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Insertion of STC into TRT at the Department of Physics, Oxford
Credit: CERN

Philip Rodrigues

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Sub department

  • Particle Physics

Research groups

  • Accelerator Neutrinos
philip.rodrigues@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)73394
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 666a
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Exploring neutrino-nucleus interactions in the GeV regime using MINERvA

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-SPECIAL TOPICS (2021)

Authors:

X-G Lu, Z Ahmad Dar, F Akbar, DA Andrade, MV Ascencio, GD Barr, A Bashyal, L Bellantoni, A Bercellie, M Betancourt, A Bodek, JL Bonilla, H Budd, G Caceres, T Cai, MF Carneiro, H da Motta, GA Diaz, J Felix, L Fields, A Filkins, R Fine, AM Gago, H Gallagher, SM Gilligan, R Gran, DA Harris, S Henry, D Jena, S Jena, J Kleykamp, A Klustova, M Kordosky, D Last, A Lozano, E Maher, S Manly, WA Mann, C Mauger, KS McFarland, AM McGowan, B Messerly, J Miller, JG Morfin, D Naples, JK Nelson, C Nguyen, A Olivier, V Paolone, GN Perdue, K-J Plows, MA Ramirez, RD Ransome, H Ray, PA Rodrigues, D Ruterbories, H Schellman, CJ Solano Salinas, H Su, M Sultana, VS Syrotenko, E Valencia, AV Waldron, D Wark, A Weber, K Yang, L Zazueta, MINERvA Collaboration
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Probing nuclear effects with neutrino-induced charged-current neutral pion production

Physical Review D American Physical Society 102 (2020) 072007

Authors:

David Coplowe, O Altinok, Z Ahmad Dar, Giles Barr, Xianguo Lu, David Wark, Alfons Weber

Abstract:

We study neutrino-induced charged-current (CC) π 0 production on carbon nuclei using events with fully imaged final-state proton-π 0 systems. Novel use of final-state correlations based on transverse kinematic imbalance enable the first measurements of the struck nucleon’s Fermi motion, of the intranuclear momentum transfer (IMT) dynamics, and of the final-state hadronic momentum configuration in neutrino pion production. Event distributions are presented for i) the momenta of neutrino-struck neutrons below the Fermi surface, ii) the direction of missing transverse momentum characterizing the strength of IMT, and iii) proton-pion momentum imbalance with respect to the lepton scattering plane. The observed Fermi motion and IMT strength are compared to the previous MINERνA measurement of neutrino CC quasielastic-like production. The measured shapes and absolute rates of these distributions, as well as the cross-section asymmetries show tensions with predictions from current neutrino generator models.
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Constraint of the MINERνA medium energy neutrino flux using neutrino-electron elastic scattering

Physical Review D American Physical Society 100 (2019) 092001

Authors:

E Valencia, D Jena, D Coplowe, Xianguo Lu
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Tuning the GENIE pion production model with MINERvA data

Physical Review D American Physical Society 100:7 (2019) 072005

Authors:

P Stowell, L Pickering, C Willkinson, C Wret, F Akbar, DA Andrade, MV Ascencio, L Bellantoni, A Bercellie, M Betancourt, A Bodek, A Bravar, H Budd, G Caceres, T Cai, MF Cameiro, J Chaves, H Da Motta, GA Diaz, J Felix, L Fields, A Filkins, R Fine, N Fiza

Abstract:

Faced with unresolved tensions between neutrino interaction measurements at few-GeV neutrino energies, current experiments are forced to accept large systematic uncertainties to cover discrepancies between their data and model predictions. The widely used pion production model in genie is compared to four MINERνA charged current pion production measurements using nuisance. Tunings, i.e., adjustments of model parameters, to help match genie to MINERνA and older bubble chamber data are presented. We find that scattering off nuclear targets as measured in MINERνA is not in good agreement with expectations based upon scattering off nucleon (hydrogen or deuterium) targets in existing bubble chamber data. An additional ad hoc correction for the low-Q2 region, where collective nuclear effects are expected to be large, is presented. While these tunings and corrections improve the agreement of genie with the data, the modeling is imperfect. The development of these tunings within the nuisance framework allows for straightforward extensions to other neutrino event generators and models, and allows omitting and including new datasets as they become available.
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Neutron measurements from antineutrino hydrocarbon reactions

Physical Review D American Physical Society 100:5 (2019) 052002

Authors:

T Cai, J Chaves, J Kleykamp, F Akbar, L Albin, L Aliaga, DA Andrade, MV Ascencio, A Bashyal, L Bellantoni, A Bercellie, M Betancourt, A Bodek, A Bravar, H Budd, G Caceres, MF Carneiro, D Coplowe, H Da Motta, Dytman, GA Diaz, J Felix, L Fields, A Filkins

Abstract:

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 hadronic reinteractions in the detector, the sample is limited to momentum transfers below 0.8 GeV/c. From 16 129 interactions, 15 246 neutral particle candidates are observed. The reference simulation predicts 64% of these candidates are due to neutrons from the antineutrino interaction directly but also overpredicts the number of candidates by 15% overall. This discrepancy is beyond the standard uncertainty estimates for models of neutrino interactions and neutron propagation in the detector. We explore these two aspects of the models using the measured distributions for energy deposition, time of flight, position, and speed. We also use multiplicity distributions to evaluate the presence of a two-nucleon knockout process. These results provide critical new information toward a complete description of the hadronic final state of neutrino interactions, which is vital to neutrino oscillation experiments.
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