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Title: Using world π ± -nucleus scattering data to constrain an intranuclear cascade model

Abstract

The NEUT intranuclear cascade model is described and fit to a large body of π±-nucleus scattering data. Methods are developed to deal with deficiencies in the available historical data, and robust uncertainty estimates are produced. The results are compared to a variety of simulation packages and the data. This work provides a method for tuning final state interaction models, which are of particular interest to neutrino experiments that operate in the few-GeV energy region, and provides results which can be used directly by the T2K and Super-Kamiokande Collaborations, for whom NEUT is the primary simulation package.

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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS); Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1503940
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1526476; OSTI ID: 1607731
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; SAPPJ-2014-00031; RISE-GA644294-JENNIFER; SC0008475
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 99 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Wilkinson, C., Bhadra, S., Bolognesi, S., Calcutt, J., de Perio, P., Dolan, S., Feusels, T., Fiorentini, G. A., Hayato, Y., Ieki, K., Mahn, K., McFarland, K. S., Paolone, V., Pickering, L., Tacik, R., Tanaka, H. A., Terri, R., Wascko, M. O., Wilking, M. J., Wret, C., and Yu, M. Using world π ± -nucleus scattering data to constrain an intranuclear cascade model. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.052007.
Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Wilkinson, C., Bhadra, S., Bolognesi, S., Calcutt, J., de Perio, P., Dolan, S., Feusels, T., Fiorentini, G. A., Hayato, Y., Ieki, K., Mahn, K., McFarland, K. S., Paolone, V., Pickering, L., Tacik, R., Tanaka, H. A., Terri, R., Wascko, M. O., Wilking, M. J., Wret, C., & Yu, M. Using world π ± -nucleus scattering data to constrain an intranuclear cascade model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.052007
Guerra, E. S. Pinzon, Wilkinson, C., Bhadra, S., Bolognesi, S., Calcutt, J., de Perio, P., Dolan, S., Feusels, T., Fiorentini, G. A., Hayato, Y., Ieki, K., Mahn, K., McFarland, K. S., Paolone, V., Pickering, L., Tacik, R., Tanaka, H. A., Terri, R., Wascko, M. O., Wilking, M. J., Wret, C., and Yu, M. Fri . "Using world π ± -nucleus scattering data to constrain an intranuclear cascade model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.052007.
@article{osti_1503940,
title = {Using world π ± -nucleus scattering data to constrain an intranuclear cascade model},
author = {Guerra, E. S. Pinzon and Wilkinson, C. and Bhadra, S. and Bolognesi, S. and Calcutt, J. and de Perio, P. and Dolan, S. and Feusels, T. and Fiorentini, G. A. and Hayato, Y. and Ieki, K. and Mahn, K. and McFarland, K. S. and Paolone, V. and Pickering, L. and Tacik, R. and Tanaka, H. A. and Terri, R. and Wascko, M. O. and Wilking, M. J. and Wret, C. and Yu, M.},
abstractNote = {The NEUT intranuclear cascade model is described and fit to a large body of π±-nucleus scattering data. Methods are developed to deal with deficiencies in the available historical data, and robust uncertainty estimates are produced. The results are compared to a variety of simulation packages and the data. This work provides a method for tuning final state interaction models, which are of particular interest to neutrino experiments that operate in the few-GeV energy region, and provides results which can be used directly by the T2K and Super-Kamiokande Collaborations, for whom NEUT is the primary simulation package.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.99.052007},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 5,
volume = 99,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: The normalized three-parameter (two-parameter) Fermi model nuclear potentials shown for various nuclei (oxygen). Reproduced from Ref. [20].

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