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Select articles and presentations
For a complete publications list or for arXiv links to items below, see here.
- Nature article describing our first results using combined NOvA and T2K data: "Joint neutrino oscillation analysis from the T2K and NOvA experiments", Nature 646, 818 (2025). Story here.
- "Operation of a Modular 3D-Pixelated Liquid Argon Time-Projection Chamber in a Neutrino Beam", DUNE, arXiv:2509.07012 (2025).
- "Precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with 10 years of data from the NOvA experiment", NOvA, arXiv:2509.04361 (2025).
- "Monte Carlo method for constructing confidence intervals with unconstrained and constrained nuisance parameters in the NOvA experiment", NOvA, JINST 20, T02001 (2025).
- R. B. Patterson, a summary talk on our recent joint NOvA and T2K data analysis, plus updated NOvA-only results using the latest neutrino-mode data (2024).
- "Expanding neutrino oscillation parameter measurements in NOvA using a Bayesian approach", NOvA, Phys. Rev. D 110, 012005 (2024).
- "Performance of a modular ton-scale pixel-readout liquid argon time projection chamber", DUNE, Instruments 8(3), 41 (2024).
- A review article aimed at those entering the field of long-baseline experiments: F. Lodovico, R. B. Patterson, M. Shiozawa, and E. Worcester, "Experimental Considerations in Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Measurements", Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 73, 69 (2023).
- "Measurement of νμ charged-current inclusive π0 production in the NOvA near detector", NOvA, Phys. Rev. D 107, 112008 (2023).
- "Low exposure long-baseline neutrino oscillation sensitivity of the DUNE experiment", DUNE, Phys. Rev. D 105, 072006 (2022).
- "Improved measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters by the NOvA experiment", NOvA, Phys. Rev. D 106, 032004 (2022).
- "Design, construction and operation of the ProtoDUNE-SP Liquid Argon TPC", DUNE, JINST 17, P01005 (2022).
- "Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Near Detector Conceptual Design Report", DUNE, arXiv:2103.13910 (2021).
- "Prospects for beyond the Standard Model physics searches at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment", DUNE, Eur. Phys. J. C 81, 322 (2021).
- "Supernova neutrino burst detection with the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment", DUNE, Eur. Phys. J. C 81, 423 (2021).
- "First results on ProtoDUNE-SP liquid argon time projection chamber performance from a beam test at the CERN Neutrino Platform", DUNE, JINST 15, P12004 (2020).
- "Neutrino interaction classification with a convolutional neural network in the DUNE far detector", DUNE, Phys. Rev. D 102, 092003 (2020).
- "Long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics potential of the DUNE experiment", DUNE, Eur. Phys. J. C 80, 978 (2020).
- First ever evidence (4.4σ) of electron antineutrino appearance. "First measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters using neutrinos and antineutrinos by NOvA", NOvA, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 151803 (2019).
- "The DUNE Far Detector Technical Design Report", DUNE, Volume 1: Introduction to DUNE, Volume II: DUNE Physics, Volume IV: Far Detector Single-phase Technology. And from more recently: "The DUNE Far Detector Vertical Drift Technology. Technical Design Report", DUNE, JINST 19, T08004 (2024).
- "New constraints on oscillation parameters from νe appearance and νμ disappearance in the NOvA experiment", NOvA, Phys. Rev. D 98, 032012 (2018).
- "The Single-Phase ProtoDUNE Technical Design Report", DUNE, arXiv:1706.07081 (2017).
- "Search for active-sterile neutrino mixing using neutral-current interactions in NOvA", NOvA, Phys. Rev. D 96, 072006 (2017).
- "Constraints on oscillation parameters from νe appearance and νμ disappearance in NOvA", NOvA, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 231801 (2017).
- R. B. Patterson, "Perspectives on neutrino physics", a review talk at Pheno 2016.
- "First measurement of electron neutrino appearance in NOvA", NOvA, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151806 (2016); "First measurement of muon neutrino disappearance in NOvA", NOvA, Phys. Rev. D 93, 051104(R) (2016).
- R. B. Patterson, "First oscillation results from NOvA", JETP Seminar at Fermilab in conjunction with APS DPF meeting, Aug 2015. Slides and video here.
- R. B. Patterson, "Prospects for measurement of the neutrino mass hierarchy", Annual Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 65, 177 (2015).
- C. Backhouse and R. B. Patterson, "Library Event Matching event classification algorithm for electron neutrino interactions in the NOvA detectors", Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 778, 31 (2015). Describes a novel, quite generalizable, and optimal (at least in principle) classification algorithm. Developed originally for MINOS. Evolved considerably for use in NOvA.
- R. B. Patterson, "The current experimental situation in neutrino physics", a review talk at Frontiers in Particle Physics: From Dark Matter to the LHC and Beyond, Aspen Winter Conference (2014).
- "Combined analysis of νμ disappearance and νμ→νe appearance in MINOS using accelerator and atmospheric neutrinos", MINOS, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191801 (2014).
- R. B. Patterson, "The NOvA experiment: status and outlook", Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 235, 151 (2013). The "status" part is very dated but the article still serves as an introduction to NOvA.
- "Electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance in the full MINOS data sample", MINOS, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 171801 (2013).
- "Improved measurement of muon antineutrino disappearance in MINOS", MINOS, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 191801 (2012).
- "Improved search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino oscillations in MINOS", MINOS, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 181802 (2011).
- The first MiniBooNE result (RBP thesis): Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231801 (2007). The anomalous event count below 475 MeV is discussed in a follow-up paper: Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 101802 (2009).
- "First observation of coherent π0 production in neutrino-nucleus interactions with Eν<2 GeV", MiniBooNE, Phys. Lett. B 664, 41 (2008).
- A few neutrino-nucleus cross section results in MiniBooNE: doubly-differential CC quasi-elastic scattering XS: Phys. Rev. D 81, 092005 (2010), NC π0 production: Phys. Rev. D 81, 013005 (2010), CC π0 production: Phys. Rev. D 83, 052009 (2011).
- R. B. Patterson et al., "The extended-track event reconstruction for MiniBooNE", Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 608, 206 (2009). Describes a technique for event reconstruction in Cherenkov and Cherenkov+scintillation detectors that allows for full but computationally efficient treatment of a detector's optical properties during event likelihood calculations. The approach has been taken up by many experiments since then the original MiniBooNE application (e.g. T2K).
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