Data Preservation at MINERvA

R. Fine, B. Messerly, K. S. McFarland, S. Akhter, V. Ansari, M. V. Ascencio, J. L. Bonilla, H. da Motta, L. Fields, R. Gran, E. Granados, D. A. Harris, D. Jena, S. Jena, J. Kleykamp, A. Klustová, X. -G. Lu, W. A. Mann, A. Olivier, K. -J. Plows, D. Ruterbories, H. Schellman, H. Su, E. Valencia, B. Yaeggy

Published 2020-09-09, updated 2022-09-27Version 2

Between 2013 and 2019 MINERvA collected an accelerator neutrino interaction dataset that is uniquely relevant to the energy range of DUNE. These are the only currently available data at intermediate and high momentum transfers for multiple nuclear targets in the same beam. MINERvA is undertaking a campaign to preserve these data and make them publicly available so that they may be analyzed beyond the end of the MINERvA collaboration. We encourage the community to consider the development of centralized resources to enable long-term access to these data and analysis tools for the entire HEP community.