Betancourt M., Elkins M., Rodrigues P.A., Akbar F., Aliaga L., Andrade D.A., Bashyal A., Bellantoni L., Bercellie A., Bodek A., Bravar A., Budd H., Vera G.F.R.C., Cai T., Carneiro M.F., Coplowe D., Da Motta H., Dytman S.A., Díaz G.A., Felix J., Fields L., Fine R., Gallagher H., Ghosh A., Haider H., Han J.Y., Harris D.A., Henry S., Jena D., Kleykamp J., Kordosky M., Le T., Leistico J.R., Lovlein A., Lu X.-G., Maher E., Manly S., Mann W.A., Marshall C.M., McFarland K.S., McGowan A.M., Messerly B., Miller J., Mislivec A., Morfín J.G., Mousseau J., Naples D., Nelson J.K., Nguyen C., Norrick A., Nuruzzaman, Olivier A., Paolone V., Patrick C.E., Perdue G.N., Ramírez M.A., Ransome R.D., Ray H., Ren L., Rimal D., Ruterbories D., Schellman H., Salinas C.J.S., Su H., Sultana M., Falero S.S., Valencia E., Wolcott J., Wospakrik M., Yaeggy B., (MINERvA Collaboration)

Publicado 2018

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We report on multinucleon effects in low momentum transfer (< 0.8 GeV=c) antineutrino interactions on plastic (CH) scintillator. These data are from the 2010–2011 antineutrino phase of the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab. The hadronic energy spectrum of this inclusive sample is well described when a screening effect at a low energy transfer and a two-nucleon knockout process are added to a relativistic Fermi gas model of quasielastic, Δ resonance, and higher resonance processes. In this analysis, model elements introduced to describe previously published neutrino results have quantitatively similar benefits for this antineutrino sample. We present the results as a double-differential cross section to accelerate the investigation of alternate models for antineutrino scattering off nuclei.

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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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Measurement of quasielastic-like neutrino scattering at ∼3.5 GeV on a hydrocarbon target

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Ruterbories D., Hurtado K., Osta J., Akbar F., Aliaga L., Andrade D.A., Ascencio M.V., Bashyal A., Bercellie A., Betancourt M., Bodek A., Budd H., Caceres G., Cai T., Carneiro M.F., Chaves J., Coplowe D., Da Motta H., Dytman S.A., Díaz G.A., Felix J., Fields L., Filkins A., Fine R., Gago A.M., Galindo R., Ghosh A., Gran R., Han J.Y., Harris D.A., Henry S., Jena S., Jena D., Kleykamp J., Kordosky M., Last D., Le T., Lu X.-G., Maher E., Manly S., Mann W.A., Mauger C., McFarland K.S., McGowan A.M., Messerly B., Miller J., Morfín J.G., Mousseau J., Naples D., Nelson J.K., Nguyen C., Norrick A., Nuruzzaman, Olivier A., Paolone V., Patrick C.E., Perdue G.N., Ramírez M.A., Ransome R.D., Ray H., Rimal D., Rodrigues P.A., Schellman H., Sobczyk J.T., Solano Salinas C.J., Su H., Sultana M., Syrotenko V.S., Valencia E., Wolcott J., Wospakrik M., Wret C., Yaeggy B., Zazueta L., (MINERnuA Collaboration)

Publicado 2019

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MINERvA presents a new analysis of neutrino induced quasielastic-like interactions in a hydrocarbon tracking target. We report a double-differential cross section using the muon transverse and longitudinal momentum. In addition, differential cross sections as a function of the square of the four-momentum transferred and the neutrino energy are calculated using a quasielastic hypothesis. Finally, an analysis of energy deposited near the interaction vertex is presented. These results are compared to modified genie predictions as well as a NuWro prediction. All results use a data set produced by 3.34×1020 protons on target creating a neutrino beam with a peak energy of approximately 3.5 GeV. .

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

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Ren L., Aliaga L., Altinok O., Bellantoni L., Bercellie A., Betancourt M., Bodek A., Bravar A., Budd H., Cai T., Carneiro M.F., Da Motta H., Devan J., Dytman S.A., Díaz G.A., Eberly B., Endress E., Felix J., Fields L., Fine R., Gago A.M., Galindo R., Gallagher H., Ghosh A., Golan T., Gran R., Han J.Y., Harris D.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, Paolone V., Park J., Patrick C.E., Perdue G.N., Ramírez M.A., Ransome R.D., Ray H., Rimal D., Rodrigues P.A., Ruterbories D., Schellman H., Solano Salinas C.J., Sultana M., Sánchez Falero S., Valencia E., Walton T., Wolcott J., Wospakrik M., Yaeggy B.

Publicado 2017

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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 span the energy range 2–22 GeV and were performed using forward and reversed horn focusing modes of the Fermilab low-energy NuMI beam to obtain large neutrino and antineutrino samples. The flux is obtained using a subsample of charged-current events at low hadronic energy transfer along with precise higher energy external neutrino cross section data overlapping with our energy range between 12–22 GeV.We also report onthe antineutrino-neutrino cross section ratio, RCC, which does not rely on external normalization information. Our ratio measurement, obtained within the same experiment using the same technique, benefits from the cancellation of common sample systematic uncertainties and reaches a precision of �...

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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 �...