Neutrino flux prediction at MiniBooNE

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Neutrino flux prediction at MiniBooNE

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

subject

Physics Research Groups and Centres\Physics\Low Temperature Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics Particle physics Meson Faculty of Science\Physics Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena FOS: Physical sciences High Energy Physics - Experiment Massless particle MiniBooNE Nuclear physics High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)Pion Physics::Accelerator Physics High Energy Physics::Experiment Fermilab Neutrino Nuclear Experiment Neutrino oscillation Lepton

description

The booster neutrino experiment (MiniBooNE) searches for nu(mu)->nu(e) oscillations using the O(1 GeV) neutrino beam produced by the booster synchrotron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory). The booster delivers protons with 8 GeV kinetic energy (8.89 GeV/c momentum) to a beryllium target, producing neutrinos from the decay of secondary particles in the beam line. We describe the Monte Carlo simulation methods used to estimate the flux of neutrinos from the beam line incident on the MiniBooNE detector for both polarities of the focusing horn. The simulation uses the Geant4 framework for propagating particles, accounting for electromagnetic processes and hadronic interactions in the beam line materials, as well as the decay of particles. The absolute double differential cross sections of pion and kaon production in the simulation have been tuned to match external measurements, as have the hadronic cross sections for nucleons and pions. The statistical precision of the flux predictions is enhanced through reweighting and resampling techniques. Systematic errors in the flux estimation have been determined by varying parameters within their uncertainties, accounting for correlations where appropriate.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2009-04-15	Physical Review D

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.79.072002