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Neutrino-nucleus CC0$\pi$ cross-section tuning in GENIE v3

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-12-14 v3

Abstract

This article summarizes the state of the art of νμ\nu_\mu and νˉμ\bar{\nu}_\mu CC0π\pi cross-section measurements on carbon and argon and discusses the relevant nuclear models, parametrizations and uncertainties in GENIE v3. The CC0π\pi event topology is common in experiments at a few-GeV energy range. Although its main contribution comes from quasi-elastic interactions, this topology is still not well understood. The GENIE global analysis framework is exploited to analyze CC0π\pi datasets from MiniBooNE, T2K and MINERvA. A partial tune for each experiment is performed, providing a common base for the discussion of tensions between datasets. The results offer an improved description of nuclear CC0π\pi datasets as well as data-driven uncertainties for each experiment. This work is a step towards a GENIE global tune that improves our understanding of neutrino interactions on nuclei. It follows from earlier GENIE work on the analysis of neutrino scattering datasets on hydrogen and deuterium.

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@article{arxiv.2206.11050,
  title  = {Neutrino-nucleus CC0$\pi$ cross-section tuning in GENIE v3},
  author = {Julia Tena-Vidal and Costas Andreopoulos and Adi Ashkenazi and Joshua Barrow and Steven Dytman and Hugh Gallagher and Alfonso Andres Garcia Soto and Steven Gardiner and Matan Goldenberg and Robert Hatcher and Or Hen and Timothy J. Hobbs and Igor D. Kakorin and Konstantin S. Kuzmin and Anselmo Meregalia and Vadim A. Naumov and Afroditi Papadopoulou and Gabriel Perdue and Marco Roda and Alon Sportes and Noah Steinberg and Vladyslav Syrotenko and Jeremy Wolcott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.11050},
  year   = {2022}
}