Measurement of the Ratio of theνμCharged-Current Single-Pion Production to Quasielastic Scattering with a 0.8 GeV Neutrino Beam on Mineral Oil

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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Measurement of the Ratio of theνμCharged-Current Single-Pion Production to Quasielastic Scattering with a 0.8 GeV Neutrino Beam on Mineral Oil

A. A. Aguilar-arevalo C. E. Anderson A. O. Bazarko S. J. Brice B. C. Brown L. Bugel J. Cao L. Coney J. M. Conrad D. C. Cox A. Curioni Z. Djurcic D. A. Finley B. T. Fleming R. Ford F. G. Garcia G. T. Garvey C. Green J. A. Green T. L. Hart E. Hawker R. Imlay R. A. Johnson G. Karagiorgi P. Kasper T. Katori T. Kobilarcik I. Kourbanis S. Koutsoliotas E. M. Laird S. K. Linden J. M. Link Y. Liu Y. Liu W. C. Louis K. B. M. Mahn W. Marsh V. T. Mcgary G. Mcgregor W. Metcalf P. D. Meyers F. Mills G. B. Mills J. Monroe C. D. Moore R. H. Nelson P. Nienaber J. A. Nowak B. Osmanov S. Ouedraogo R. B. Patterson D. Perevalov C. C. Polly E. Prebys J. L. Raaf H. Ray B. P. Roe A. D. Russell V. Sandberg R. Schirato D. Schmitz M. H. Shaevitz F. C. Shoemaker D. Smith M. Soderberg M. Sorel P. Spentzouris J. Spitz I. Stancu R. J. Stefanski M. Sung H. A. Tanaka R. Tayloe M. Tzanov R. Van De Water M. O. Wascko D. H. White M. J. Wilking H. J. Yang G. P. Zeller E. D. Zimmerman

subject

Nuclear physics Physics MiniBooNE Particle physics Muon Pion Hadron General Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics::Experiment Neutrino Energy source Charged current Lepton

description

Charged current single pion production (CC{pi}{sup +}) and charged current quasi-elastic scattering (CCQE) are the most abundant interaction types for neutrinos at energies around 1 GeV, a region of great interest to oscillation experiments. The cross-sections for these processes, however, are not well understood in this energy range. This dissertation presents a measurement of the ratio of CC{pi}{sup +} to CCQE cross-sections for muon neutrinos on mineral oil (CH{sub 2}) in the MiniBooNE experiment. The measurement is presented here both with and without corrections for hadronic re-interactions in the target nucleus and is given as a function of neutrino energy in the range 0.4 GeV < E{sub {nu}} < 2.4 GeV. With more than 46,000 CC{pi}{sup +} events collected in MiniBooNE, and with a fractional uncertainty of roughly 11% in the region of highest statistics, this measurement represents a dramatic improvement in statistics and precision over previous CC{pi}{sup +} and CCQE measurements.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2009-08-17	Physical Review Letters

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.103.081801