https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00296-6
Review
Exploring neutrino–nucleus interactions in the GeV regime using MINERvA
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Department of Physics, University of Oxford, OX1 3PJ, Oxford, UK
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Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, 23187, Williamsburg, VA, USA
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AMU Campus, 202001, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Campus León y Campus Guanajuato, Universidad de Guanajuato, Lascurain de Retana No. 5, Colonia Centro, 36000, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
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Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Apartado 1761, Lima, Peru
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Department of Physics, Oregon State University, 97331, Corvallis, OR, USA
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 60510, Batavia, IL, USA
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University of Rochester, 14627, Rochester, NY, USA
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Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, Urca, 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Physics Department, Tufts University, 02155, Medford, MA, USA
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Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Duluth, 55812, Duluth, MN, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, M3J 1P3, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Mohali, Knowledge City, SAS Nagar, 140306, Mohali, Punjab, India
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The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, SW7 2BW, London, UK
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, 375 Church Street, 01247, North Adams, MA, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, 15260, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Avenida España 1680, Valparaiso, Chile
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Department of Physics, University of Florida, 32611, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 08854, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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University of Mississippi, 38677, Oxford, MS, USA
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Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Apartado 31139, Lima, Peru
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, USA
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
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Department of Physics, Chennai, India
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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Received:
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July
2021
Accepted:
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September
2021
Published online:
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November
2021
With the advance of particle accelerator and detector technologies, the neutrino physics landscape is rapidly expanding. As neutrino oscillation experiments enter the intensity and precision frontiers, neutrino–nucleus interaction measurements are providing crucial input. MINERvA is an experiment at Fermilab dedicated to the study of neutrino–nucleus interactions in the regime of incident neutrino energies from one to few GeV. The experiment recorded neutrino and antineutrino scattering data with the NuMI beamline from 2009 to 2019 using the Low-Energy and Medium-Energy beams that peak at 3GeV and 6GeV, respectively. This article reviews the broad spectrum of interesting nuclear and particle physics that MINERvA investigations have illuminated. The newfound, detailed knowledge of neutrino interactions with nuclear targets thereby obtained is proving essential to continued progress in the neutrino physics sector.
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