Neutrino-Argon Interaction with GENIE Event Generator

Journal Article · Wed Nov 24 04:00:00 EST 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3527252· OSTI ID:21506891

Chesneanu, Daniela ^[1]

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1. Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest (Romania)

Neutrinos are very special particles, have only weak interactions, except gravity, and are produced in very different processes in Nuclear and Particle Physics. Neutrinos are, also, messengers from astrophysical objects, as well as relics from Early Universe. Therefore, its can give us information on processes happening in the Universe, during its evolution, which cannot be studied otherwise. The underground instrumentation including a variety of large and very large detectors, thanks to technical breakthroughs, have achieved new fundamental results like the solution of the solar neutrino puzzle and the evidence for Physics beyond the Standard Model of elementary interactions in the neutrino sector with non-vanishing neutrino masses and lepton flavour violation.Two of the LAGUNA(Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics) detectors, namely: GLACIER (Giant Liquid Argon Charge Imaging ExpeRiment) and LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astrophysics) could be emplaced in 'Unirea' salt mine from Slanic-Prahova, Romania. A detailed analysis of the conditions and advantages is necessary. A few results have been presented previously. In the present work, we propose to generate events and compute the cross sections for interactions between neutrino and Argon-40, to estimate possible detection performances and event types. For doing this, we use the code GENIE(G lowbar enerates E lowbar vents for N lowbar eutrino I lowbar nteraction E lowbar xperiments). GENIE Code is an Object-Oriented Neutrino MC Generator supported and developed by an international collaboration of neutrino interaction experts.

• OSTI ID: 21506891
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1304; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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COMPOSITE MODELS
CROSS SECTIONS
DETECTION
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LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
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LIGHT NUCLEI
MASS
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MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NEUTRINO DETECTION
NEUTRINO-NEUTRON INTERACTIONS
NEUTRINO-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
NEUTRINOS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEI
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
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STABLE ISOTOPES
STANDARD MODEL
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UNIVERSE
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