Preliminary results from the MINERvA experiment

Conference · Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Submitted to POS

OSTI ID:1033668

Harris, Deborah A

The MINERvA experiment, operating since 2009 in the NuMI neutrino beam line at Fermilab, has collected neutrino and antineutrino scattering data on a variety of nuclear targets. The detector is designed to identify events originating in plastic scintillator, lead, carbon, iron, water, and liquid helium. The goal of the experiment is to measure inclusive and exclusive cross sections for neutrino and antineutrino with much greater precision than previous experiments. We present preliminary kinematic distributions for charged current quasi-elastic scattering and other processes.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1033668
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-11-584-E; TRN: US1200588
• Journal Information: Submitted to POS, Conference: Presented at 2011 Europhysics Conference On High Energy Physics: HEP 2011 (EPS-HEP2011), Grenoble, France, 21-27 Jul 2011
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ACCURACY
ANTINEUTRINOS
CARBON
CHARGED CURRENTS
CROSS SECTIONS
EXCLUSIVE INTERACTIONS
FERMILAB
HELIUM
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
INCLUSIVE INTERACTIONS
IRON
LEAD
NEUTRINO BEAMS
NEUTRINOS
PLASTIC SCINTILLATORS
QUASI-ELASTIC SCATTERING
SCATTERING
TARGETS
WATER
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