Measurement of the ($$\pi^-$$, Ar) total hadronic cross section at the LArIAT experiment
Abstract
We present the first measurement of the negative pion total hadronic cross section on argon, which we performed at the Liquid Argon In A Testbeam (LArIAT) experiment. All hadronic reaction channels, as well as hadronic elastic interactions with scattering angle greater than 5~degrees are included. The pions have a kinetic energies in the range 100-700~MeV and are produced by a beam of charged particles impinging on a solid target at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. LArIAT employs a 0.24~ton active mass Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) to measure the pion hadronic interactions. For this measurement, LArIAT has developed the ``thin slice method", a new technique to measure cross sections with LArTPCs. While generally higher than the prediction, our measurement of the ($$\pi^-$$,Ar) total hadronic cross section is in agreement with the prediction of the Geant4 model when considering a model uncertainty of $$\sim$$5.1%.
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- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Org.:
- LArIAT Collaboration
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1831890
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-21-307-AD-E; arXiv:2108.00040
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; oai:inspirehep.net:1897356; TRN: US2216661
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. D.
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 106; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Pions; Neutrino detectors; Particle interactions
Citation Formats
Gramellini, E., Ho, J., Acciarri, R., Adams, C., Asaadi, J., Backfish, M., Badgett, W., Baller, B., Basque, V., Benevides Rodrigues, O., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Bouabid, R., Bromberg, C., Carey, R., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Cevallos Aleman, J. I., Chatterjee, A., Dedin, P., dos Santos, M. V., Edmunds, D., Escobar, C., Esquivel, J., Evans, J. J., Falcone, A., Flanagan, W., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gastler, D., Ghosh, T., Gomes, R. A., Gran, R., Gratieri, D. R., Guzowski, P., Hahn, A., Hamilton, P., Hill, C., Holin, A., Hugon, J., Iwai, E., Jensen, D., Johnson, R. A., Kawai, H., Kearns, E., Kemp, E., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kordosky, M., Kryczyński, P., Lang, K., Linehan, R., Lockwitz, S., Luo, X., Machado, A. A. B., Marchionni, A., Maruyama, T., Mendes Santos, L., Metcalf, W., Moura, C. A., Nichol, R., Nutini, I., Olivier, A., Palamara, O., Paley, J., Parmaksiz, I., Passarelli Gelli, B., Paulucci, L., Phan, D., Pulliam, G., Raaf, J. L., Rebel, B., Reggiani Guzzo, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Schmitz, D. W., Segreto, E., Shooltz, D., Smith, D., Soares Nunes, M., Soderberg, M., Soubasis, B., Spagliardi, F., St. John, J. M., Stancari, M., Stefan, D., Stephens, M., Sulej, R., Szelc, A. M., Tabata, M., Totani, D., Tzanov, M., Walker, D., Wenzel, H., Williams, Z., Yang, T., Yu, J., Zhang, S., and Zhu, J. Measurement of the ($\pi^-$, Ar) total hadronic cross section at the LArIAT experiment. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevd.106.052009.
Gramellini, E., Ho, J., Acciarri, R., Adams, C., Asaadi, J., Backfish, M., Badgett, W., Baller, B., Basque, V., Benevides Rodrigues, O., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Bouabid, R., Bromberg, C., Carey, R., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Cevallos Aleman, J. I., Chatterjee, A., Dedin, P., dos Santos, M. V., Edmunds, D., Escobar, C., Esquivel, J., Evans, J. J., Falcone, A., Flanagan, W., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gastler, D., Ghosh, T., Gomes, R. A., Gran, R., Gratieri, D. R., Guzowski, P., Hahn, A., Hamilton, P., Hill, C., Holin, A., Hugon, J., Iwai, E., Jensen, D., Johnson, R. A., Kawai, H., Kearns, E., Kemp, E., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kordosky, M., Kryczyński, P., Lang, K., Linehan, R., Lockwitz, S., Luo, X., Machado, A. A. B., Marchionni, A., Maruyama, T., Mendes Santos, L., Metcalf, W., Moura, C. A., Nichol, R., Nutini, I., Olivier, A., Palamara, O., Paley, J., Parmaksiz, I., Passarelli Gelli, B., Paulucci, L., Phan, D., Pulliam, G., Raaf, J. L., Rebel, B., Reggiani Guzzo, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Schmitz, D. W., Segreto, E., Shooltz, D., Smith, D., Soares Nunes, M., Soderberg, M., Soubasis, B., Spagliardi, F., St. John, J. M., Stancari, M., Stefan, D., Stephens, M., Sulej, R., Szelc, A. M., Tabata, M., Totani, D., Tzanov, M., Walker, D., Wenzel, H., Williams, Z., Yang, T., Yu, J., Zhang, S., & Zhu, J. Measurement of the ($\pi^-$, Ar) total hadronic cross section at the LArIAT experiment. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.106.052009
Gramellini, E., Ho, J., Acciarri, R., Adams, C., Asaadi, J., Backfish, M., Badgett, W., Baller, B., Basque, V., Benevides Rodrigues, O., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Bouabid, R., Bromberg, C., Carey, R., Castillo Fernandez, R., Cavanna, F., Cevallos Aleman, J. I., Chatterjee, A., Dedin, P., dos Santos, M. V., Edmunds, D., Escobar, C., Esquivel, J., Evans, J. J., Falcone, A., Flanagan, W., Fleming, B. T., Foreman, W., Garcia-Gamez, D., Gastler, D., Ghosh, T., Gomes, R. A., Gran, R., Gratieri, D. R., Guzowski, P., Hahn, A., Hamilton, P., Hill, C., Holin, A., Hugon, J., Iwai, E., Jensen, D., Johnson, R. A., Kawai, H., Kearns, E., Kemp, E., Kirby, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kordosky, M., Kryczyński, P., Lang, K., Linehan, R., Lockwitz, S., Luo, X., Machado, A. A. B., Marchionni, A., Maruyama, T., Mendes Santos, L., Metcalf, W., Moura, C. A., Nichol, R., Nutini, I., Olivier, A., Palamara, O., Paley, J., Parmaksiz, I., Passarelli Gelli, B., Paulucci, L., Phan, D., Pulliam, G., Raaf, J. L., Rebel, B., Reggiani Guzzo, M., Ross-Lonergan, M., Schmitz, D. W., Segreto, E., Shooltz, D., Smith, D., Soares Nunes, M., Soderberg, M., Soubasis, B., Spagliardi, F., St. John, J. M., Stancari, M., Stefan, D., Stephens, M., Sulej, R., Szelc, A. M., Tabata, M., Totani, D., Tzanov, M., Walker, D., Wenzel, H., Williams, Z., Yang, T., Yu, J., Zhang, S., and Zhu, J. Thu .
"Measurement of the ($\pi^-$, Ar) total hadronic cross section at the LArIAT experiment". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.106.052009. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1831890.
@article{osti_1831890,
title = {Measurement of the ($\pi^-$, Ar) total hadronic cross section at the LArIAT experiment},
author = {Gramellini, E. and Ho, J. and Acciarri, R. and Adams, C. and Asaadi, J. and Backfish, M. and Badgett, W. and Baller, B. and Basque, V. and Benevides Rodrigues, O. and Blaszczyk, F. d. M. and Bouabid, R. and Bromberg, C. and Carey, R. and Castillo Fernandez, R. and Cavanna, F. and Cevallos Aleman, J. I. and Chatterjee, A. and Dedin, P. and dos Santos, M. V. and Edmunds, D. and Escobar, C. and Esquivel, J. and Evans, J. J. and Falcone, A. and Flanagan, W. and Fleming, B. T. and Foreman, W. and Garcia-Gamez, D. and Gastler, D. and Ghosh, T. and Gomes, R. A. and Gran, R. and Gratieri, D. R. and Guzowski, P. and Hahn, A. and Hamilton, P. and Hill, C. and Holin, A. and Hugon, J. and Iwai, E. and Jensen, D. and Johnson, R. A. and Kawai, H. and Kearns, E. and Kemp, E. and Kirby, M. and Kobilarcik, T. and Kordosky, M. and Kryczyński, P. and Lang, K. and Linehan, R. and Lockwitz, S. and Luo, X. and Machado, A. A. B. and Marchionni, A. and Maruyama, T. and Mendes Santos, L. and Metcalf, W. and Moura, C. A. and Nichol, R. and Nutini, I. and Olivier, A. and Palamara, O. and Paley, J. and Parmaksiz, I. and Passarelli Gelli, B. and Paulucci, L. and Phan, D. and Pulliam, G. and Raaf, J. L. and Rebel, B. and Reggiani Guzzo, M. and Ross-Lonergan, M. and Schmitz, D. W. and Segreto, E. and Shooltz, D. and Smith, D. and Soares Nunes, M. and Soderberg, M. and Soubasis, B. and Spagliardi, F. and St. John, J. M. and Stancari, M. and Stefan, D. and Stephens, M. and Sulej, R. and Szelc, A. M. and Tabata, M. and Totani, D. and Tzanov, M. and Walker, D. and Wenzel, H. and Williams, Z. and Yang, T. and Yu, J. and Zhang, S. and Zhu, J.},
abstractNote = {We present the first measurement of the negative pion total hadronic cross section on argon, which we performed at the Liquid Argon In A Testbeam (LArIAT) experiment. All hadronic reaction channels, as well as hadronic elastic interactions with scattering angle greater than 5~degrees are included. The pions have a kinetic energies in the range 100-700~MeV and are produced by a beam of charged particles impinging on a solid target at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. LArIAT employs a 0.24~ton active mass Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) to measure the pion hadronic interactions. For this measurement, LArIAT has developed the ``thin slice method", a new technique to measure cross sections with LArTPCs. While generally higher than the prediction, our measurement of the ($\pi^-$,Ar) total hadronic cross section is in agreement with the prediction of the Geant4 model when considering a model uncertainty of $\sim$5.1%.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevd.106.052009},
journal = {Physical Review. D.},
number = 5,
volume = 106,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Thu Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}
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