Single-pion production cross sections at MiniBooNE
- Creators
- Nelson, R. H.
- Other:
- Singh, S. K.
Abstract
The MiniBooNE experiment has prepared an almost pure beam of muon-neutrinos over an energy range of a few-hundred MeV to a few GeV with a sample of roughly one-million neutrino interactions. Detailed cross-section measurements have been performed spanning 89% of the total neutrino-interaction rate. Specifically, three single-pion production mechanisms have been measured in detail. These measurements are important for a myriad of reasons: Neutral-current neutral-pion production is an important background for electron-neutrino appearance searches, Charged-current charged-pion production is the single largest background for quasi-elastic scattering and also provides the purest sample of events at these energies, and charge-current neutral-pion production provides a pure measure of incoherent pion production. Each of these processes required custom event reconstructions due to the particulars of the final-state particles. In addition, the sample selections and analyses will be discussed in detail. Many single-pion cross-section measurements, and their possible implications will be presented.
Additional Information
© 2011 American Institute of Physics. Issue Date: 23 November 2011. The author would like to acknowledge the University of Colorado, the MiniBooNE collaboration, Fermilab, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Additionally, this presentation would not have been possible without the invitation and support of the NuInt11 organizing committee.Attached Files
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Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 28490
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20111216-123613875
- University of Colorado
- MiniBooNE Collaboration
- Fermilab
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
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2011-12-23Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2022-10-26Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 1405