Design, calibration, and performance of the MINERvA detector

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“…MINERvA uses a fine-grained, plastic-scintillator tracking detector [11] in conjunction with the magnetized MINOS near detector [12], to record interactions of neutrinos and antineutrinos from the high-intensity NuMI beam at Fermilab [13].…”

Section: Overview Of the Experiments A Beam Detector And Exposuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Full descriptions of the design, calibration, and performance of the MINERvA detector configuration are available in Refs. [11,14].…”

Section: Overview Of the Experiments A Beam Detector And Exposuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The procedure whereby these corrections are determined from simulation is described in Ref. [11]. A scaled-down replica of the MINERvA detector, operated in a low-energy particle test beam, was used to establish the spectrometer's tracking efficiency and energy response to single hadrons, and to set the value for the Birks' constant of the scintillator [14].…”

Section: Detector Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Clusters having more than 1 MeV of energy are then matched among the three views to create a track. The per-plane position resolution is 2.7 mm and the track angular resolution is better than 10 mrad [11] in each view.…”

Section: CC Event Selections and Reconstructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cross sections forνμandν¯μinduced pion production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

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Cross sections for ν_{μ} and ν[over ¯]_{μ} induced pion production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA FERMILAB-PUB-16-228-NDCross sections for ν µ andν µ induced pion production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA Separate samples of charged-current pion production events representing two semi-inclusive channels νµ-CC(π + ) andνµ-CC(π 0 ) have been obtained using neutrino and antineutrino exposures of the MINERvA detector. Distributions in kinematic variables based upon µ ± -track reconstructions are analyzed and compared for the two samples. The differential cross sections for muon production angle, muon momentum, and four-momentum transfer Q 2 , are reported, and cross sections versus neutrino energy are obtained. Comparisons with predictions of current neutrino event generators are used to clarify the role of the ∆(1232) and higher-mass baryon resonances in CC pion production and to show the importance of pion final-state interactions. For the νµ-CC(π + ) (νµ-CC(π 0 )) sample, the absolute data rate is observed to lie below (above) the predictions of some of the event generators by amounts that are typically 1-to-2 σ. However the generators are able to reproduce the shapes of the differential cross sections for all kinematic variables of either data set.

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Section: Overview Of the Experiments A Beam Detector And Exposuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Full descriptions of the design, calibration, and performance of the MINERvA detector configuration are available in Refs. [11,14].…”

Section: Overview Of the Experiments A Beam Detector And Exposuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Detector Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

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Cross sections forνμandν¯μinduced pion production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

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“…More information on the design, calibration, and performance of the MINERvA detector, including the elemental composition of the tracking volume, is provided in Ref. [30].…”

Section: Minerva Experimentsmentioning

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Charged pion production inνμinteractions on hydrocarbon at⟨Eν⟩=4.0
Eberly¹,
Aliaga²,
Altinok³
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Charged pion production via charged-current νµ interactions on plastic scintillator (CH) is studied using the MINERvA detector exposed to the NuMI wideband neutrino beam at Fermilab. Events with hadronic invariant mass W < 1.4 GeV and W < 1.8 GeV are selected in separate analyses: the lower W cut isolates single pion production, which is expected to occur primarily through the ∆(1232) resonance, while results from the higher cut include the effects of higher resonances. Cross sections as functions of pion angle and kinetic energy are compared to predictions from theoretical calculations and generator-based models for neutrinos ranging in energy from 1.5-10 GeV. The data are best described by calculations which include significant contributions from pion intranuclear rescattering. These measurements constrain the primary interaction rate and the role of final state interactions in pion production, both of which need to be well understood by neutrino oscillation experiments.

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Bayesian Statistics and the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique for Neutrino Oscillation Analyses

Vladisavljevic

2020

Predicting the T2K Neutrino Flux and Measuring Oscillation Parameters

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Design, calibration, and performance of the MINERvA detector

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Cross sections forνμandν¯μinduced pion production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

Cross sections forνμandν¯μinduced pion production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

Charged pion production inνμinteractions on hydrocarbon at⟨Eν⟩=4.0
Eberly¹,
Aliaga²,
Altinok³
et al. 2015
Phys. Rev. D
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Bayesian Statistics and the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique for Neutrino Oscillation Analyses

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Design, calibration, and performance of the MINERvA detector

Abstract: 2016-12-23T18:47:23

Cited by 197 publications

References 15 publications

Cross sections forνμandν¯μinduced pion production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

Cross sections forνμandν¯μinduced pion production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

Charged pion production inνμinteractions on hydrocarbon at⟨Eν⟩=4.0 Eberly1, Aliaga2, Altinok3 et al. 2015Phys. Rev. DSelf Cite911910View full textAdd to dashboardCite

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Charged pion production inνμinteractions on hydrocarbon at⟨Eν⟩=4.0
Eberly¹,
Aliaga²,
Altinok³
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Phys. Rev. D
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