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Simulating the neutrino flux from the Spallation Neutron Source for the COHERENT experiment

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.032003

Akimov, D.; An, P.; Awe, C.; Barbeau, P. S.; Becker, B.; Belov, V.; Bernardi, I.; Blackston, M. A.; Bock, C.; Bolozdynya, A.; et al (August 2022, Physical Review D)

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Use of neutrino scattering events with low hadronic recoil to inform neutrino flux and detector energy scale

https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/P08068

Bashyal, A.; Rimal, D.; Messerly, B.; Ahmad Dar, Z.; Akbar, F.; Ascencio, M.V.; Bercellie, A.; Betancourt, M.; Bodek, A.; Bonilla, J.L.; et al (August 2021, Journal of Instrumentation)

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Constraint of the MINERνA medium energy neutrino flux using neutrino-electron elastic scattering

Valencia, E.; Jena, D.; Nuruzzaman, Nofirstname; Akbar, F.; Aliaga, L.; Andrade, D. A.; Ascencio, M. V.; Bashyal, A.; Bellanton, L.; Bercellie, A.; et al (November 2019, Physical review)

Elastic neutrino scattering on electrons is a precisely known purely leptonic process that provides a standard candle for measuring neutrino flux in conventional neutrino beams. Using a total sample of 810 neutrino-electron scatters after background subtraction, the measurement reduces the normalization uncertainty on the νμ NuMI beam flux between 2 and 20 GeV from 7.6 to 3.9%. This is the most precise measurement of neutrino-electron scattering to date, will reduce uncertainties on MINERνA’s absolute cross section measurements, and demonstrates a technique that can be used in future neutrino beams such as long baseline neutrino facility.
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Reducing model bias in a deep learning classifier using domain adversarial neural networks in the MINER v A experiment

https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/11/P11020

Perdue, G.N.; Ghosh, A.; Wospakrik, M.; Akbar, F.; Andrade, D.A.; Ascencio, M.; Bellantoni, L.; Bercellie, A.; Betancourt, M.; Vera, G. F.; et al (November 2018, Journal of Instrumentation)

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High precision measurement of Compton scattering in the 5 GeV region

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134884

Ambrozewicz, P.; Ye, L.; Prok, Y.; Larin, I.; Ahmidouch, A.; Baker, K.; Baturin, V.; Benton, L.; Bernstein, A.; Burkert, V.; et al (October 2019, Physics Letters B)

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Measurement of Quasielastic-Like Neutrino Scattering at $$\left< E_\nu \right> \sim 3.5$$~ GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.012004

Ruterbories, D.; Hurtado, K.; Osta, J.; Akbar, F.; Aliaga, L.; Andrade, D. A.; Ascencio, M. V.; Bashyal, A.; Bercellie, A.; Betancourt, M.; et al (January 2019, Physical review. D.)

MINERvA presents a new analysis of neutrino induced quasielastic-like interactions in a hydrocarbon tracking target. We report a double-differential cross section using the muon transverse and longitudinal momentum. In addition, differential cross sections as a function of the square of the four-momentum transferred and the neutrino energy are calculated using a quasielastic hypothesis. Finally, an analysis of energy deposited near the interaction vertex is presented. These results are compared to modified genie predictions as well as a NuWro prediction. All results use a data set produced by 3.34×10^20 protons on target creating a neutrino beam with a peak energy of approximately 3.5 GeV.
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Observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao0990

Akimov, D.; Albert, J. B.; An, P.; Awe, C.; Barbeau, P. S.; Becker, B.; Belov, V.; Brown, A.; Bolozdynya, A.; Cabrera-Palmer, B.; et al (September 2017, Science)

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Measurement of two-photon exchange effect by comparing elastic $e^{\pm} p$ cross sections

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.95.065201

Rimal, D.; Adikaram, D.; Raue, B. A.; Weinstein, L. B.; Arrington, J.; Brooks, W. K.; Ungaro, M.; Adhikari, K. P.; Afanasev, A. V.; Akbar, Z.; et al (June 2017, Physical Review C)
Precision measurement of the neutral pion lifetime

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay6641

Larin, I.; Zhang, Y.; Gasparian, A.; Gan, L.; Miskimen, R.; Khandaker, M.; Dale, D.; Danagoulian, S.; Pasyuk, E.; Gao, H.; et al (April 2020, Science)

The explicit breaking of the axial symmetry by quantum fluctuations gives rise to the so-called axial anomaly. This phenomenon is solely responsible for the decay of the neutral pion π⁰into two photons (γγ), leading to its unusually short lifetime. We precisely measured the decay width Γ of the $π^{0} \to γ γ$ process. The differential cross sections for π⁰photoproduction at forward angles were measured on two targets, carbon-12 and silicon-28, yielding $Γ (π^{0} \to γ γ) = 7.798 \pm 0.056 (stat .) \pm 0.109 (syst .) eV$ , where stat. denotes the statistical uncertainty and syst. the systematic uncertainty. We combined the results of this and an earlier experiment to generate a weighted average of $Γ (π^{0} \to γ γ) = 7.802 \pm 0.052 (stat .) \pm 0.105 (syst .) eV$ . Our final result has a total uncertainty of 1.50% and confirms the prediction based on the chiral anomaly in quantum chromodynamics.
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