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

Autor: MINERvA Collaboration, 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., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, 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., Salinas, C. J. Solano, Falero, S. Sánchez, Tagg, N., Tice, B. G., Valencia, E., Walton, T., Wospakrik, M., Zhang, D.

Publikováno v: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 111801 (2016)

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 exc

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01728

Measurement of Neutrino Flux from Neutrino-Electron Elastic Scattering

Autor: MINERvA Collaboration, 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., Diaz, 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., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, McFarland, K. S., McGivern, C. L., McGowan, A. M., Messerly, B., Miller, J., Mislivec, A., Morfin, 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., Salinas, C. J. Solano, Tagg, N., Tice, B. G., Valencia, E., Walton, T., Wolcott, J., Wospakrik, M., Zavala, G., Zhang, D.

Publikováno v: Phys. Rev. D 93, 112007 (2016)

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 $\nu_\mu$ beam can improve the knowledge of the absolute neutri

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07699

Measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at $\langle E_{\nu} \rangle $ = 3.6 GeV

Autor: MINERvA Collaboration, Wolcott, J., Altinok, O., Bellantoni, L., Bercellie, A., Betancourt, M., Bodek, A., Bravar, A., Budd, H., Carneiro, M. F., Chvojka, J., da Motta, H., Devan, J., Dytman, S. A., Diaz, G. A., Eberly, B., Felix, J., Fields, L., Fine, R., Galindo, R., Gallagher, H., Ghosh, A., Golan, T., Gran, R., Harris, D. A., Higuera, A., Kiveni, M., Kleykamp, J., Kordosky, M., Le, T., Maher, E., Manly, S., Mann, W. A., Marshall, C. M., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, McFarland, K. S., McGivern, C. L., McGowan, A. M., Messerly, B., Miller, J., Mislivec, A., Morfin, J. G., Mousseau, J., Muhlbeier, T., Naples, D., 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., Rimal, D., Rodrigues, P. A., Ruterbories, D., Schellman, H., Schmitz, D. W., Salinas, C. J. Solano, Tagg, N., Tice, B. G., Valencia, E., Walton, T., Wospakrik, M., Zavala, G., Zhang, D., Ziemer, B. P.

Publikováno v: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 081802 (2016)

The first direct measurement of electron-neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region of incident neutrino energy has been carried out using the MINERvA detector in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. The flux-in

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05729

MINERvA neutrino detector response measured with test beam data

Autor: MINERvA Collaboration, Aliaga, L., Altinok, O., Del Castillo, C. Araujo, Bagby, L., Bellantoni, L., Bergan, W. F., Bodek, A., Bradford, R., Bravar, A., Budd, H., Butkevich, A., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Carneiro, M. F., Christy, M. E., Chvojka, J., da Motta, H., Devan, J., Diaz, 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., Morfin, J. G., Mousseau, J., Muhlbeier, T., Naples, D., Nelson, J. K., Norrick, A., Ochoa, N., OConnor, C. D., Osmanov, B., Osta, J., Paolone, V., Patrick, C. E., Patrick, L., Perdue, G. N., Lara, C. E. Perez, Rakotondravohitra, L., Ramirez, M. A., Ray, H., Ren, L., Rodrigues, P. A., Rubinov, P., Rude, C. R., Ruterbories, D., Schellman, H., Schmitz, D. W., Salinas, C. J. Solano, 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.

The MINERvA collaboration operated a scaled-down replica of the solid scintillator tracking and sampling calorimeter regions of the MINERvA detector in a hadron test beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. This article reports measurements with samp

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.06431

Measurement of muon plus proton final states in $\nu_{\mu}$ Interactions on Hydrocarbon at $\langle$$E_{\nu}$$\rangle$ = 4.2 GeV

Autor: Walton, T., Betancourt, M., Aliaga, L., Altinok, O., Bodek, A., Bravar, A., Budd, H., Bustamante, M. J., Butkevich, A., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Carneiro, M. F., Castromonte, C. M., Christy, M. E., Chvojka, J., da Motta, H., Datta, M., Devan, J., Dytman, S. A., Díaz, G. A., Eberly, B., Felix, J., Fields, L., Fine, R., Fiorentini, G. A., Gago, A. M., Gallagher, H., Gran, R., Harris, D. A., Higuera, A., Hurtado, K., Kleykamp, J., Kordosky, M., Kulagin, S. A., Le, T., Maher, E., Manly, S., Mann, W. A., Marshall, C. M., Mari, C. Martin, McFarland, K. S., McGivern, C. L., McGowan, A. M., Messerly, B., Miller, J., Mislivec, A., Morfín, J. G., Mousseau, J., Muhlbeier, T., Naples, D., 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., Simon, C., Snider, F. D., Sobczyk, J. T., Salinas, C. J. Solano, Tagg, N., Tice, B. G., Valencia, E., Wolcott, J., Wospakrik, M., Zavala, G., Zhang, D., Ziemer, B. P.

Publikováno v: Phys. Rev. D 91, 071301 (2015)

A study of charged-current muon neutrino scattering on hydrocarbon in which the final state includes a muon and a proton and no pions is presented. Although this signature has the topology of neutrino quasielastic scattering from neutrons, the event

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4497