H. S. Budd
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View article: Design and implementation of the cosmic ray tagger system for the ICARUS detector at FNAL
Design and implementation of the cosmic ray tagger system for the ICARUS detector at FNAL Open
The ICARUS-T600 Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber is operating at Fermilab at shallow depth and thus exposed to a high flux of cosmic rays that can fake neutrino interactions. A cosmic ray tagging (CRT) system (∼ 1100 m 2 ), surrounding…
View article: Searching High And Low For Exotic Particles At NUTEV
Searching High And Low For Exotic Particles At NUTEV Open
The E815 (NuTeV) neutrino experiment at Fermilab has conducted two direct searches for neutral heavy leptons by using a dedicated instrumented decay channel. The first search probed the existence of neutral heavy leptons possessing masses …
View article: Design and Implementation of the Cosmic Ray Tagger System for the ICARUS detector at FNAL
Design and Implementation of the Cosmic Ray Tagger System for the ICARUS detector at FNAL Open
The ICARUS-T600 Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber is operating at Fermilab at shallow depth and thus exposed to a high flux of cosmic rays that can fake neutrino interactions. A cosmic ray tagging (CRT) system ($\sim$1100 m$^2$), surrou…
View article: Angular dependent measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon for ionization calorimetry in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber
Angular dependent measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon for ionization calorimetry in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber Open
This paper reports on a measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). A clear dependence of recombination on the angle of the ionizing particle track relative to the …
View article: Search for a Hidden Sector Scalar from Kaon Decay in the Di-Muon Final State at ICARUS
Search for a Hidden Sector Scalar from Kaon Decay in the Di-Muon Final State at ICARUS Open
We present a search for long-lived particles (LLPs) produced from kaon decay that decay to two muons inside the ICARUS neutrino detector. This channel would be a signal of hidden sector models that can address outstanding issues in particl…
View article: Searching sterile neutrinos with ICARUS at FNAL
Searching sterile neutrinos with ICARUS at FNAL Open
In this talk I will present the most recent results from the ICARUS T600 detector.
View article: Angular dependent measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon for ionization calorimetry in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber
Angular dependent measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon for ionization calorimetry in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber Open
This paper reports on a measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). A clear dependence of recombination on the angle of the ionizing particle track relative to the …
View article: Calibration and simulation of ionization signal and electronics noise in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber
Calibration and simulation of ionization signal and electronics noise in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber Open
The ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector has been taking physics data since 2022 as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program. This paper details the equalization of the response to charge in the I…
View article: Measurement of the axial vector form factor from antineutrino–proton scattering
Measurement of the axial vector form factor from antineutrino–proton scattering Open
Scattering of high energy particles from nucleons probes their structure, as was done in the experiments that established the non-zero size of the proton using electron beams 1 . The use of charged leptons as scattering probes enables meas…
View article: Neutrino-Induced Coherent <i>π</i><sup>+ </sup>Production in C, CH, Fe, and Pb at ⟨<i>E</i><sub><i>ν</i></sub>⟩~6 GeV
Neutrino-Induced Coherent <i>π</i><sup>+ </sup>Production in C, CH, Fe, and Pb at ⟨<i>E</i><sub><i>ν</i></sub>⟩~6 GeV Open
MINERvA has measured the νμ-induced coherent π+ cross section simultaneously in hydrocarbon (CH), graphite (C), iron (Fe), and lead (Pb) targets using neutrinos from 2 to 20 GeV. The measurements exceed the predictions of the Rein-Sehgal a…
View article: Vertex finding in neutrino-nucleus interaction: a model architecture comparison
Vertex finding in neutrino-nucleus interaction: a model architecture comparison Open
We compare different neural network architectures for machine learning algorithms designed to identify the neutrino interaction vertex position in the MINERvA detector. The architectures developed and optimized by hand are compared with th…
View article: High-precision measurement of the <i>W</i> boson mass with the CDF II detector
High-precision measurement of the <i>W</i> boson mass with the CDF II detector Open
The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by the symmetries of the standard model of particle physics. The Higgs boson was the last missing component of the model. After obse…
View article: Measurements of the top-quark mass using charged particle tracking
Measurements of the top-quark mass using charged particle tracking Open
We present three measurements of the top-quark mass in the lepton plus jets channel with approximately 1.9 fb{sup -1} of integrated luminosity collected with the CDF II detector using quantities with minimal dependence on the jet energy sc…
View article: Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA
Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA Open
Inverse muon decay, vμe¯ → μ¯ve, is a reaction whose cross section can be predicted with very small uncertainties. It has a neutrino energy threshold of ≈ 11 GeV and can be used to constrain the high-energy part of the flux in the NuMI neu…
View article: Measurement of inclusive charged-current $ν_{\numu}$ scattering on hydrocarbon at {} 6 GeV with low three-momentum transfer
Measurement of inclusive charged-current $ν_{\numu}$ scattering on hydrocarbon at {} 6 GeV with low three-momentum transfer Open
The \minerva experiment reports double-differential cross-section measurements for $ν_μ$-carbon interactions with three-momentum transfer $|\vec{q}| < 1.2$ GeV obtained with medium energy exposures in the NuMI beam. These measurements are …
View article: Use of neutrino scattering events with low hadronic recoil to inform neutrino flux and detector energy scale
Use of neutrino scattering events with low hadronic recoil to inform neutrino flux and detector energy scale Open
Charged-current neutrino interactions with low hadronic recoil ("low-nu") have a cross-section that is approximately constant versus neutrino energy. These interactions have been used to measure the shape of neutrino fluxes as a function o…
View article: ICARUS: new voyage to sterile neutrino search in the Short Baseline Program
ICARUS: new voyage to sterile neutrino search in the Short Baseline Program Open
The ICARUS collaboration operated the 760-ton T600 detector in a successful three-year physics run at the underground LNGS laboratories studying neutrino oscillations with the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN, and searching for atmospheric neu…
View article: Measurement of the charge asymmetry of electrons from the decays of $W$ bosons produced in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV
Measurement of the charge asymmetry of electrons from the decays of $W$ bosons produced in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV Open
At the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton ($p\bar{p}$) collider, high-mass electron-neutrino ($eν$) pairs are produced predominantly in the process $p \bar{p} \rightarrow W(\rightarrow eν) + X$. The asymmetry of the electron and positron …
View article: Probing nuclear effects with neutrino-induced charged-current neutral pion production
Probing nuclear effects with neutrino-induced charged-current neutral pion production Open
We study neutrino-induced charged-current (CC) π0 production on carbon nuclei using events with fully imaged final-state proton-π0 systems. Novel use of final-state correlations based on transverse kinematic imbalance enables the first mea…
View article: Nucleon binding energy and transverse momentum imbalance in neutrino-nucleus reactions
Nucleon binding energy and transverse momentum imbalance in neutrino-nucleus reactions Open
We have measured new observables based on the final state kinematic imbalances in the mesonless production of νμ+A→μ-+p+X in the MINERνA tracker. Components of the muon-proton momentum imbalances parallel (δpTy) and perpendicular (δpTx) to…
View article: High-Statistics Measurement of Neutrino Quasielasticlike Scattering at 6 GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target
High-Statistics Measurement of Neutrino Quasielasticlike Scattering at 6 GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target Open
We measure neutrino charged-current quasielasticlike scattering on hydrocarbon at high statistics using the wideband Neutrinos at the Main Injector beam with neutrino energy peaked at 6 GeV. The double-differential cross section is reporte…
View article: Constraint of the <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>MINER</mml:mi><mml:mi>ν</mml:mi></mml:math>A medium energy neutrino flux using neutrino-electron elastic scattering
Constraint of the A medium energy neutrino flux using neutrino-electron elastic scattering Open
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 …
View article: Tuning the genie pion production model with MINERvA data
Tuning the genie pion production model with MINERvA data Open
Faced with unresolved tensions between neutrino interaction measurements at\nfew-GeV neutrino energies, current experiments are forced to accept large\nsystematic uncertainties to cover discrepancies between their data and model\npredictio…
View article: Measurement of the k(T) Distribution of Particles in Jets Produced in p(p)over-bar Collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV
Measurement of the k(T) Distribution of Particles in Jets Produced in p(p)over-bar Collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV Open
We present a measurement of the transverse momentum with respect to the jet axis (kt) of particles in jets produced in pp collisions at s√=1.96 TeV. Results are obtained for charged particles in a cone of 0.5 radians around the jet axis in…
View article: Neutron measurements from antineutrino hydrocarbon reactions
Neutron measurements from antineutrino hydrocarbon reactions Open
Charged-current antineutrino interactions on a hydrocarbon scintillator in the MINERvA detector are used to study activity from their final-state neutrons. To ensure that most of the neutrons are from the primary interaction, rather than h…
View article: Search for Higgs-like particles produced in association with bottom quarks in proton-antiproton collisions
Search for Higgs-like particles produced in association with bottom quarks in proton-antiproton collisions Open
We report on a search for a spin-zero non-standard model particle in proton-antiproton collisions collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab at a center-of-mass-energy of 1.96 TeV. This particle, the phi boson, is expected to decay int…
View article: Search for standard-model <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>Z</mml:mi></mml:math> and Higgs bosons decaying into a bottom-antibottom quark pair in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV
Search for standard-model and Higgs bosons decaying into a bottom-antibottom quark pair in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.96 TeV Open
The Collider Detector at Fermilab collected a unique sample of jets originating from bottom-quark
\nfragmentation (b-jets) by selecting online proton-antiproton (pp¯) collisions with a vertex displaced from
\nthe pp¯ interaction point, con…
View article: Antineutrino Charged-Current Reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer
Antineutrino Charged-Current Reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer Open
We report on multinucleon effects in low momentum transfer (<0.8 GeV/c) antineutrino interactions on plastic (CH) scintillator. These data are from the 2010-2011 antineutrino phase of the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab. The hadronic energy…