Journal article

Publication year: 2014

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Volume number: 112

Issue number: 15

ISSN: 0031-9007

eISSN: 1079-7114

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.151802

Publisher: American Physical Society

Abstract: 
The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment aims at measuring fundamental physical parameters to high precision and exploring physics beyond the standard model. Nuclear targets introduce complications towards that aim. We investigate the uncertainties in the energy reconstruction, based on quasielastic scattering relations, due to nuclear effects. The reconstructed event distributions as a function of energy tend to be smeared out and shifted by several 100 MeV in their oscillatory structure if standard event selection is used. We show that a more restrictive experimental event selection offers the possibility to reach the accuracy needed for a determination of the mass ordering and the CP-violating phase. Quasielastic-based energy reconstruction could thus be a viable alternative to the calorimetric reconstruction also at higher energies.

Harvard Citation style: Mosel, U., Lalakulich, O. and Gallmeister, K. (2014) Energy Reconstruction in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment, Physical Review Letters, 112(15), Article 151802. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.151802

APA Citation style: Mosel, U., Lalakulich, O., & Gallmeister, K. (2014). Energy Reconstruction in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment. Physical Review Letters. 112(15), Article 151802. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.151802