Conference paper

Appeared in: NuInt11: The 7th International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the FEW GEV Region

Editor list: Sing, S.K.

Publication year: 2011

Pages: 207-212

ISBN: 978-0-7354-0977-4

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3661586

Conference: 7th International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the FEW-GEV Region (NUINT11)

Title of series: AIP conference proceedings

Number in series: 1405

Abstract: 

The extraction of neutrino oscillation parameters requires the determination of the neutrino energy from observations of the hadronic final state. Here we discuss the difficulties connected with this energy reconstruction for the ongoing experiments MiniBooNE and T2K. We point out that a lower limit to the uncertainty in the reconstructed energy from Fermi motion alone amounts to about 15%. The entanglement of very different elementary processes, in this case quasielastic scattering and pion production, in the actual observables leads to considerably larger errors. We discuss the sensitivity of the energy reconstruction to detection techniques and experimental acceptances. We also calculate the misidentification cross section for electron appearance in the T2K experiment due to neutral pion production.

Harvard Citation style: Mosel, U., Lalakulich, O. and Leitner, T. (2011) Entanglement of quasielastic scattering and pion production, in Sing, S. (ed.) NuInt11: The 7th International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the FEW GEV Region. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics. pp. 207-212. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3661586

APA Citation style: Mosel, U., Lalakulich, O., & Leitner, T. (2011). Entanglement of quasielastic scattering and pion production. In Sing, S. (Ed.), NuInt11: The 7th International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the FEW GEV Region. (pp. 207-212). American Institute of Physics. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3661586