scholarly journals Adjusting neutrino interaction models and evaluating uncertainties using NOvA near detector data

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Acero ◽  
P. Adamson ◽  
G. Agam ◽  
L. Aliaga ◽  
T. Alion ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Neutrino Interaction ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Order Effects ◽  
Interaction Models ◽  
Near Detector ◽  
Neutrino Oscillation Experiment ◽  
Systematic Uncertainties ◽  
Interaction Cross Sections ◽  
Detector Design

AbstractThe two-detector design of the NOvA neutrino oscillation experiment, in which two functionally identical detectors are exposed to an intense neutrino beam, aids in canceling leading order effects of cross-section uncertainties. However, limited knowledge of neutrino interaction cross sections still gives rise to some of the largest systematic uncertainties in current oscillation measurements. We show contemporary models of neutrino interactions to be discrepant with data from NOvA, consistent with discrepancies seen in other experiments. Adjustments to neutrino interaction models in GENIE are presented, creating an effective model that improves agreement with our data. We also describe systematic uncertainties on these models, including uncertainties on multi-nucleon interactions from a newly developed procedure using NOvA near detector data.

scholarly journals Measurement of the charged-current electron (anti-)neutrino inclusive cross-sections at the T2K off-axis near detector ND280

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Abe ◽  
◽  
N. Akhlaq ◽  
R. Akutsu ◽  
A. Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Electron Neutrino ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Charged Current ◽  
Total Cross Sections ◽  
Neutrino Scattering ◽  
Near Detector ◽  
Current Electron ◽  
Inclusive Electron ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The electron (anti-)neutrino component of the T2K neutrino beam constitutes the largest background in the measurement of electron (anti-)neutrino appearance at the far detector. The electron neutrino scattering is measured directly with the T2K off-axis near detector, ND280. The selection of the electron (anti-)neutrino events in the plastic scintillator target from both neutrino and anti-neutrino mode beams is discussed in this paper. The flux integrated single differential charged-current inclusive electron (anti-)neutrino cross-sections, dσ/dp and dσ/d cos(θ), and the total cross-sections in a limited phase-space in momentum and scattering angle (p > 300 MeV/c and θ ≤ 45°) are measured using a binned maximum likelihood fit and compared to the neutrino Monte Carlo generator predictions, resulting in good agreement.

A high precision narrow-band neutrino beam: The ENUBET project

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (34n35) ◽  
pp. 2044017
Author(s):  
M. Torti ◽  
F. Acerbi ◽  
A. Berra ◽  
M. Bonesini ◽  
A. Branca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Narrow Band ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Large Angle ◽  
Neutrino Energy ◽  
Neutrino Interaction ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Final State ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
Charged Leptons

The knowledge of the initial flux, energy and flavor of current neutrino beams is the main limitation for a precise measurement of neutrino cross-sections. The ENUBET ERC project is studying a facility based on a narrow-band neutrino beam capable of constraining the neutrino fluxes normalization through the monitoring of the associated charged leptons in an instrumented decay tunnel. In ENUBET, the identification of large-angle positrons from [Formula: see text] decays at single particle level can potentially reduce the [Formula: see text] flux uncertainty at the level of 1%. This setup would allow for an unprecedented measurement of the [Formula: see text] cross-section at the GeV scale. This input would be highly beneficial to reduce the budget of systematic uncertainties in the next long baseline oscillation projects. Furthermore, in narrow-band beams, the transverse position of the neutrino interaction at the detector can be exploited to determine a priori with significant precision the neutrino energy spectrum without relying on the final state reconstruction. This contribution will present the advances in the design and simulation of the hadronic beam line. Special emphasis will be given to a static focusing system of secondary mesons that can be coupled to a slow extraction proton scheme. The consequent reduction of particle rates and pile-up effects makes the determination of the [Formula: see text] flux through a direct monitoring of muons after the hadron dump viable, and paves the way to a time-tagged neutrino beam. Time-coincidences among the lepton at the source and the neutrino at the detector would enable an unprecedented purity and the possibility to reconstruct the neutrino kinematics at source on an event-by-event basis. We will also present the performance of positron tagger prototypes tested at CERN beamlines, a full simulation of the positron reconstruction chain and the expected physics reach of ENUBET.

scholarly journals Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current cross sections on water, hydrocarbon and iron, and their ratios, with the T2K on-axis detectors

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
K Abe ◽  
R Akutsu ◽  
A Ali ◽  
C Andreopoulos ◽  
L Anthony ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Laboratory Frame ◽  
Neutrino Energy ◽  
Muon Neutrino ◽  
Neutrino Interaction ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Charged Current ◽  
Measured Cross Section ◽  
Good Agreement

Abstract We report a measurement of the flux-integrated $\nu_{\mu}$ charged-current cross sections on water, hydrocarbon, and iron in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy of 1.5 GeV. The measured cross sections on water, hydrocarbon, and iron are $\sigma^{\rm{H_{2}O}}_{\rm{CC}} = (0.840\pm 0.010(\mathrm{stat.})^{+0.10}_{-0.08}(\mathrm{syst.}))\times10^{-38}\,\mathrm{cm}^2$/nucleon, $\sigma^{\rm{CH}}_{\rm{CC}} = (0.817\pm 0.007(\mathrm{stat.})^{+0.11}_{-0.08}(\mathrm{syst.}))\times10^{-38}\,\mathrm{cm}^2$/nucleon, and $\sigma^{\rm{Fe}}_{\rm{CC}} = (0.859\pm 0.003(\mathrm{stat.})^{+0.12}_{-0.10}(\mathrm{syst.}))\times10^{-38}\,\mathrm{cm}^2$/nucleon, respectively, for a restricted phase space of induced muons: $\theta_{\mu}<45^{\circ}$ and $p_{\mu}>$0.4 GeV/$c$ in the laboratory frame. The measured cross section ratios are ${\sigma^{\rm{H_{2}O}}_{\rm{CC}}}/{\sigma^{\rm{CH}}_{\rm{CC}}} = 1.028\pm 0.016(\mathrm{stat.})\pm 0.053(\mathrm{syst.})$, ${\sigma^{\rm{Fe}}_{\rm{CC}}}/{\sigma^{\rm{H_{2}O}}_{\rm{CC}}} = 1.023\pm 0.012(\mathrm{stat.})\pm 0.058(\mathrm{syst.})$, and ${\sigma^{\rm{Fe}}_{\rm{CC}}}/{\sigma^{\rm{CH}}_{\rm{CC}}} = 1.049\pm 0.010(\mathrm{stat.})\pm 0.043(\mathrm{syst.})$. These results, with an unprecedented precision for the measurements of neutrino cross sections on water in the studied energy region, show good agreement with the current neutrino interaction models used in the T2K oscillation analyses.

MINERνA: High Statistics Neutrino Scattering Using a Fine-grained Detector

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (14) ◽  
pp. 3078-3081 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
D. Naples ◽  
G. Blazey ◽  
A. Bodek ◽  
D. Boehnlein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Range ◽  
Neutrino Oscillation ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Neutrino Interaction ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Neutrino Detector ◽  
Neutrino Scattering ◽  
Fine Grained

The MINERνA experiment at Fermilab will use a fully-active scintillator based fine grained neutrino detector and the high rate NuMI neutrino beam. MINERνA will measure low energy neutrino interaction properties and cross sections to a new level of precision. These measurements will be critical input to present and future accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments in this energy range.

scholarly journals Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Near Detector Conceptual Design Report

Instruments ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Steven Manly ◽  
Mike Kordosky ◽  
On behalf of the DUNE Collaboration
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Neutrino Interaction ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Design And Technology ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Near Detector ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Deep Underground ◽  
Conceptual Design Report

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is an international, world-class experiment aimed at exploring fundamental questions about the universe that are at the forefront of astrophysics and particle physics research. DUNE will study questions pertaining to the preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of supernovae, the subtleties of neutrino interaction physics, and a number of beyond the Standard Model topics accessible in a powerful neutrino beam. A critical component of the DUNE physics program involves the study of changes in a powerful beam of neutrinos, i.e., neutrino oscillations, as the neutrinos propagate a long distance. The experiment consists of a near detector, sited close to the source of the beam, and a far detector, sited along the beam at a large distance. This document, the DUNE Near Detector Conceptual Design Report (CDR), describes the design of the DUNE near detector and the science program that drives the design and technology choices. The goals and requirements underlying the design, along with projected performance are given. It serves as a starting point for a more detailed design that will be described in future documents.

scholarly journals New physics from oscillations at the DUNE near detector, and the role of systematic uncertainties

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Coloma ◽  
Jacobo López-Pavón ◽  
Salvador Rosauro-Alcaraz ◽  
Salvador Urrea
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
Near Detector ◽  
Beam Focusing ◽  
Neutrino Production ◽  
Systematic Uncertainties ◽  
Mixing Matrix ◽  
The Impact

Abstract We study the capabilities of the DUNE near detector to probe deviations from unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix, the 3+1 sterile formalism and Non-Standard Interactions affecting neutrino production and detection. We clarify the relation and possible mappings among the three formalisms at short-baseline experiments, and we add to current analyses in the literature the study of the νμ→ ντ appearance channel. We study in detail the impact of spectral uncertainties on the sensitivity to new physics using the DUNE near detector, which has been widely overlooked in the literature. Our analysis shows that this plays an important role on the results and, in particular, that it can lead to a strong reduction in the sensitivity to sterile neutrinos from νμ→ νe transitions, by more than two orders of magnitude. This stresses the importance of a joint experimental and theoretical effort to improve our understanding of neutrino nucleus cross sections, as well as hadron production uncertainties and beam focusing effects. Nevertheless, even with our conservative and more realistic implementation of systematic uncertainties, we find that an improvement over current bounds in the new physics frameworks considered is generally expected if spectral uncertainties are below the 5% level.

RECENT RESULTS FROM K2K

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (24) ◽  
pp. 3364-3377 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
C. K. JUNG
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Oscillation ◽  
Atmospheric Neutrino ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Statistical Fluctuation ◽  
Atmospheric Neutrinos ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
Neutrino Oscillation Experiment ◽  
Oscillation Analysis ◽  
The Us ◽  
Oscillation Experiment

K2K is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using a neutrino beam produced at the KEK 12 GeV PS, a near detector complex at KEK and a far detector (Super-Kamiokande) in Kamioka, Japan. The experiment was constructed and is being operated by an international consortium of institutions from Japan, Korea, and the US. The experiment started taking data in 1999 and has successfully taken data for about two years. K2K is the first long beseline neutrino oscillation experiment with a baseline of order hundreds of km and is the first accelerator based neutrino oscillation experiment that is sensitive to the Super-Kamiokande allowed region obtained from the atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis. A total of 44 events have been observed in the far detector during the period of June 1999 to April 2001 corresponding to 3.85 × 1019 protons on target. The observation is consistent with the neutrino oscillation expectations based on the oscillation parameters derived from the atmospheric neutrinos, and the probability that this is a statistical fluctuation of non-oscillation expectation of [Formula: see text] is less than 3%.

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