Neutrino Scattering Uncertainties and their Role in Long Baseline Oscillation Experiments

Journal Article · Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004

OSTI ID:838104

Harris, D A; Blazey, G; Bodek, Arie; Boehnlein, D; Boyd, S; Brooks, William; Bruell, Antje; Budd, Howard S; Burnstein, R; Casper, D; Chakravorty, A; Christy, Michael; Chvojka, Jesse; Cummings, M A.C.; deBarbaro, P; Drakoulakos, D; Dunmore, J; Ent, Rolf; Gallagher, Hugh; Gaskell, David ; Gilman, Ronald; Glashausser, Charles; Hinton, Wendy; Jiang, Xiaodong; Kafka, T; Kamaev, O; Keppel, Cynthia; Kostin, M; Kulagin, Sergey; Kumbartzki, Gerfried; Manly, Steven; Mann, W A; Mcfarland-porter, Kevin; Melnitchouk, Wolodymyr; Morfin, Jorge; Naples, D; Nelson, John; Niculescu, Gabriel; Niculescu, Maria-ioana; Oliver, W; Paolone, Michael; Paschos, Emmanuel; Pla-Dalmau, A; Ransome, Ronald; Regis, C; Rubinov, P; Rykalin, V; Sakumoto, Willis; Shanahan, P; Solomey, N; Spentzouris, P; Stamoulis, P; Tzanakos, G; Wood, Stephen; Yumiceva, F X; Ziemer, B; Zois, M

The field of oscillation physics is about to make an enormous leap forward in statistical precision: first through the MINOS experiment in the coming year, and later through the NOvA and T2K experiments. Because of the relatively poor understanding of neutrino interactions in the energy ranges of these experiments, there are systematics that can arise in interpreting far detector data that can be as large as or even larger than the expected statistical uncertainties. We describe how these systematic errors arise, and how specific measurements in a dedicated neutrino scattering experiment like MINERvA can reduce the cross section systematic errors to well below the statistical errors.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84ER40150
• OSTI ID: 838104
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-04-252-E; JLAB-PHY-04-52; DOE/ER/40150-3230; hep-ex/0410005; TRN: US0501221
• Resource Relation: Other Information: No journal information given for this preprint; PBD: 1 Oct 2004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ACCURACY
CROSS SECTIONS
ENERGY RANGE
NEUTRINOS
OSCILLATIONS
PHYSICS
SCATTERING