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Chris Marshall

The one-percenters and those who fake it

This is an event from the MINERvA data that shows the signal when an electron neutrino hits a neutron in MINERvA's plastic scintillator, becomes an electron and changes the neutron into a proton. The color in each triangle represents how much energy is deposited in each of MINERvA's triangular scintillator bars.

MINERvA measures the probability that an electron neutrino interacts with a nucleus inside the MINERvA detector and produces an electron and no other particles besides protons and neutrons.