Recent Results From MINERvA

Conference · Wed May 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015

OSTI ID:1322161

Patrick, Cheryl ^[1]

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1. Northwestern U.

The MINERvA detector is situated in Fermilab's NuMI beam, which provides neutrinos and antineutrinos in the 1-20 GeV range. It is designed to make precision cross-section measurements for scattering processes on various nuclei. These proceedings summarize the differential cross-section distributions measured for several different processes. Comparison of these with various models hints at additional nuclear effects not included in common simulations. These results will help constrain generators' nuclear models and reduce systematic uncertainties on their predictions. An accurate cross-section model, with minimal uncertainties, is vital to oscillation experiments.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• Contributing Organization: MINERvA
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1322161
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-15-213-ND; 1484582
• Resource Relation: Conference: 50th Rencontres de Moriond on EW Interactions and Unified Theories, La Thuile, Italy, 03/14-03/21/2015
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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