Measurement of total and differential cross sections of neutrino and antineutrino coherent 
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 production on carbon

Mislivec, A.; Higuera, A.; Aliaga, L.; Bellantoni, L.; Bercellie, A.; Betancourt, M.; Bodek, A.; Bravar, A.; Budd, H. S.; Cáceres, G.; Cai, T.; Caicedo, D. A. Martínez; Carneiro, M. F.; Chavarria, E.; Motta, H. da; Dytman, S.; Díaz, G. A.; Félix, J.; Fields, L.; Fine, R.; Gago, A. M.; Galindo, R.; Gallagher, H.; Ghosh, A.; Gran, R.; Harris, Deborah A.; Hurtado, K.; Jena, D.; Kleykamp, J.; Kordosky, M.; Le, T.; Maher, E.; Manly, S.; Mann, W. A.; Marshall, C.; McFarland, K. S.; Messerly, B.; Miller, J.; Morfín, J. G.; Mousseau, J.; Naples, D.; Nelson, J. K.; Nguyen, C. N.; Norrick, A.; Nuruzzaman, N.; Paolone, V.; Perdue, G. N.; Ramírez, M. A.; Ransome, R. D.; Ray, H.; Ren, Lu; Rimal, D.; Rodrigues, P. A.; Ruterbories, D.; Schellman, H.; Salinas, C. J. Solano; Sultana, M.; Falero, S. Sánchez; Tagg, N.; Valencia, E.; Wospakrik, M.; Yaeggy, B.; Zavala, G.

doi:10.1103/physrevd.97.032014

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“…GENIE uses the Rein-Sehgal coherent pion production model [36,37], including the effect of lepton masses in the cross-section calculation. MINERvA has found that the RS coherent pion production model needs to be suppressed by ∼ 50% at T π < 500 MeV to agree with data [27]. This correction also moves the shape of the T π spectrum closer to the predictions of the Berger-Sehgal coherent model [38].…”

Section: Pion Production In Geniementioning

confidence: 83%

“…The twoparticle two-hole process is simulated using the Valencia model [11,25]. MINERvA currently uses a modification of v2.8.4 [19,26,27] with an increased rate for the Valencia two-particle two-hole process; that modification is not used here. An important difference in single pion production between v2.8.x and v2.12.x is the angular distributions of single pion events in the Rein-Sehgal model, discussed below.…”

Section: Pion Production In Geniementioning

confidence: 99%

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Tuning the genie pion production model with MINERvA data

Stowell¹,

Pickering²,

Wilkinson³

et al. 2019

Phys. Rev. D

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Faced with unresolved tensions between neutrino interaction measurements at few-GeV neutrino energies, current experiments are forced to accept large systematic uncertainties to cover discrepancies between their data and model predictions. In this paper, the widely used pion production model in GENIE is compared to four MINERvA charged current pion production measurements using NUISANCE. Tunings, i.e., adjustments of model parameters, to help match GENIE to MIN-ERvA and older bubble chamber data are presented here. We find that scattering off nuclear targets as measured in MINERvA is not in good agreement with expectations based upon scattering off nucleon (hydrogen or deuterium) targets in existing bubble chamber data. An additional ad hoc correction for the low-Q 2 region, where collective nuclear effects are expected to be large, is presented. While these tunings and corrections improve the agreement of GENIE with the data, the modeling is imperfect. The development of these tunings within the NUISANCE framework allows for straightforward extensions to other neutrino event generators and models, and allows omitting and including new data sets as they become available.

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Section: Pion Production In Geniementioning

confidence: 83%

Section: Pion Production In Geniementioning

confidence: 99%

Tuning the genie pion production model with MINERvA data

Stowell¹,

Pickering²,

Wilkinson³

et al. 2019

Phys. Rev. D

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“…The charged current version serves mainly as a background to µ + µ − tridents, but can also appear as a background for e ± µ ∓ tridents for incoming electron neutrinos or antineutrinos. It has been studied before at MiniBooNE [60], MINERνA [61,62], T2K [28,63], and for the first time in LAr at ArgoNeuT [64]. This process has a very distict low 4-momentum transfer to the nucleus |t| [61], but a much flatter distribution in invariant mass if compared to trident.…”

Section: C1 Pion Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neutrino trident scattering at near detectors

Ballett

Hostert

Pascoli

et al. 2019

J. High Energ. Phys.

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Neutrino trident scattering is a rare Standard Model process where a chargedlepton pair is produced in neutrino-nucleus scattering. To date, only the dimuon final-state has been observed, with around 100 total events, while the other channels are as yet unexplored. In this work, we compute the trident production cross section by performing a complete four-body phase space calculation for different hadronic targets. This provides a correct estimate both of the coherent and the diffractive contributions to these cross sections, but also allows us to address certain inconsistencies in the literature related to the use of the Equivalent Photon Approximation in this context. We show that this approximation can give a reasonable estimate only for the production of dimuon final-states in coherent scattering, being inadmissible for all other cases considered. We provide estimates of the number and distribution of trident events at several current and future near detector facilities subjected to intense neutrino beams from accelerators: five liquid-argon detectors (SBND, µBooNE, ICARUS, DUNE and νSTORM), the iron detector of T2K (INGRID) and three detectors made of composite material (MINOS, NOνA and MINERνA). We find that for many experiments, trident measurements are an attainable goal and a valuable addition to their near detector physics programme.

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“…The excess in sideband 4 is attributed to coherent events, allowing the normalization of that background to float in the background fits, which are performed by computing a χ 2 summed over distributions in each of the four sidebands. Because MINERνA studies of both neutral-current diffractive [28] and charged-current coherent π 0 production [29] have found significant discrepancies with GENIE predictions that vary with energy, the normalization of the coherent background is allowed to vary separately for each of the six electron energy bins. For the other three backgrounds, the fit includes a single normalization factor that is constant with reconstructed energy.…”

Section: Background Subtractionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Constraint of the MINERν A medium energy neutrino flux using neutrino-electron elastic scattering

Valencia¹,

Jena²,

Nuruzzaman³

et al. 2019

Phys. Rev. D

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Elastic neutrino scattering on electrons is a precisely-known purely leptonic process that provides a standard candle for measuring neutrino flux in conventional neutrino beams. Using a total sample of 810 neutino-electron scatters after background subtraction, the measurement reduces the normalization uncertainty on the νµ NuMI flux between 2 and 20 GeV from 7.5% to 3.9%. This is the most precise measurement of neutrino-electron scattering to date, will reduce uncertainties on MINERνA's absolute cross section measurements, and demonstrates a technique that can be used in future neutrino beams such as LBNF.PACS numbers: definitely not 99.99+z

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Measurement of total and differential cross sections of neutrino and antineutrino coherent π± production on carbon

Cited by 32 publications

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Tuning the genie pion production model with MINERvA data

Tuning the genie pion production model with MINERvA data

Neutrino trident scattering at near detectors

Constraint of the MINERν A medium energy neutrino flux using neutrino-electron elastic scattering

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