Title
Exploring neutrino–nucleus interactions in the GeV regime using MINERvA
Date Issued
01 December 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Lu X.G.
Dar Z.A.
Akbar F.
Andrade D.A.
Ascencio M.V.
Barr G.D.
Bashyal A.
Bellantoni L.
Bercellie A.
Betancourt M.
Bodek A.
Bonilla J.L.
Budd H.
Caceres G.
Cai T.
Carneiro M.F.
da Motta H.
Díaz G.A.
Felix J.
Fields L.
Filkins A.
Fine R.
Gallagher H.
Gilligan S.M.
Gran R.
Harris D.A.
Henry S.
Jena D.
Jena S.
Kleykamp J.
Klustová A.
Kordosky M.
Last D.
Lozano A.
Maher E.
Manly S.
Mann W.A.
Mauger C.
McFarland K.S.
McGowan A.M.
Messerly B.
Miller J.
Morfín J.G.
Naples D.
Nelson J.K.
Nguyen C.
Olivier A.
Paolone V.
Perdue G.N.
Plows K.J.
Ramírez M.A.
Ransome R.D.
Ray H.
Rodrigues P.A.
Ruterbories D.
Schellman H.
Su H.
Sultana M.
Syrotenko V.S.
Valencia E.
Waldron A.V.
Wark D.
Weber A.
Yang K.
Zazueta L.
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
With the advance of particle accelerator and detector technologies, the neutrino physics landscape is rapidly expanding. As neutrino oscillation experiments enter the intensity and precision frontiers, neutrino–nucleus interaction measurements are providing crucial input. MINERvA is an experiment at Fermilab dedicated to the study of neutrino–nucleus interactions in the regime of incident neutrino energies from one to few GeV. The experiment recorded neutrino and antineutrino scattering data with the NuMI beamline from 2009 to 2019 using the Low-Energy and Medium-Energy beams that peak at 3GeV and 6GeV, respectively. This article reviews the broad spectrum of interesting nuclear and particle physics that MINERvA investigations have illuminated. The newfound, detailed knowledge of neutrino interactions with nuclear targets thereby obtained is proving essential to continued progress in the neutrino physics sector.
Start page
4243
End page
4257
Volume
230
Issue
24
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85118664223
Source
European Physical Journal: Special Topics
ISSN of the container
19516355
Sponsor(s)
This document was prepared by members of the MINERvA 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. These resources included support for the MINERvA construction project, and support for construction also was granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Award No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for participating scientists was provided by NSF and DOE (USA); by CAPES and CNPq (Brazil); by CoNaCyT (Mexico); by Proyecto Basal FB 0821, CONICYT PIA ACT1413, and Fondecyt 3170845 and 11130133 (Chile); by CONCYTEC (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica), DGI-PUCP (Dirección de Gestión de la Investigación - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru), and VRI-UNI (Vice-Rectorate for Research of National University of Engineering) (Peru); NCN Opus Grant No. 2016/21/B/ST2/01092 (Poland); by Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK); by EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action; by a Cottrell Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement; by an Imperial College London President’s PhD Scholarship. We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data. Finally, we thank the staff of Fermilab for support of the beam line, the detector, and computing infrastructure.
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