Charged pion production in $\nu_\mu$ interactions on hydrocarbon at $\langle E_{\nu}\rangle$= 4.0 GeV

Eberly, B.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.092008

Title: Charged pion production in $$\nu_\mu$$ interactions on hydrocarbon at $$\langle E_{\nu}\rangle$$= 4.0 GeV

Journal Article · Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.092008· OSTI ID:1234905

Eberly, B. ^[1]

Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (United States). et al.

Charged pion production via charged-current νμ interactions on plastic scintillator (CH) is studied using the MINERvA detector exposed to the NuMI wideband neutrino beam at Fermilab. Events with hadronic invariant mass W < 1.4 GeV and W < 1.8 GeV are selected in separate analyses: the lower W cut isolates single pion production, which is expected to occur primarily through the Δ(1232) resonance, while results from the higher cut include the effects of higher resonances. Cross sections as functions of pion angle and kinetic energy are compared to predictions from theoretical calculations and generator-based models for neutrinos ranging in energy from 1.5–10 GeV. The data are best described by calculations which include significant contributions from pion intranuclear rescattering. As a result, these measurements constrain the primary interaction rate and the role of final state interactions in pion production, both of which need to be well understood by neutrino oscillation experiments.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Organization:: MINERvA Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1234905

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1226869

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-14-193-E; PRVDAQ; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1406.6415; TRN: US1600934

Journal Information:: Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 92, Issue 9; ISSN 1550-7998

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