Measurement of neutrino-induced charged-current charged pion production cross sections on mineral oil at E{sub {nu}{approx}1} GeV

Journal Article · Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2011 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.83.052007· OSTI ID:21578160

Aguilar-Arevalo, A A ^[1]; Anderson, C E; Curioni, A; Fleming, B T; Linden, S K; Soderberg, M; Spitz, J ^[2]; Bazarko, A O; Laird, E M; Meyers, P D; Patterson, R B; Shoemaker, F C; Tanaka, H A ^[3]; Brice, S J; Brown, B C; Finley, D A; Ford, R; Garcia, F G; Kasper, P; Kobilarcik, T ^[4]

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1. Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, D.F. 04510 (Mexico)
2. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 (United States)
3. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)
4. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)

Using a high-statistics, high-purity sample of {nu}{sub {mu}-}induced charged current, charged pion events in mineral oil (CH{sub 2}), MiniBooNE reports a collection of interaction cross sections for this process. This includes measurements of the CC{pi}{sup +} cross section as a function of neutrino energy, as well as flux-averaged single- and double-differential cross sections of the energy and direction of both the final-state muon and pion. In addition, each of the single-differential cross sections are extracted as a function of neutrino energy to decouple the shape of the MiniBooNE energy spectrum from the results. In many cases, these cross sections are the first time such quantities have been measured on a nuclear target and in the 1 GeV energy range.

• OSTI ID: 21578160
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 83, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.052007; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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