Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2017

Zeitschrift: Physical Review C

Bandnummer: 96

Heftnummer: 1

ISSN: 2469-9985

eISSN: 2469-9993

Open Access Status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.015503

Verlag: American Physical Society

Abstract: 

Background: Long-baseline experiments such as T2K, NOvA, or the planned Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment require theoretical descriptions of the complete event in a neutrino-nucleus reaction. Since nuclear targets are used this requires a good understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions.

Purpose: One of the dominant reaction channels in neutrino-nucleus interactions is pion production. This paper aims for a theoretically consistent treatment of all charged current charged pion production data that are available from the experiments MiniBooNE, the near detector experiment at T2K, and MINERvA.

Method: Pion production is treated through excitations of nucleon resonances, including background terms, and deep inelastic scattering. The final state interactions of the produced pions are described within the GiessenBoltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck implementation of quantum-kinetic transport theory.

Results: Results are given for MiniBooNE, the near detector experiment at T2K and for MINERvA. While the theoretical results for MiniBooNE differ from the data both in shape and magnitude, their agreement both with the T2K and the MINERvA data is good for all pion and lepton observables. Predictions for pion spectra are shown for MicroBooNE and NOvA.

Conclusions: Based on the GiBUUmodel of lepton-nucleus interactions a consistent, good theoretical description of CC charged pion production data from the T2K ND and the MINERvA experiments is possible, without any parameter tunes.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Mosel, U. and Gallmeister, K. (2017) Meuon-neutrino-induced charged-current pion production on nuclei, Physical Review C, 96(1), Article 015503. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.015503

APA-Zitierstil: Mosel, U., & Gallmeister, K. (2017). Meuon-neutrino-induced charged-current pion production on nuclei. Physical Review C. 96(1), Article 015503. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.015503