Journal article

Publication year: 2013

Journal: Physical Review C

Volume number: 88

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 0556-2813

eISSN: 1089-490X

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.88.017601

Publisher: American Physical Society

Abstract: 

Background: Pion production gives information on the axial form factors of nucleon resonances. It also introduces a noticeable background to quasielastic measurements on nuclear targets and thus has a significant impact on precision studies of neutrino oscillation parameters.

Purpose: To clarify neutrino-induced pion production on nucleons and nuclei.

Method: The Giessen Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck model is used for the description of neutrino-nucleus reactions.

Results: Theoretical results for differential cross sections for the T2K neutrino flux at the ND280 detector and integrated cross sections as a function of neutrino energy are given. Two sets of pion production data on elementary targets are used as inputs to obtain limits for pion production in neutrino-nucleus reactions.

Conclusions: Pion production in the T2K ND280 detector can help to narrow down the uncertainties in the elementary pion production cross sections. It can also give valuable information on the nucleon-Delta axial form factor.

Harvard Citation style: Lalakulich, O. and Mosel, U. (2013) Pion production in the T2K experiment, Physical Review C, 88(1), Article 017601. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.88.017601

APA Citation style: Lalakulich, O., & Mosel, U. (2013). Pion production in the T2K experiment. Physical Review C. 88(1), Article 017601. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.88.017601