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1. Measurement of Final-State Correlations in Neutrino Muon-Proton Mesonless Production on Hydrocarbon at ⟨Eν⟩=3 GeV

Author

Lu, X-G, Betancourt, M, Walton, T, Akbar, F, Aliaga, L, Altinok, O, Andrade, DA, Ascencio, M, Bellantoni, L, Bercellie, A, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Budd, H, Cai, T, Carneiro, MF, Chaves, J, Coplowe, D, da Motta, H, Dytman, SA, Díaz, GA, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fine, R, Gago, AM, Galindo, R, Gallagher, H, Ghosh, A, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Henry, S, Jena, S, Jena, D, Kleykamp, J, Kordosky, M, Le, T, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, McFarland, KS, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfín, JG, Mousseau, J, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Nguyen, C, Norrick, A, Nuruzzaman, Olivier, A, Paolone, V, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Ramírez, MA, Ransome, RD, Ren, L, Rimal, D, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Schellman, H, Sobczyk, JT, Salinas, CJ Solano, Su, H, Sultana, M, Valencia, E, Wark, D, Weber, A, Wolcott, J, Wospakrik, M, and Yaeggy, B

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, MINERvA Collaboration, hep-ex, Mathematical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract

Final-state kinematic imbalances are measured in mesonless production of ν_{μ}+A→μ^{-}+p+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 argon detectors where the effect of the nucleus may be even larger.

Published
2018

2. First Measurement of Quasielastic <math><mi>Λ</mi></math> Baryon Production in Muon Antineutrino Interactions in the MicroBooNE Detector

Author

Abratenko, P., Andrade Aldana, D., Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barr, G., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Benevides Rodrigues, O., Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bogart, B., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Caro Terrazas, I., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Djurcic, Z., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Finnerud, O. G., Foreman, W., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Goodwin, O., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Hen, O., Hicks, R., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Irwin, B., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y.J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., Leibovitch, M. B., Lepetic, I., Li, J.Y., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martinez, N., Martinez Caicedo, D. A., Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mogan, A., Mohayai, T., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Mora Lepin, L., Mousseau, J., Mulleriababu, S., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nayak, N., Nebot-Guinot, M., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Oza, N., Palamara, O., Pallat, N., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Parkinson, H. B., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I. D., Pophale, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rodriguez Rondon, J., Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Rudolf von Rohr, C., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Taniuchi, N., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Torbunov, D., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y.T., Tyler, J., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., White, A. J., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.

Abstract

We present the first measurement of the cross section of Cabibbo-suppressed Λ baryon production, using data collected with the MicroBooNE detector when exposed to the neutrinos from the main injector beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data analyzed correspond to 2.2×1020 protons on target running in neutrino mode, and 4.9×1020 protons on target running in anti-neutrino mode. An automated selection is combined with hand scanning, with the former identifying five candidate Λ production events when the signal was unblinded, consistent with the GENIE prediction of 5.3±1.1 events. Several scanners were employed, selecting between three and five events, compared with a prediction from a blinded Monte Carlo simulation study of 3.7±1.0 events. Restricting the phase space to only include Λ baryons that decay above MicroBooNE’s detection thresholds, we obtain a flux averaged cross section of 2.0−1.7+2.2×10−40 cm2/Ar, where statistical and systematic uncertainties are combined.

Published
2023

4. First Measurement of Energy-Dependent Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector

Author

MicroBooNE Collaboration, Abratenko, P., An, R., Anthony, J., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Rodrigues, O. Benevides, Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Book, J. Y., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Terrazas, I. Caro, Fernandez, R. Castillo, Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Cianci, D., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Dennis, S. R., Detje, P., Devitt, A., Diurba, R., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Evans, J. J., Fine, R., Aguirre, G. A. Fiorentini, Fitzpatrick, R. S., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Ge, G., Gollapinni, S., Goodwin, O., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hagaman, L., Hen, O., Hilgenberg, C., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Itay, R., James, C., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y. J., Kalra, D., Kamp, N., Kaneshige, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., LaZur, R., Lepetic, I., Li, K., Li, Y., Lin, K., Littlejohn, B. R., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Manivannan, K., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mettler, T., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mohayai, T., Mogan, A., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Lepin, L. Mora, Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Nebot-Guinot, M., Neely, R. K., Newmark, D. A., Nowak, J., Nunes, M., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Patel, N., Paudel, A., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rice, L. C. J., Rochester, L., Rondon, J. Rodriguez, Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Seligman, W., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shi, J., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Soldner-Rembold, S., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thorpe, C., Totani, D., Toups, M., Tsai, Y. -T., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Van De Pontseele, W., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wresilo, K., Wright, N., Wu, W., Yandel, E., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Yu, H. W., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., Zhang, C., and MicroBooNE Collaboration

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/dalton_nuclear_institute, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 530 Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Dalton Nuclear Institute, QC, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

This document was prepared by the MicroBooNE Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), 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. MicroBooNE is supported by the following: the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Offices of High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation; the Royal Society (United Kingdom); and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions. Additional support for the laser calibration system and cosmic ray tagger was provided by the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Bern, Switzerland. We also acknowledge the contributions of technical and scientific staff to the design, construction, and operation of the MicroBooNE detector as well as the contributions of past collaborators to the development of MicroBooNE analyses, without whom this work would not have been possible., We report a measurement of the energy-dependent total charged-current cross section σ(Eν) for inclusive muon neutrinos scattering on argon, as well as measurements of flux-averaged differential cross sections as a function of muon energy and hadronic energy transfer (ν). Data corresponding to 5.3×1019 protons on target of exposure were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located in the Fermilab booster neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy of approximately 0.8 GeV. The mapping between the true neutrino energy Eν and reconstructed neutrino energy Erecν and between the energy transfer ν and reconstructed hadronic energy Erechad are validated by comparing the data and Monte Carlo (MC) predictions. In particular, the modeling of the missing hadronic energy and its associated uncertainties are verified by a new method that compares the Erechad distributions between data and a MC prediction after constraining the reconstructed muon kinematic distributions, energy, and polar angle to those of data. The success of this validation gives confidence that the missing energy in the MicroBooNE detector is well modeled and underpins first-time measurements of both the total cross section σ(Eν) and the differential cross section dσ/dν on argon., High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Royal Society, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Published
2022

5. First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielasticlike ν_{μ}-Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector

Author

Abratenko, P., Alrashed, M., An, R., Anthony, J., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnes, C., Barr, G., Basque, V., Bathe-Peters, L., Benevides Rodrigues, O., Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bishai, M., Blake, A., Bolton, T., Camilleri, L., Caratelli, D., Caro Terrazas, I., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Cerati, G., Chen, Y., Church, E., Cianci, D., Cohen, E. O., Conrad, J. M., Convery, M., Cooper-Troendle, L., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Del Tutto, M., Devitt, D., Diurba, R., Domine, L., Dorrill, R., Duffy, K., Dytman, S., Eberly, B., Ereditato, A., Escudero Sanchez, L., Evans, J. J., Fiorentini Aguirre, G. A., Fitzpatrick, R. S., Fleming, B. T., Foppiani, N., Franco, D., Furmanski, A. P., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gardiner, S., Gollapinni, S., Goodwin, O., Gramellini, E., Green, P., Greenlee, H., Gu, L., Gu, W., Guenette, R., Guzowski, P., Hall, E., Hamilton, P., Hen, O., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Huang, E.C., Itay, R., James, C., Jan de Vries, J., Ji, X., Jiang, L., Jo, J. H., Johnson, R. A., Jwa, Y.J., Kamp, N., Karagiorgi, G., Ketchum, W., Kirby, B., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kreslo, I., LaZur, R., Lepetic, I., Li, K., Li, Y., Littlejohn, B. R., Lorca, D., Louis, W. C., Luo, X., Marchionni, A., Marcocci, S., Mariani, C., Marsden, D., Marshall, J., Martin-Albo, J., Martinez Caicedo, D. A., Mason, K., Mastbaum, A., McConkey, N., Meddage, V., Mettler, T., Miller, K., Mills, J., Mistry, K., Mogan, A., Mohayai, T., Moon, J., Mooney, M., Moor, A. F., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Murphy, M., Naples, D., Navrer-Agasson, A., Neely, R. K., Nienaber, P., Nowak, J., Palamara, O., Paolone, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Paudel, A., Pavlovic, Z., Piasetzky, E., Ponce-Pinto, I. D., Porzio, D., Prince, S., Qian, X., Raaf, J. L., Radeka, V., Rafique, A., Reggiani-Guzzo, M., Ren, L., Rochester, L., Rodriguez Rondon, J., Rogers, H. E., Rosenberg, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Russell, B., Scanavini, G., Schmitz, D. W., Schukraft, A., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Sinclair, J., Smith, A., Snider, E. L., Soderberg, M., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soleti, S. R., Spentzouris, P., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., John, J. St., Strauss, T., Sutton, K., Sword-Fehlberg, S., Szelc, A. M., Tagg, N., Tang, W., Terao, K., Thornton, R. T., Thorpe, C., Toups, M., Tsai, Y.T., Tufanli, S., Uchida, M. A., Usher, T., Van De Pontseele, W., Van de Water, R. G., Viren, B., Weber, M., Wei, H., Williams, Z., Wolbers, S., Wongjirad, T., Wospakrik, M., Wu, W., Yang, T., Yarbrough, G., Yates, L. E., Zeller, G. P., Zennamo, J., and Zhang, C.

Abstract

We report on the first measurement of flux-integrated single differential cross sections for charged-current (CC) muon neutrino (νμ) scattering on argon with a muon and a proton in the final state, Ar40 (νμ,μp)X. The measurement was carried out using the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber detector with an exposure of 4.59×1019 protons on target. Events are selected to enhance the contribution of CC quasielastic (CCQE) interactions. The data are reported in terms of a total cross section as well as single differential cross sections in final state muon and proton kinematics. We measure the integrated per-nucleus CCQE-like cross section (i.e., for interactions leading to a muon, one proton, and no pions above detection threshold) of (4.93±0.76stat±1.29sys)×10−38 cm2, in good agreement with theoretical calculations. The single differential cross sections are also in overall good agreement with theoretical predictions, except at very forward muon scattering angles that correspond to low-momentum-transfer events.

Published
2020

7. First Measurement of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections on Argon at <math><msub><mi>E</mi><mi>ν</mi></msub><mo>∼</mo><mn>0.8</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>GeV</mi></math> with the MicroBooNE Detector

Author

Abratenko, P, Adams, C, Alrashed, M, An, R, Anthony, J, Asaadi, J, Ashkenazi, A, Auger, M, Balasubramanian, S, Baller, B, Barnes, C, Barr, G, Bass, M, Bay, F, Bhat, A, Bhattacharya, K, Bishai, M, Blake, A, Bolton, T, Camilleri, L, Caratelli, D, Terrazas, I, Carr, R, Fernandez, R, Cavanna, F, Cerati, G, Chen, Y, Church, E, Cianci, D, Cohen, EO, Collin, GH, Conrad, JM, Convery, M, Cooper-Troendle, L, Crespo-Anadón, JI, Del Tutto, M, Devitt, D, Diaz, A, Domine, L, Duffy, K, Dytman, S, Eberly, B, Ereditato, A, Sanchez, L, Esquivel, J, Evans, JJ, Fitzpatrick, RS, Fleming, BT, Franco, D, Furmanski, AP, Garcia-Gamez, D, Genty, V, Goeldi, D, Gollapinni, S, Goodwin, O, Gramellini, E, Greenlee, H, Grosso, R, Gu, L, Gu, W, Guenette, R, Guzowski, P, Hackenburg, A, Hamilton, P, Hen, O, Hill, C, Horton-Smith, GA, Hourlier, A, Huang, E-C, James, C, De Vries, J, Ji, X, Jiang, L, Johnson, RA, Joshi, J, Jostlein, H, Jwa, Y-J, Karagiorgi, G, Ketchum, W, Kirby, B, Kirby, M, Kobilarcik, T, Kreslo, I, Lepetic, I, Li, Y, Lister, A, Littlejohn, BR, Lockwitz, S, Lorca, D, Louis, WC, Luethi, M, Lundberg, B, Luo, X, Marchionni, A, Marcocci, S, Mariani, C, Marshall, J, Martin-Albo, J, Caicedo, DA Martinez, Mason, K, Mastbaum, A, Meddage, V, Mettler, T, Mills, J, Mistry, K, Mogan, A, Moon, J, Mooney, M, Moore, CD, Mousseau, J, Murphy, M, Murrells, R, Naples, D, Nienaber, P, Nowak, J, Palamara, O, Pandey, V, Paolone, V, Papadopoulou, A, Papavassiliou, V, Pate, SF, Pavlovic, Z, Piasetzky, E, Porzio, D, Pulliam, G, Qian, X, Raaf, JL, Rafique, A, Ren, L, Rochester, L, Rogers, HE, Ross-Lonergan, M, Von Rohr, C, Russell, B, Scanavini, G, Schmitz, DW, Schukraft, A, Seligman, W, Shaevitz, MH, Sharankova, R, Sinclair, J, Smith, A, Snider, EL, Soderberg, M, Söldner-Rembold, S, Soleti, SR, Spentzouris, P, Spitz, J, Stancari, M, John, JS, Strauss, T, Sutton, K, Sword-Fehlberg, S, Szelc, AM, Tagg, N, Tang, W, Terao, K, Thomson, M, Thornton, RT, Toups, M, Tsai, Y-T, Tufanli, S, Usher, T, Van De Pontseele, W, Van De Water, RG, Viren, B, Weber, M, Wei, H, Wickremasinghe, DA, Wierman, K, Williams, Z, Wolbers, S, Wongjirad, T, Woodruff, K, Wu, W, Yang, T, Yarbrough, G, Yates, LE, Zeller, GP, Zennamo, J, and Zhang, C

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the double-differential and total muon neutrino charged current inclusive cross sections on argon at a mean neutrino energy of 0.8 GeV. Data were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located in the Fermilab Booster neutrino beam and correspond to 1.6×1020 protons on target of exposure. The measured differential cross sections are presented as a function of muon momentum, using multiple Coulomb scattering as a momentum measurement technique, and the muon angle with respect to the beam direction. We compare the measured cross sections to multiple neutrino event generators and find better agreement with those containing more complete treatment of quasielastic scattering processes at low Q2. The total flux integrated cross section is measured to be 0.693±0.010(stat)±0.165(syst)×10−38 cm2.

Published
2019

8. Measurement of final-state correlations in neutrino muon-proton mesonless production on hydrocarbon at < E-v >=3 GeV

Author

Lu, X-G, Betancourt, M, Walton, T, Akbar, F, Aliaga, L, Altinok, O, Andrade, DA, Ascencio, M, Bellantoni, L, Bercellie, A, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Budd, H, Cai, T, Carneiro, MF, Chaves, J, Coplowe, D, Da Motta, H, Dytman, SA, Diaz, GA, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fine, R, Gago, AM, Galindo, R, Gallagher, H, Ghosh, A, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Henry, S, Jena, S, Jena, D, Kleykamp, J, Kordosky, M, Le, T, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, McFarland, KS, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfin, JG, Mousseau, J, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Nguyen, C, Norrick, A, Nuruzzaman, Olivier, A, Paolone, V, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Ramirez, MA, Ransome, RD, Ren, L, Rimal, D, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Schellman, H, Sobczyk, JT, Solano Salinas, CJ, Su, H, Sultana, M, Valencia, E, Wark, D, Weber, A, Wolcott, J, Wospakrik, M, Yaeggy, B, and MINERvA Collaboration

Subjects
Nuclear Theory, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Final-state kinematic imbalances are measured in mesonless production of νμ+A→μ-+p+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 argon detectors where the effect of the nucleus may be even larger.

Published
2018

9. Measurement of Final-State Correlations in Neutrino Muon-Proton Mesonless Production on Hydrocarbon at <math><mrow><mo>⟨</mo><msub><mrow><mi>E</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>ν</mi></mrow></msub><mo>⟩</mo><mo>=</mo><mn>3</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>GeV</mi></mrow></math>

Author

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. Solano, Su, H., Sultana, M., Valencia, E., Wark, D., Weber, A., Wolcott, J., Wospakrik, M., and Yaeggy, B.

Subjects
Computer Science::Digital Libraries
Abstract

Final-state kinematic imbalances are measured in mesonless production of νμ+A→μ−+p+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 argon detectors where the effect of the nucleus may be even larger.

Published
2018

10. Direct Measurement of Nuclear Dependence of Charged Current Quasielasticlike Neutrino Interactions Using MINERvA

Author

Betancourt, M, Ghosh, A, Walton, T, Altinok, O, Bellantoni, L, Bercellie, A, Bodek, A, Bravar, A, Cai, T, Caicedo, DA Martinez, Carneiro, MF, Dytman, SA, Díaz, GA, Felix, J, Fields, L, Fine, R, Galindo, R, Gallagher, H, Golan, T, Gran, R, Harris, DA, Higuera, A, Hurtado, K, Kiveni, M, Kleykamp, J, Le, T, Maher, E, Manly, S, Mann, WA, Marshall, CM, McFarland, KS, McGivern, CL, McGowan, AM, Messerly, B, Miller, J, Mislivec, A, Morfín, JG, Mousseau, J, Naples, D, Nelson, JK, Norrick, A, Nuruzzaman, Patrick, CE, Perdue, GN, Ramírez, MA, Ren, L, Rimal, D, Rodrigues, PA, Ruterbories, D, Schellman, H, Sobczyk, JT, Salinas, CJ, Falero, S, Valencia, E, Wolcott, J, Wospakrik, M, and Yaeggy, B

Subjects
Mass number, Physics, Particle physics, Proton, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Nuclear Theory, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Inelastic scattering, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Atomic number, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Nucleon, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Charged-current $\nu_{\mu}$ interactions on carbon, iron, and lead with a final state hadronic system of one or more protons with zero mesons are used to investigate the influence of the nuclear environment on quasielastic-like interactions. The transfered four-momentum squared to the target nucleus, $Q^2$, is reconstructed based on the kinematics of the leading proton, and differential cross sections versus $Q^2$ and the cross-section ratios of iron, lead and carbon to scintillator are measured for the first time in a single experiment. The measurements show a dependence on atomic number. While the quasielastic-like scattering on carbon is compatible with predictions, the trends exhibited by scattering on iron and lead favor a prediction with intranuclear rescattering of hadrons accounted for by a conventional particle cascade treatment. These measurements help discriminate between different models of both initial state nucleons and final state interactions used in the neutrino oscillation experiments.

Published
2017

11. Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasielastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target atEν∼3.5 GeV

Author

The MINERvA collaboration, Fiorentini, G. A., Schmitz, D. W., Rodrigues, P. A., Aliaga, L., Altinok, O., Baldin, B., Baumbaugh, A., Bodek, A., Boehnlein, D., Boyd, S., Bradford, R., Brooks, W. K., Budd, H., Butkevich, A., Caicedo, D. A. Martinez, Castromonte, C. M., Christy, M. E., Chung, H., Chvojka, J., Clark, M., da Motta, H., Damiani, D. S., Danko, I., Datta, M., Day, M., DeMaat, R., Devan, J., Draeger, E., Dytman, S. A., Díaz, G. A., Eberly, B., Edmondson, D. A., Felix, J., Fitzpatrick, T., Fields, L., Gago, A. M., Gallagher, H., George, C. A., Gielata, J. A., Gingu, C., Gobbi, B., Gran, R., Grossman, N., Hanson, J., Harris, D. A., Heaton, J., Higuera, A., Howley, I. J., Hurtado, K., Jerkins, M., Kafka, T., Kaisen, J., Kanter, M. O., Keppel, C. E., Kilmer, J., Kordosky, M., Krajeski, A. H., Kulagin, S. A., Le, T., Lee, H., Leister, A. G., Locke, G., Maggi, G., Maher, E., Manly, S., Mann, W. A., Marshall, C. M., McFarland, K. S., McGivern, C. L., McGowan, A. M., Mislivec, A., Morfń, J. G., Mousseau, J., Naples, D., Nelson, J. K., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Ochoa, N., O'Connor, C. D., Olsen, J., Osmanov, B., Osta, J., Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Park, J., Patrick, C. E., Perdue, G. N., Peña, C., Rakotondravohitra, L., Ransome, R. D., Ray, H., Ren, L., Rude, C., Sassin, K. E., Schellman, H., Schneider, R. M., Schulte, E. C., Simon, C., Snider, F. D., Snyder, M. C., Sobczyk, J. T., Salinas, C. J. Solano, Tagg, N., Tan, W., Tice, B. G., Tzanakos, G., Velásquez, J. P., Walding, J., Walton, T., Wolcott, J., Wolthuis, B. A., Woodward, N., Zavala, G., Zeng, H. B., Zhang, D., Zhu, L. Y., and Ziemer, B. P.

Subjects
Physics, Elastic scattering, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, NuMI, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Content (measure theory), High Energy Physics::Experiment, Muon neutrino, Fermilab, 010306 general physics, Fermi gas, Nucleon, Nuclear Experiment, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

We report a study of muon neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic events in the segmented scintillator inner tracker of the MINERvA experiment running in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The events were selected by requiring a {\mu}^- and low calorimetric recoil energy separated from the interaction vertex. We measure the flux-averaged differential cross-section, d{\sigma}/dQ^2, and study the low energy particle content of the final state. Deviations are found between the measured d{\sigma}/dQ^2 and the expectations of a model of independent nucleons in a relativistic Fermi gas. We also observe an excess of energy near the vertex consistent with multiple protons in the final state., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures. Added correlation between neutrino and anti-neutrino result in ancillary files (CSV)

Published
2013

12. Direct Measurement of the Formation Length of Photons.

Author

Andersen, Kristoffer K., Andersen, S&phgr;ren L., Esberg, Jakob, Knudsen, Helge, Mikkelsen, Rune, Uggerh&phgr;j, Ulrik I., Sona, Pietro, Mangiarotti, Alessio, Ketel, Tjeerd J., and Ballestrero, Sergio

Subjects
*PHOTONS, *PHOTON emission, *ELECTRONS, *LOGICAL prediction, *MEASURE theory, *SEPARATION (Technology)
Abstract

We report the first observation of a shoulder in the radiation spectrum from GeV electrons in a structured target consisting of two thin and closely spaced foils. The position of the shoulder depends on the target spacing and is directly connected to the finite formation length of a low-energy photon emitted by an ultrarelativistic electron. With the present setup it is possible to control the separation of the foils on a p.m scale and hence measure interference effects caused by the macroscopic dimensions of the formation length. Several theoretical groups have predicted this effect using different methods. Our observations have a preference for the modified theory by Blankenbecler but disagree with the results of Baier and Katkov. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2012
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13. First Simultaneous Measurement of Differential Muon-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon for Final States with and without Protons Using MicroBooNE Data.

Author

Abratenko P, Alterkait O, Andrade Aldana D, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barr G, Barrow D, Barrow J, Basque V, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bhattacharya M, Bishai M, Blake A, Bogart B, Bolton T, Book JY, Brunetti MB, Camilleri L, Cao Y, Caratelli D, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chappell A, Chen Y, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Cross R, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Djurcic Z, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Englezos P, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Finnerud OG, Foreman W, Fleming BT, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Gao F, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu L, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Imani Z, Irwin B, Ismail MS, James C, Ji X, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Leibovitch MB, Lepetic I, Li JY, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Liu H, Louis WC, Luo X, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez N, Martinez Caicedo DA, Martynenko S, Mastbaum A, Mawby I, McConkey N, Meddage V, Micallef J, Miller K, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Moudgalya MM, Mulleriababu S, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nayak N, Nebot-Guinot M, Nowak J, Oza N, Palamara O, Pallat N, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Parkinson HB, Pate SF, Patel N, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Pophale I, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Safa I, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Szelc AM, Tang W, Taniuchi N, Terao K, Thorpe C, Torbunov D, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tyler J, Uchida MA, Usher T, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, White AJ, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report the first double-differential neutrino-argon cross section measurement made simultaneously for final states with and without protons for the inclusive muon neutrino charged-current interaction channel. The proton kinematics of this channel are further explored with a differential cross section measurement as a function of the leading proton's kinetic energy that extends across the detection threshold. These measurements use data collected with the MicroBooNE detector from 6.4×10^{20} protons on target from the Fermilab booster neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy of ∼0.8  GeV. Extensive data-driven model validation utilizing the conditional constraint formalism is employed. This motivates enlarging the uncertainties with an empirical reweighting approach to minimize the possibility of extracting biased cross section results. The extracted nominal flux-averaged cross sections are compared to widely used event generator predictions revealing severe mismodeling of final states without protons for muon neutrino charged-current interactions, possibly from insufficient treatment of final state interactions. These measurements provide a wealth of new information useful for improving event generators which will enhance the sensitivity of precision measurements in neutrino experiments.

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2024
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14. First Search for Dark-Trident Processes Using the MicroBooNE Detector.

Author

Abratenko P, Alterkait O, Andrade Aldana D, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barr G, Barrow D, Barrow J, Basque V, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bhattacharya M, Bishai M, Blake A, Bogart B, Bolton T, Book JY, Brunetti MB, Camilleri L, Cao Y, Caratelli D, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chappell A, Chen Y, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Cross R, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Djurcic Z, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Englezos P, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Finnerud OG, Foreman W, Fleming BT, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Gao F, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu L, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Imani Z, Irwin B, Ismail MS, James C, Ji X, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Leibovitch MB, Lepetic I, Li JY, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Liu H, Louis WC, Luo X, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez N, Martinez Caicedo DA, Martynenko S, Mastbaum A, Mawby I, McConkey N, Meddage V, Micallef J, Miller K, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Moudgalya MM, Mulleriababu S, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nayak N, Nebot-Guinot M, Nowak J, Oza N, Palamara O, Pallat N, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Parkinson HB, Pate SF, Patel N, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Pophale I, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Safa I, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Szelc AM, Tang W, Taniuchi N, Terao K, Thorpe C, Torbunov D, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tyler J, Uchida MA, Usher T, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, White AJ, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We present a first search for dark-trident scattering in a neutrino beam using a dataset corresponding to 7.2×10^{20} protons on target taken with the MicroBooNE detector at Fermilab. Proton interactions in the neutrino target at the main injector produce π^{0} and η mesons, which could decay into dark-matter (DM) particles mediated via a dark photon A^{'}. A convolutional neural network is trained to identify interactions of the DM particles in the liquid-argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) exploiting its imagelike reconstruction capability. In the absence of a DM signal, we provide limits at the 90% confidence level on the squared kinematic mixing parameter ϵ^{2} as a function of the dark-photon mass in the range 10≤M&#95;{A^{'}}≤400  MeV. The limits cover previously unconstrained parameter space for the production of fermion or scalar DM particles χ for two benchmark models with mass ratios M&#95;{χ}/M&#95;{A^{'}}=0.6 and 2 and for dark fine-structure constants 0.1≤α&#95;{D}≤1.

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2024
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15. First Measurement of η Meson Production in Neutrino Interactions on Argon with MicroBooNE.

Author

Abratenko P, Alterkait O, Andrade Aldana D, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barr G, Barrow J, Basque V, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bhattacharya M, Bishai M, Blake A, Bogart B, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Cao Y, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Djurcic Z, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Englezos P, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Finnerud OG, Foreman W, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hicks R, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Imani Z, Irwin B, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Leibovitch MB, Lepetic I, Li JY, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez N, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Miller K, Mills J, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mulleriababu S, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nayak N, Nebot-Guinot M, Nowak J, Oza N, Palamara O, Pallat N, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Parkinson HB, Pate SF, Patel N, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Pophale I, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Taniuchi N, Terao K, Thorpe C, Torbunov D, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tyler J, Uchida MA, Usher T, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, White AJ, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We present a measurement of η production from neutrino interactions on argon with the MicroBooNE detector. The modeling of resonant neutrino interactions on argon is a critical aspect of the neutrino oscillation physics program being carried out by the DUNE and Short Baseline Neutrino programs. η production in neutrino interactions provides a powerful new probe of resonant interactions, complementary to pion channels, and is particularly suited to the study of higher-order resonances beyond the Δ(1232). We measure a flux-integrated cross section for neutrino-induced η production on argon of 3.22±0.84(stat)±0.86(syst) 10^{-41}  cm^{2}/nucleon. By demonstrating the successful reconstruction of the two photons resulting from η production, this analysis enables a novel calibration technique for electromagnetic showers in GeV accelerator neutrino experiments.

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2024
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16. Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons in Electron-Positron and Neutral-Pion Final States with the MicroBooNE Detector.

Author

Abratenko P, Alterkait O, Andrade Aldana D, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barr G, Barrow D, Barrow J, Basque V, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bhattacharya M, Bishai M, Blake A, Bogart B, Bolton T, Book JY, Brunetti MB, Camilleri L, Cao Y, Caratelli D, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chappell A, Chen Y, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Cross R, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Djurcic Z, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Englezos P, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Finnerud OG, Foreman W, Fleming BT, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Gao F, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu L, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Imani Z, Irwin B, Ismail M, James C, Ji X, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Leibovitch MB, Lepetic I, Li JY, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Liu H, Louis WC, Luo X, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez N, Martinez Caicedo DA, Martynenko S, Mastbaum A, Mawby I, McConkey N, Meddage V, Micallef J, Miller K, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Moudgalya MM, Mulleriababu S, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nayak N, Nebot-Guinot M, Nowak J, Oza N, Palamara O, Pallat N, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Parkinson HB, Pate SF, Patel N, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Pophale I, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Safa I, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spitz J, Stancari M, St John J, Strauss T, Szelc AM, Tang W, Taniuchi N, Terao K, Thorpe C, Torbunov D, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tyler J, Uchida MA, Usher T, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, White AJ, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We present the first search for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) decaying into νe^{+}e^{-} or νπ^{0} final states in a liquid-argon time projection chamber using data collected with the MicroBooNE detector. The data were recorded synchronously with the NuMI neutrino beam from Fermilab's main injector corresponding to a total exposure of 7.01×10^{20} protons on target. We set upper limits at the 90% confidence level on the mixing parameter |U&#95;{μ4}|^{2} in the mass ranges 10≤m&#95;{HNL}≤150  MeV for the νe^{+}e^{-} channel and 150≤m&#95;{HNL}≤245  MeV for the νπ^{0} channel, assuming |U&#95;{e4}|^{2}=|U&#95;{τ4}|^{2}=0. These limits represent the most stringent constraints in the mass range 35

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2024
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17. Control of the Bright-Dark Exciton Splitting Using the Lamb Shift in a Two-Dimensional Semiconductor.

Author

Ren L, Robert C, Glazov M, Semina M, Amand T, Lombez L, Lagarde D, Taniguchi T, Watanabe K, and Marie X

Abstract

We investigate the exciton fine structure in atomically thin WSe&#95;{2}-based van der Waals heterostructures where the density of optical modes at the location of the semiconductor monolayer can be tuned. The energy splitting Δ between the bright and dark exciton is measured by photoluminescence spectroscopy. We demonstrate that Δ can be tuned by a few meV as a result of a significant Lamb shift of the optically active exciton that arises from emission and absorption of virtual photons triggered by the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. We also measure strong variations of the bright exciton radiative linewidth as a result of the Purcell effect. All these experimental results illustrate the strong sensitivity of the excitons to local vacuum field fluctuations. We find a very good agreement with a model that demonstrates the equivalence, for our system, of a classical electrodynamical transfer matrix formalism and quantum-electrodynamical approach. The bright-dark splitting control we demonstrate here in the weak light-matter coupling regime should apply to any semiconductor structures.

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2023
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18. First Double-Differential Measurement of Kinematic Imbalance in Neutrino Interactions with the MicroBooNE Detector.

Author

Abratenko P, Alterkait O, Andrade Aldana D, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barr G, Barrow J, Basque V, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhattacharya M, Bishai M, Blake A, Bogart B, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cohen EO, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Djurcic Z, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Finnerud OG, Foreman W, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hicks R, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Irwin B, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Leibovitch MB, Lepetic I, Li JY, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez N, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Miller K, Mills J, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Mulleriababu S, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nayak N, Nebot-Guinot M, Nowak J, Oza N, Palamara O, Pallat N, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Parkinson HB, Pate SF, Patel N, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Pophale I, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Taniuchi N, Terao K, Thorpe C, Torbunov D, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tyler J, Uchida MA, Usher T, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, White AJ, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report the first measurement of flux-integrated double-differential quasielasticlike neutrino-argon cross sections, which have been made using the Booster Neutrino Beam and the MicroBooNE detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data are presented as a function of kinematic imbalance variables which are sensitive to nuclear ground-state distributions and hadronic reinteraction processes. We find that the measured cross sections in different phase-space regions are sensitive to different nuclear effects. Therefore, they enable the impact of specific nuclear effects on the neutrino-nucleus interaction to be isolated more completely than was possible using previous single-differential cross section measurements. Our results provide precision data to help test and improve neutrino-nucleus interaction models. They further support ongoing neutrino-oscillation studies by establishing phase-space regions where precise reaction modeling has already been achieved.

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2023
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19. First Measurement of Quasielastic Λ Baryon Production in Muon Antineutrino Interactions in the MicroBooNE Detector.

Author

Abratenko P, Andrade Aldana D, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barr G, Barrow J, Basque V, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhattacharya M, Bishai M, Blake A, Bogart B, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Djurcic Z, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Finnerud OG, Foreman W, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hicks R, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Irwin B, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Leibovitch MB, Lepetic I, Li JY, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez N, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Miller K, Mills J, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Mulleriababu S, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nayak N, Nebot-Guinot M, Nowak J, Nunes M, Oza N, Palamara O, Pallat N, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Parkinson HB, Pate SF, Patel N, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Pophale I, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Taniuchi N, Terao K, Thorpe C, Torbunov D, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tyler J, Uchida MA, Usher T, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, White AJ, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

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Protons, Computer Simulation, Monte Carlo Method, Mesons
Abstract

We present the first measurement of the cross section of Cabibbo-suppressed Λ baryon production, using data collected with the MicroBooNE detector when exposed to the neutrinos from the main injector beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data analyzed correspond to 2.2×10^{20} protons on target running in neutrino mode, and 4.9×10^{20} protons on target running in anti-neutrino mode. An automated selection is combined with hand scanning, with the former identifying five candidate Λ production events when the signal was unblinded, consistent with the GENIE prediction of 5.3±1.1 events. Several scanners were employed, selecting between three and five events, compared with a prediction from a blinded Monte Carlo simulation study of 3.7±1.0 events. Restricting the phase space to only include Λ baryons that decay above MicroBooNE's detection thresholds, we obtain a flux averaged cross section of 2.0&#95;{-1.7}^{+2.2}×10^{-40}  cm^{2}/Ar, where statistical and systematic uncertainties are combined.

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2023
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20. First Constraints on Light Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Combined Appearance and Disappearance Searches with the MicroBooNE Detector.

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Abratenko P, Andrade Aldana D, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barr G, Barrow J, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhattacharya M, Bishai M, Blake A, Bogart B, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Finnerud OG, Foreman W, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hicks R, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Irwin B, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Leibovitch MB, Lepetic I, Li JY, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez N, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Miller K, Mills J, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Mulleriababu S, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nayak N, Nebot-Guinot M, Nowak J, Nunes M, Oza N, Palamara O, Pallat N, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Parkinson HB, Pate SF, Patel N, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Pophale I, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spitz J, Stancari M, St John J, Strauss T, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Taniuchi N, Terao K, Thorpe C, Torbunov D, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tyler J, Uchida MA, Usher T, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, White AJ, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We present a search for eV-scale sterile neutrino oscillations in the MicroBooNE liquid argon detector, simultaneously considering all possible appearance and disappearance effects within the 3+1 active-to-sterile neutrino oscillation framework. We analyze the neutrino candidate events for the recent measurements of charged-current ν&#95;{e} and ν&#95;{μ} interactions in the MicroBooNE detector, using data corresponding to an exposure of 6.37×10^{20} protons on target from the Fermilab booster neutrino beam. We observe no evidence of light sterile neutrino oscillations and derive exclusion contours at the 95% confidence level in the plane of the mass-squared splitting Δm&#95;{41}^{2} and the sterile neutrino mixing angles θ&#95;{μe} and θ&#95;{ee}, excluding part of the parameter space allowed by experimental anomalies. Cancellation of ν&#95;{e} appearance and ν&#95;{e} disappearance effects due to the full 3+1 treatment of the analysis leads to a degeneracy when determining the oscillation parameters, which is discussed in this Letter and will be addressed by future analyses.

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2023
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21. Search for an Excess of Electron Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE Using Multiple Final-State Topologies.

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Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Collin GH, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Escudero Sanchez L, Evans JJ, Fine R, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Genty V, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kaleko D, Kalra D, Kamp N, Kaneshige N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, LaZur R, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Lister A, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Mettler T, Miller K, Mills J, Mistry K, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Moon J, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nebot-Guinot M, Neely RK, Newmark DA, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Patel N, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Russell B, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Soleti SR, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Terao K, Thomson M, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We present a measurement of ν&#95;{e} interactions from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber to address the nature of the excess of low energy interactions observed by the MiniBooNE Collaboration. Three independent ν&#95;{e} searches are performed across multiple single electron final states, including an exclusive search for two-body scattering events with a single proton, a semi-inclusive search for pionless events, and a fully inclusive search for events containing all hadronic final states. With differing signal topologies, statistics, backgrounds, reconstruction algorithms, and analysis approaches, the results are found to be either consistent with or modestly lower than the nominal ν&#95;{e} rate expectations from the Booster Neutrino Beam and no excess of ν&#95;{e} events is observed.

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2022
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22. First Measurement of Energy-Dependent Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector.

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Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Kaneshige N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Mettler T, Miller K, Mills J, Mistry K, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Moon J, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nebot-Guinot M, Neely RK, Newmark DA, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Patel N, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Terao K, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report a measurement of the energy-dependent total charged-current cross section σ(E&#95;{ν}) for inclusive muon neutrinos scattering on argon, as well as measurements of flux-averaged differential cross sections as a function of muon energy and hadronic energy transfer (ν). Data corresponding to 5.3×10^{19} protons on target of exposure were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located in the Fermilab booster neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy of approximately 0.8 GeV. The mapping between the true neutrino energy E&#95;{ν} and reconstructed neutrino energy E&#95;{ν}^{rec} and between the energy transfer ν and reconstructed hadronic energy E&#95;{had}^{rec} are validated by comparing the data and Monte Carlo (MC) predictions. In particular, the modeling of the missing hadronic energy and its associated uncertainties are verified by a new method that compares the E&#95;{had}^{rec} distributions between data and a MC prediction after constraining the reconstructed muon kinematic distributions, energy, and polar angle to those of data. The success of this validation gives confidence that the missing energy in the MicroBooNE detector is well modeled and underpins first-time measurements of both the total cross section σ(E&#95;{ν}) and the differential cross section dσ/dν on argon.

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2022
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23. Search for Neutrino-Induced Neutral-Current Δ Radiative Decay in MicroBooNE and a First Test of the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess under a Single-Photon Hypothesis.

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Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Arellano L, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Castillo Fernandez R, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Detje P, Devitt A, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hen O, Hilgenberg C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kalra D, Kamp N, Kaneshige N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, LaZur R, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Mettler T, Miller K, Mills J, Mistry K, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Moon J, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Murrells R, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Nebot-Guinot M, Neely RK, Newmark DA, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Patel N, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tang W, Terao K, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Yu HW, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report results from a search for neutrino-induced neutral current (NC) resonant Δ(1232) baryon production followed by Δ radiative decay, with a ⟨0.8⟩  GeV neutrino beam. Data corresponding to MicroBooNE's first three years of operations (6.80×10^{20} protons on target) are used to select single-photon events with one or zero protons and without charged leptons in the final state (1γ1p and 1γ0p, respectively). The background is constrained via an in situ high-purity measurement of NC π^{0} events, made possible via dedicated 2γ1p and 2γ0p selections. A total of 16 and 153 events are observed for the 1γ1p and 1γ0p selections, respectively, compared to a constrained background prediction of 20.5±3.65(syst) and 145.1±13.8(syst) events. The data lead to a bound on an anomalous enhancement of the normalization of NC Δ radiative decay of less than 2.3 times the predicted nominal rate for this process at the 90% confidence level (C.L.). The measurement disfavors a candidate photon interpretation of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess as a factor of 3.18 times the nominal NC Δ radiative decay rate at the 94.8% C.L., in favor of the nominal prediction, and represents a greater than 50-fold improvement over the world's best limit on single-photon production in NC interactions in the sub-GeV neutrino energy range.

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2022
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24. Search for a Higgs Portal Scalar Decaying to Electron-Positron Pairs in the MicroBooNE Detector.

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Abratenko P, An R, Anthony J, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Basque V, Bathe-Peters L, Benevides Rodrigues O, Berkman S, Bhanderi A, Bhat A, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Book JY, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Castillo Fernandez R, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Cianci D, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Dennis SR, Devitt D, Diurba R, Dorrill R, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Evans JJ, Fine R, Fiorentini Aguirre GA, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Foppiani N, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Gardiner S, Ge G, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Green P, Greenlee H, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hagaman L, Hall E, Hen O, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Itay R, James C, Ji X, Jiang L, Jo JH, Johnson RA, Jwa YJ, Kamp N, Kaneshige N, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, LaZur R, Lepetic I, Li K, Li Y, Lin K, Littlejohn BR, Louis WC, Luo X, Manivannan K, Mariani C, Marsden D, Marshall J, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, McConkey N, Meddage V, Mettler T, Miller K, Mills J, Mistry K, Mogan A, Mohayai T, Moon J, Mooney M, Moor AF, Moore CD, Mora Lepin L, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Naples D, Navrer-Agasson A, Neely RK, Nowak J, Nunes M, Palamara O, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Paudel A, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Ponce-Pinto ID, Prince S, Qian X, Raaf JL, Radeka V, Rafique A, Reggiani-Guzzo M, Ren L, Rice LCJ, Rochester L, Rodriguez Rondon J, Rogers HE, Rosenberg M, Ross-Lonergan M, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Shi J, Siegel H, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tagg N, Tang W, Terao K, Thorpe C, Totani D, Toups M, Tsai YT, Uchida MA, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Wospakrik M, Wresilo K, Wright N, Wu W, Yandel E, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We present a search for the decays of a neutral scalar boson produced by kaons decaying at rest, in the context of the Higgs portal model, using the MicroBooNE detector. We analyze data triggered in time with the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam spill, with an exposure of 1.93×10^{20} protons on target. We look for monoenergetic scalars that come from the direction of the NuMI hadron absorber, at a distance of 100 m from the detector, and decay to electron-positron pairs. We observe one candidate event, with a standard model background prediction of 1.9±0.8. We set an upper limit on the scalar-Higgs mixing angle of θ<(3.3-4.6)×10^{-4} at the 95% confidence level for scalar boson masses in the range (100-200)  MeV/c^{2}. We exclude, at the 95% confidence level, the remaining model parameters required to explain the central value of a possible excess of K&#95;{L}^{0}→π^{0}νν[over ¯] decays reported by the KOTO collaboration. We also provide a model-independent limit on a new boson X produced in K→πX decays and decaying to e^{+}e^{-}.

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2021
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25. First Measurement of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections on Argon at E&#95;{ν}∼0.8  GeV with the MicroBooNE Detector.

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Abratenko P, Adams C, Alrashed M, An R, Anthony J, Asaadi J, Ashkenazi A, Auger M, Balasubramanian S, Baller B, Barnes C, Barr G, Bass M, Bay F, Bhat A, Bhattacharya K, Bishai M, Blake A, Bolton T, Camilleri L, Caratelli D, Caro Terrazas I, Carr R, Castillo Fernandez R, Cavanna F, Cerati G, Chen Y, Church E, Cianci D, Cohen EO, Collin GH, Conrad JM, Convery M, Cooper-Troendle L, Crespo-Anadón JI, Del Tutto M, Devitt D, Diaz A, Domine L, Duffy K, Dytman S, Eberly B, Ereditato A, Escudero Sanchez L, Esquivel J, Evans JJ, Fitzpatrick RS, Fleming BT, Franco D, Furmanski AP, Garcia-Gamez D, Genty V, Goeldi D, Gollapinni S, Goodwin O, Gramellini E, Greenlee H, Grosso R, Gu L, Gu W, Guenette R, Guzowski P, Hackenburg A, Hamilton P, Hen O, Hill C, Horton-Smith GA, Hourlier A, Huang EC, James C, Jan de Vries J, Ji X, Jiang L, Johnson RA, Joshi J, Jostlein H, Jwa YJ, Karagiorgi G, Ketchum W, Kirby B, Kirby M, Kobilarcik T, Kreslo I, Lepetic I, Li Y, Lister A, Littlejohn BR, Lockwitz S, Lorca D, Louis WC, Luethi M, Lundberg B, Luo X, Marchionni A, Marcocci S, Mariani C, Marshall J, Martin-Albo J, Martinez Caicedo DA, Mason K, Mastbaum A, Meddage V, Mettler T, Mills J, Mistry K, Mogan A, Moon J, Mooney M, Moore CD, Mousseau J, Murphy M, Murrells R, Naples D, Nienaber P, Nowak J, Palamara O, Pandey V, Paolone V, Papadopoulou A, Papavassiliou V, Pate SF, Pavlovic Z, Piasetzky E, Porzio D, Pulliam G, Qian X, Raaf JL, Rafique A, Ren L, Rochester L, Rogers HE, Ross-Lonergan M, Rudolf von Rohr C, Russell B, Scanavini G, Schmitz DW, Schukraft A, Seligman W, Shaevitz MH, Sharankova R, Sinclair J, Smith A, Snider EL, Soderberg M, Söldner-Rembold S, Soleti SR, Spentzouris P, Spitz J, Stancari M, John JS, Strauss T, Sutton K, Sword-Fehlberg S, Szelc AM, Tagg N, Tang W, Terao K, Thomson M, Thornton RT, Toups M, Tsai YT, Tufanli S, Usher T, Van De Pontseele W, Van de Water RG, Viren B, Weber M, Wei H, Wickremasinghe DA, Wierman K, Williams Z, Wolbers S, Wongjirad T, Woodruff K, Wu W, Yang T, Yarbrough G, Yates LE, Zeller GP, Zennamo J, and Zhang C

Abstract

We report the first measurement of the double-differential and total muon neutrino charged current inclusive cross sections on argon at a mean neutrino energy of 0.8 GeV. Data were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located in the Fermilab Booster neutrino beam and correspond to 1.6×10^{20} protons on target of exposure. The measured differential cross sections are presented as a function of muon momentum, using multiple Coulomb scattering as a momentum measurement technique, and the muon angle with respect to the beam direction. We compare the measured cross sections to multiple neutrino event generators and find better agreement with those containing more complete treatment of quasielastic scattering processes at low Q^{2}. The total flux integrated cross section is measured to be 0.693±0.010(stat)±0.165(syst)×10^{-38}  cm^{2}.

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2019
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26. Publisher's Note: Identification of Nuclear Effects in Neutrino-Carbon Interactions at Low Three-Momentum Transfer [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 071802 (2016)].

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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, Díaz 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, Martinez Caicedo DA, McFarland KS, McGivern CL, McGowan AM, Messerly B, Miller J, Mislivec A, Morfín 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, Solano Salinas CJ, Tagg N, Tice BG, Valencia E, Walton T, Wolcott J, Wospakrik M, Zavala G, and Zhang D

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This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.071802.

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2018
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27. Antineutrino Charged-Current Reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer.

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Gran R, Betancourt M, Elkins M, Rodrigues PA, Akbar F, Aliaga L, Andrade DA, Bashyal A, Bellantoni L, Bercellie A, Bodek A, Bravar A, Budd H, Vera GFRC, Cai T, Carneiro MF, Coplowe D, da Motta H, Dytman SA, Díaz GA, Felix J, Fields L, Fine R, Gallagher H, Ghosh A, Haider H, Han JY, Harris DA, Henry S, Jena D, Kleykamp J, Kordosky M, Le T, Leistico JR, Lovlein A, Lu XG, Maher E, Manly S, Mann WA, Marshall CM, McFarland KS, McGowan AM, Messerly B, Miller J, Mislivec A, Morfín JG, Mousseau J, Naples D, Nelson JK, Nguyen C, Norrick A, Nuruzzaman, Olivier A, Paolone V, Patrick CE, Perdue GN, Ramírez MA, Ransome RD, Ray H, Ren L, Rimal D, Ruterbories D, Schellman H, Salinas CJS, Su H, Sultana M, Falero SS, Valencia E, Wolcott J, Wospakrik M, and Yaeggy B

Abstract

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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2018
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28. 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, Díaz 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, Morfín JG, Mousseau J, Naples D, Nelson JK, Norrick A, Nuruzzaman, Paolone V, Patrick CE, Perdue GN, Ramírez MA, Ransome RD, Ray H, Ren L, Rimal D, Rodrigues PA, Ruterbories D, Schmitz DW, Solano Salinas CJ, Sultana M, Sánchez Falero S, Valencia E, Walton T, Wolcott J, Wospakrik M, Yaeggy B, and Zhang D

Abstract

Neutral-current production of K^{+} by atmospheric neutrinos is a background in searches for the proton decay p→K^{+}ν[over ¯]. Reactions such as νp→νK^{+}Λ are indistinguishable from proton decays when the decay products of the Λ are below detection threshold. Events with K^{+} are identified in MINERvA by reconstructing the timing signature of a K^{+} decay at rest. A sample of 201 neutrino-induced neutral-current K^{+} events is used to measure differential cross sections with respect to the K^{+} kinetic energy, and the non-K^{+} 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 π^{0} decay, which would veto a neutral-current K^{+} event in a proton decay search, is performed, and a 2σ deficit of detached photons is observed relative to the genie prediction.

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2017
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29. Evidence for Neutral-Current Diffractive π^{0} 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 MF, Chvojka J, da Motta H, Devan J, Dytman SA, Díaz GA, Eberly B, 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, Le T, Maher E, Manly S, Mann WA, Marshall CM, Martinez Caicedo DA, McFarland KS, McGivern CL, McGowan AM, Messerly B, Miller J, Mislivec A, Morfín JG, Mousseau J, Naples D, Nelson JK, Norrick A, Nuruzzaman, Osta J, Paolone V, Park J, Patrick CE, Perdue GN, Rakotondravohitra L, Ramirez MA, Ray H, Ren L, Rimal D, Rodrigues PA, Ruterbories D, Schellman H, Schmitz DW, Solano Salinas CJ, Sánchez Falero S, Tagg N, Tice BG, Valencia E, Walton T, Wospakrik M, and Zhang D

Abstract

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 π^{0} production with a broad energy distribution peaking at 7 GeV and a total cross section of 0.26±0.02(stat.)±0.08(sys.)×10^{-39}  cm^{2}. 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 π^{0} 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 ν&#95;{μ} to ν&#95;{e} oscillations.

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2016
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30. Evidence of Coherent K^{+} Meson Production in Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering.

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Wang Z, Marshall CM, Aliaga L, Altinok O, Bellantoni L, Bercellie A, Betancourt M, Bodek A, Bravar A, Budd H, Cai T, Carneiro MF, da Motta H, Dytman SA, Díaz GA, Eberly B, Endress E, Felix J, Fields L, Fine R, 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, Martinez Caicedo DA, McFarland KS, McGivern CL, McGowan AM, Messerly B, Miller J, Mislivec A, Morfín 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, Solano Salinas CJ, Tice BG, Valencia E, Walton T, Wolcott J, Wospakrik M, Zavala G, and Zhang D

Abstract

Neutrino-induced charged-current coherent kaon production ν&#95;{μ}A→μ^{-}K^{+}A is a rare, inelastic electroweak process that brings a K^{+} on shell and leaves the target nucleus intact in its ground state. This process is significantly lower in rate than the neutrino-induced charged-current coherent pion production because of Cabibbo suppression and a kinematic suppression due to the larger kaon mass. We search for such events in the scintillator tracker of MINERvA by observing the final state K^{+}, μ^{-}, and no other detector activity, and by using the kinematics of the final state particles to reconstruct the small momentum transfer to the nucleus, which is a model-independent characteristic of coherent scattering. We find the first experimental evidence for the process at 3σ significance.

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2016
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31. Measurement of Electron Neutrino Quasielastic and Quasielasticlike Scattering on Hydrocarbon at ⟨E&#95;{ν}⟩=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, Díaz 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, Martinez Caicedo DA, McFarland KS, McGivern CL, McGowan AM, Messerly B, Miller J, Mislivec A, Morfín 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, Solano Salinas CJ, Tagg N, Tice BG, Valencia E, Walton T, Wospakrik M, Zavala G, Zegarra A, Zhang D, and Ziemer BP

Abstract

The first direct measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielasticlike 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-integrated differential cross sections in the electron production angle, electron energy, and Q^{2} are presented. The ratio of the quasielastic, flux-integrated differential cross section in Q^{2} for ν&#95;{e} with that of similarly selected ν&#95;{μ}-induced events from the same exposure is used to probe assumptions that underpin conventional treatments of charged-current ν&#95;{e} interactions used by long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The data are found to be consistent with lepton universality and are well described by the predictions of the neutrino event generator GENIE.

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2016
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32. 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, Díaz 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, Martinez Caicedo DA, McFarland KS, McGivern CL, McGowan AM, Messerly B, Miller J, Mislivec A, Morfín 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, Solano Salinas CJ, Tagg N, Tice BG, Valencia E, Walton T, Wolcott J, Wospakrik M, Zavala G, and Zhang D

Abstract

Two different nuclear-medium effects are isolated using a low three-momentum transfer subsample of neutrino-carbon scattering data from the MINERvA neutrino experiment. The observed hadronic energy in charged-current ν&#95;{μ} interactions is combined with muon kinematics to permit separation of the quasielastic and Δ(1232) resonance processes. First, we observe a small cross section at very low energy transfer that matches the expected screening effect of long-range nucleon correlations. Second, additions to the event rate in the kinematic region between the quasielastic and Δ resonance processes are needed to describe the data. The data in this kinematic region also have an enhanced population of multiproton final states. Contributions predicted for scattering from a nucleon pair have both properties; the model tested in this analysis is a significant improvement but does not fully describe the data. We present the results as a double-differential cross section to enable further investigation of nuclear models. Improved description of the effects of the nuclear environment are required by current and future neutrino oscillation experiments.

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2016
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33. Measurement of coherent production of π(±) in neutrino and antineutrino beams on carbon from Eν 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, Díaz 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, Martinez Caicedo DA, McFarland KS, McGivern CL, McGowan AM, Messerly B, Miller J, Morfín 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, Solano Salinas CJ, Tagg N, Tice BG, Valencia E, Walton T, Wolcott J, Wospakrik M, Zavala G, Zhang D, and Ziemer BP

Abstract

Neutrino-induced coherent charged pion production on nuclei νμA→μ(±)π(∓)A is a rare, inelastic interaction in which a small squared four-momentum |t| is transferred to the recoil nucleus, leaving it intact in the reaction. In the scintillator tracker of MINERvA, we remove events with evidence of particles from nuclear breakup and reconstruct |t| from the final-state pion and muon. We select low |t| events to isolate a sample rich in coherent candidates. By selecting low |t| events, we produce a model-independent measurement of the differential cross section for coherent scattering of neutrinos and antineutrinos on carbon. We find poor agreement with the predicted kinematics in neutrino generators used by current oscillation experiments.

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2014
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34. Measurement of ratios of νμ 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, Barrios Sazo MG, Betancourt M, Bodek A, Bravar A, Brooks WK, Budd H, Bustamante MJ, Butkevich A, Martinez Caicedo DA, Castromonte CM, Christy ME, Chvojka J, da Motta H, Devan J, Dytman SA, Díaz 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, Martin Mari C, McFarland KS, McGivern CL, McGowan AM, Miller J, Mislivec A, Morfín 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, Solano Salinas CJ, Tagg N, Valencia E, Velásquez JP, Walton T, Wolcott J, Zavala G, Zhang D, and Ziemer BP

Abstract

We present measurements of ν(μ) charged-current cross section ratios on carbon, iron, and lead relative to a scintillator (CH) using the fine-grained MINERvA detector exposed to the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The measurements utilize events of energies 2

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2014
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35. Measurement of muon neutrino quasielastic scattering on a hydrocarbon target at Eν ~ 3.5 GeV.

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Fiorentini GA, Schmitz DW, Rodrigues PA, Aliaga L, Altinok O, Baldin B, Baumbaugh A, Bodek A, Boehnlein D, Boyd S, Bradford R, Brooks WK, Budd H, Butkevich A, Martinez Caicedo DA, Castromonte CM, Christy ME, Chung H, Chvojka J, Clark M, da Motta H, Damiani DS, Danko I, Datta M, Day M, DeMaat R, Devan J, Draeger E, Dytman SA, Díaz GA, Eberly B, Edmondson DA, Felix J, Fields L, Fitzpatrick T, Gago AM, Gallagher H, George CA, Gielata JA, Gingu C, Gobbi B, Gran R, Grossman N, Hanson J, Harris DA, Heaton J, Higuera A, Howley IJ, Hurtado K, Jerkins M, Kafka T, Kaisen J, Kanter MO, Keppel CE, Kilmer J, Kordosky M, Krajeski AH, Kulagin SA, Le T, Lee H, Leister AG, Locke G, Maggi G, Maher E, Manly S, Mann WA, Marshall CM, McFarland KS, McGivern CL, McGowan AM, Mislivec A, Morfín JG, Mousseau J, Naples D, Nelson JK, Niculescu G, Niculescu I, Ochoa N, O'Connor CD, Olsen J, Osmanov B, Osta J, Palomino JL, Paolone V, Park J, Patrick CE, Perdue GN, Peña C, Rakotondravohitra L, Ransome RD, Ray H, Ren L, Rude C, Sassin KE, Schellman H, Schneider RM, Schulte EC, Simon C, Snider FD, Snyder MC, Sobczyk JT, Solano Salinas CJ, Tagg N, Tan W, Tice BG, Tzanakos G, Velásquez JP, Walding J, Walton T, Wolcott J, Wolthuis BA, Woodward N, Zavala G, Zeng HB, Zhang D, Zhu LY, and Ziemer BP

Abstract

We report a study of ν(μ) charged-current quasielastic events in the segmented scintillator inner tracker of the MINERvA experiment running in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The events were selected by requiring a μ- and low calorimetric recoil energy separated from the interaction vertex. We measure the flux-averaged differential cross section, dσ/dQ², and study the low energy particle content of the final state. Deviations are found between the measured dσ/dQ² and the expectations of a model of independent nucleons in a relativistic Fermi gas. We also observe an excess of energy near the vertex consistent with multiple protons in the final state.

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2013
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36. Measurement of muon antineutrino quasielastic scattering on a hydrocarbon target at Eν ~ 3.5 GeV.

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Fields L, Chvojka J, Aliaga L, Altinok O, Baldin B, Baumbaugh A, Bodek A, Boehnlein D, Boyd S, Bradford R, Brooks WK, Budd H, Butkevich A, Martinez Caicedo DA, Castromonte CM, Christy ME, Chung H, Clark M, da Motta H, Damiani DS, Danko I, Datta M, Day M, DeMaat R, Devan J, Draeger E, Dytman SA, Díaz GA, Eberly B, Edmondson DA, Felix J, Fitzpatrick T, Fiorentini GA, Gago AM, Gallagher H, George CA, Gielata JA, Gingu C, Gobbi B, Gran R, Grossman N, Hanson J, Harris DA, Heaton J, Higuera A, Howley IJ, Hurtado K, Jerkins M, Kafka T, Kaisen J, Kanter MO, Keppel CE, Kilmer J, Kordosky M, Krajeski AH, Kulagin SA, Le T, Lee H, Leister AG, Locke G, Maggi G, Maher E, Manly S, Mann WA, Marshall CM, McFarland KS, McGivern CL, McGowan AM, Mislivec A, Morfín JG, Mousseau J, Naples D, Nelson JK, Niculescu G, Niculescu I, Ochoa N, O'Connor CD, Olsen J, Osmanov B, Osta J, Palomino JL, Paolone V, Park J, Patrick CE, Perdue GN, Peña C, Rakotondravohitra L, Ransome RD, Ray H, Ren L, Rodrigues PA, Rude C, Sassin KE, Schellman H, Schmitz DW, Schneider RM, Schulte EC, Simon C, Snider FD, Snyder MC, Sobczyk JT, Solano Salinas CJ, Tagg N, Tan W, Tice BG, Tzanakos G, Velásquez JP, Walding J, Walton T, Wolcott J, Wolthuis BA, Woodward N, Zavala G, Zeng HB, Zhang D, Zhu LY, and Ziemer BP

Abstract

We have isolated ν(μ) charged-current quasielastic (QE) interactions occurring in the segmented scintillator tracking region of the MINERvA detector running in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. We measure the flux-averaged differential cross section, dσ/dQ², and compare to several theoretical models of QE scattering. Good agreement is obtained with a model where the nucleon axial mass, M(A), is set to 0.99 GeV/c² but the nucleon vector form factors are modified to account for the observed enhancement, relative to the free nucleon case, of the cross section for the exchange of transversely polarized photons in electron-nucleus scattering. Our data at higher Q² favor this interpretation over an alternative in which the axial mass is increased.

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2013
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