MINERvA Open Data Tutorial

Wednesday 3 Jun 2026, 09:00 → 14:15 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

A workshop on MINERvA's Open Data Product with a hands-on tutorial to reproduce a consistent result to a published MINERvA neutrino nucleus interaction cross section measurement.  Can attend in person or via Zoom. 

Please see one of the attached files (InformationforParticipants.txt) for more information about what is needed to participate.

There are three slide decks to read in advance.  These were originally constructed for a MINERvA tutorial (called MINERvA 101) held across multiple days, then after an update used again for the tutorial event at Fermilab in March.   We have one or two additional updates to get in.  They explain the detectors in MINERvA as well as the importance behind and procedure to extract interaction cross sections.

Link to the GitHub landing page for the MINERvA101 tutorial. https://github.com/MinervaExpt/MINERvA-101-Cross-Section

and the wiki section for MINERvA101

https://github.com/MinervaExpt/MINERvA-101-Cross-Section/wiki

And especially start here

https://github.com/MinervaExpt/MINERvA-101-Cross-Section/wiki/Prerequisites

And do the Prerequisites and Installation sections before arriving at the tutorial which includes downloading a portion of the data and setting up the basic software from which we will launch the tutorial.

Closer to the event we will circulate a zoom link to participants and also post a link to a live Google Doc for Q&A during the tutorial, especially from people connecting via zoom.

If you plan to attend in person at CERN and are not familiar with arrangements to gain access to the site and/or make a reservation at the on-site hotel, let us know and we can point you to them.   We have NOT pre-booked rooms at the on-site hotel.   Rik will be on site for an extra two days before and possibly a day after if you want to linger and ask more questions.

Official MINERvA Tutorial at CERN Contacts:

Rik Gran (rgran@d.umn.edu) on site at CERN

David Last (david.last@rochester.edu) MINERvA open data leader

Anežka Klustova will be on zoom and watching the google doc.

AAAInformationForParticipants.txt

CrossSection_Part1_Alex_Ramirez.pdf

CrossSection_Part2_Extraction_Alex_Ramirez.pdf

MINERvA_MINOS_Detectors_Overview_Gonzalo_Diaz.pdf

09:00 → 09:30 Open Data Product and Overview

Speaker: Richard William Gran (University of Minnesota (US))

David_Last_MINERvA_Tutorial _Slides_1_March_3_2026.pdf

09:30 → 10:45 Coding Time I

Time for coding (and installing if you did not do it in advance). Questions taken in the room with two MINERvA experts and/or online via a live Google Doc.

Speaker: Richard William Gran (University of Minnesota (US))

10:45 → 11:00 Short Break

11:00 → 11:15 Two roads diverge, explained

Do you take the cross section road or the reco distribution road ?

Speaker: Richard William Gran (University of Minnesota (US))

David_Last_MINERvA_Tutorial _Slides_2_March_3_2026.pdf

11:15 → 12:30 Coding Time II

Coding Time II with Q&A live in the room and/or online via the live Google Doc.

12:30 → 13:00 Debrief & Discussion

Speaker: Richard William Gran (University of Minnesota (US))

13:00 → 13:20 To lunch at R1 before they stop serving