Measurement of neutrino induced charged current neutral pion production cross section at SciBooNE

Thesis/Dissertation · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1128755· OSTI ID:1128755

Catala-Perez, Juan ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Valencia (Spain)

SciBooNE is a neutrino scattering experiment located in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. It collected data from June 2007 to August 2008 to accurately measure muon neutrino and anti-neutrino cross sections on carbon around 1 GeV neutrino energy. In this thesis we present the results on the measurement of the muon neutrino cross section resulting in a μ^- plus a single π⁰ final state (CC- π⁰ channel). The present work will show the steps taken to achieve this result: from the reconstruction improvements to the background extraction. The flux-averaged CC - π⁰ production cross section measurement obtained in this thesis < σCC- π⁰ > Φ = (5.6 ± 1.9_fit ± 0.7_beam ± 0.5_int - 0.7_det) × 10^-40 cm²/N at an average energy of 0.89 GeV is found to agree well both with the expectation from the Monte Ca

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1128755
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-THESIS-2014-03
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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