A Measurement of the Two Track Charged Current Quasi-Elastic Cross Section with the MINER$$\nu$$A Detector
- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
The MINER$$\nu$$A detector collected 1.2 × 1020 POT of $$\nu$$μ data with the NuMI beam at Fermi National Laboratory from 03/2010 to 07/2010. I will describe an analysis to identify two track charged current muon neutrino quasi-elastic interactions using this data set. The final state muon was identified by curvature using the MINOS detector. The final state contained proton was identified by the energy deposited per unit length at the end of the track. Two additional cuts were applied to separate signal from background: a cut on the extra energy in the event and a cut on a proton energy dependent variable. The dσ/dQ2 using this selection is presented. An initial list of systematic errors is introduced and calculated. In addition to this analysis work, I also developed both pattern recognition schemes used by the experiment, wrote MINOS muon track matching algorithms, implemented a Kalman Filter track fitting algorithm and contributed to various other tasks to the MINER$$\nu$$A experiment; I will provide an explanation of these. I will also give a brief overview of neutrino physics, the NuMI beam, and the MINER$$\nu$$A detector.
- 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:
- 1209542
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-THESIS-2012-62
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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