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    • Measurement of charged pion production yields off the NuMI target 

      Paley, Jonathan; Messier, M. D.; Raja, R.; Akgun, U.; Asner, D. M.; Aydin, G.; Baker, W.; Barnes, P. D. Jr; Bergfeld, T.; Beverly, L.; Bhatnagar, V.; Choudhary, B.; Dukes, E. C.; Duru, F.; Feldman, G. J.; Godley, A.; Graf, N.; Gronberg, J.; Gulmez, E.; Gunaydin, Y. O.; Gustafson, H. R.; Hartouni, E. P.; Hanlet, P.; Heffner, M.; Kaplan, D. M.; Kamaev, O.; Klay, J.; Kumar, A.; Lange, D. J.; Lebedev, A.; Ling, J.; Longo, M. J.; Lu, L. C.; Materniak, C.; Mahajan, S.; Meyer, Holger; Miller, D. E.; Mishra, S. R.; Nelson, K.; Nigmanov, T.; Norman, Andrew; Onel, Y.; Penzo, A.; Peterson, R. J.; Rajaram, D.; Ratnikov, D.; Rosenfeld, C.; Rubin, H.; Seun, S.; Singh, A.; Solomey, Nickolas; Soltz, R. A.; Torun, Y.; Wilson, K.; Wright, D. M.; Wu, Q. K. (American Physical Society, 2014-09)
      The fixed-target Main Injector Particle Production (MIPP) experiment, Fermilab E907, was designed to measure the production of hadrons from the collisions of hadrons of momenta ranging from 5 to 120 GeV/c on a variety of ...

    • Measurement of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent $π^0$ production in the NOvA near detector 

      Meyer, Holger; Muether, Mathew; Solomey, Nickolas (American Physical Society, 2020-07-09)
      The cross section of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent $\pi^0$ production on a carbon-dominated target is measured in the NOvA near detector. This measurement uses a narrow-band neutrino beam with an average neutrino ...

    • Measurement of the double-differential muon-neutrino charged-current inclusive cross section in the NOvA near detector 

      NOvA Collaboration; Meyer, Holger; Muether, Mathew; Roy, P.; Solomey, Nickolas (American Physical Society, 2023-03-27)
      We report cross-section measurements of the final-state muon kinematics for $ν{_μ}$ charged-current interactions in the NOvA near detector using an accumulated 8.09×10$^{20}$ protons on target in the NuMI beam. We present ...

    • Measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $θ_{23}$ in NOvA 

      Meyer, Holger; Muether, Mathew; Solomey, Nickolas (American Physical Society, 2017-04-10)
      This Letter reports new results on muon neutrino disappearance from NOvA, using a 14 kton detector equivalent exposure of $6.05\times10^{20}$ protons-on-target from the NuMI beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. ...

    • Measurement of the ν$_e$-Nucleus Charged-Current Double-Differential Cross Section at ⟨$E$$_ν$⟩=2.4 GeV Using NOvA 

      NOvA Collaboration; Meyer, Holger; Muether, Mathew; Roy, P.; Solomey, Nickolas (American Physical Society, 2022-11-08)
      The inclusive electron neutrino charged-current cross section is measured in the NOvA near detector using 8.02 ×10$^{20}$ protons-on-target in the NuMI beam. The sample of GeV electron neutrino interactions is the largest ...

    • Metrics of positive scalar curvature and generalised Morse functions, part II 

      Walsh, Mark (American Mathematical Society, 2014-01)
      The surgery technique of Gromov and Lawson may be used to construct families of positive scalar curvature metrics which are parameterised by Morse functions. This has played an important role in the study of the space of ...

    • Mittag-Leffler vector random fields with Mittag-Leffler direct and cross covariance functions 

      Ma, Chunsheng (Springer Heidelberg, 2013-10)
      In terms of the two-parameter Mittag-Leffler function with specified parameters, this paper introduces the Mittag-Leffler vector random field through its finite-dimensional characteristic functions, which is essentially ...

    • Modeling the spread of the Coronavirus 

      Jaeger, Adam (Wichita State University, 5/3/2020)
      This talk will introduce statistical modeling concepts relating to prediction of COVID rates at a county level and specifically introduce the notion of spatial correlation, which recognizes that there is a connection between ...

    • Models for inviscid wakes past a normal plate 

      Elcrat, Alan R.; Zannetti, L. (Cambridge University Press, 2012-10-10)
      Closed and open hollow wakes are considered as analytic models for the two-dimensional inviscid steady flow past a plate normal to the stream. It is shown that only open configurations which satisfy the Kutta condition ...

    • Models for metal-poor stars with enhanced abundances of C, N, O, Ne, Na, Mg, Si, S, Ca, and Ti, in turn, at constant helium and iron abundances 

      VandenBerg, Don A.; Bergbusch, Peter A.; Dotter, Aaron; Ferguson, Jason W.; Michaud, Georges; Richer, Jacques; Proffitt, Charles R. (IOP Publishing, 2012-08-10)
      Recent work has shown that most globular clusters have at least two chemically distinct components, as well as cluster-to-cluster differences in the mean [O/Fe], [Mg/Fe], and [Si/Fe] ratios at similar [Fe/H] values. In ...

    • Models of metal-poor stars with different initial abundances of C, N, O, Mg, and Si. I. Bolometric corrections derived from new MARCS synthetic spectra and their implications for observed colour-magnitude diagrams 

      VandenBerg, Don A; Edvardsson, Bengt; Casagrande, Luca; Ferguson, Jason W. (Oxford University Press, 2021-11-04)
      New, high-resolution MARCS synthetic spectra have been calculated for more than a dozen mixtures of the metals allowing, in turn, for variations in C:N:O, [CNO/Fe], and enhanced abundances of C, O, Mg, and Si. Bolometric ...

    • Models of parenting and its effect on academic productivity: Preliminary results from an international survey 

      Derrick, Gemma Elizabeth; Jaeger, Adam; Chen, Pei Ying; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; van Leeuwen, Th N.; Larivière, Vincent (International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, 2019-09)
      This preliminary paper investigates the cost of parenting engagement on academic productivity and impact. Instead of investigating the relationship between gender and academia, this study focuses on time invested in parenting ...

    • Modules for the investigation of the central fan question through numerical computation 

      Nguyen, Francis Le (Wichita State University, 2015-05)
      In this thesis, we continue the research of investigating the central fan question through numerical computation of minimal surfaces and the author develops a new conformal map in hopes of producing a more accurate and ...

    • Monochromatic molecular absorption coefficients for use in calculations of stellar opacity 

      Ehrmann, Kari Lynn (Wichita State University, 2018-05)
      In order to fully understand stellar structure, it is necessary to know the opacity, as it influences the behavior of radiative transfer within the stellar interior. Opacity plays an important role in the onset of ...

    • Monochromatic molecular absorption coefficients for use in calculations of stellar opacity 

      Ehrmann, Kari (Wichita State University, 2018-04-27)
      In order to fully understand stellar structure, it is necessary to know the opacity, as it influences the behavior of radiative transfer within the stellar interior. Opacity plays an important role in the onset of convection ...

    • Monte Carlo simulations of a near-solar orbit neutrino detector 

      Gimar, Caleb; Nelsen, Austin; Buchele, Lynn (Wichita State University, 2019-04-26)
      Neutrinos -- weakly interacting subatomic particles often resultant of nuclear processes, including hydrogen fusion -- are the only direct insight into the core of the Sun. Previously constructed neutrino detection ...

    • Monte Carlo simulations of a near-solar orbit neutrino detector 

      Gimar, Caleb (Wichita State University, 2019-05)
      Neutrinos—weakly interacting subatomic particles often resultant of nuclear processes, including hydrogen fusion—are the only direct insight into the core of the Sun. Previously constructed neutrino detection experiments ...

    • Monte Carlo simulations of a space-based dark matter detector 

      Tripathi, Shrey (Wichita State University, 2021-05)
      It has been well established that a large percentage of the material in the universe is in an undiscovered form; Dark Matter. Most of this material is gravitationally condensed together as galaxies and clusters of galaxies. ...

    • Mossbauer and magnetization studies of nickel ferrite nanoparticles synthesized by the microwave-combustion method 

      Mahmoud, Mohamed H.; Elshahawy, A. M.; Makhlouf, Salah A.; Hamdeh, Hussein H. (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2013-10)
      Nanocrystalline nickel ferrite was synthesized from its stoichiometric metal nitrates and urea mixtures, using a microwave assisted combustion method. The process was a convenient, inexpensive and an efficient method for ...

    • Mossbauer investigations in hematite nanoparticles 

      Al-Omari, Imaddin A.; Narayanaswamy, Venkatesha; Halder, Sajib; Hamdeh, Hussein H.; Alaabed, Sulaiman; Kamzin, Aleksandr. S.; Muralee Gopi, Chandu V.V.; Khaleel, Abbas A.; Issa, Bashar; Obaidat, Ihab M. (AMG Transcend Association, 2021-10-16)
      Hematite nanoparticles of average size 20 nm were synthesized using the sol-gel method, and the structural characterizations were conducted using XRD and TEM. The XRD profile revealed a small fraction of the maghemite ...