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Single Pion production from Nuclei

We have studied charged current one pion production induced by $\nu_\mu(\bar\nu_\mu)$ from some nuclei. The calculations have been done for the incoherent pion production processes from these nuclear targets in the $\Delta$ dominance model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. K. Singh , M. Sajjad Athar , S. Ahmed

Neutrino induced 1-pion production

Neutrino-induced pion production constitutes an important contribution to neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections at intermediate energies. A deep understanding of this process is mandatory for a correct interpretation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 R. González-Jiménez , T. Van Cuyck , N. Van Dessel , V. Pandey , N. Jachowicz

Measurement of $\pi^0$ Production in $\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$ Charged-Current Interactions in the NOvA Near Detector

We present a high-statistics measurement of muon antineutrino-induced charged-current neutral pion production on a hydrocarbon target using the NOvA Near Detector. The differential cross sections as functions of the momenta and angles of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-12 The NOvA Collaboration

A Measurement of Coherent Neutral Pion Production in Neutrino Neutral Current Interactions in NOMAD

We present a study of exclusive neutral pion production in neutrino-nucleus Neutral Current interactions using data from the NOMAD experiment at the CERN SPS. The data correspond to $1.44 \times 10^6$ muon-neutrino Charged Current…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 C. T. Kullenberg , S. R. Mishra

First Estimation of Model Parameters for Neutrino-Induced Nucleon Knockout Using Simulation-Based Inference

To enable an accurate determination of oscillation parameters, accelerator-based neutrino experiments require detailed simulations of nuclear interaction physics in the GeV regime. While substantial effort from both theory and experiment is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-11 Karla Tame-Narvaez , Steven Gardiner , Aleksandra Ćiprijanović , Giuseppe Cerati

Neutrino Induced Charged Current 1$\pi^+$ Production At Intermediate Energies

The charged current one pion production induced by $\nu_\mu$ from nucleons and nuclei like $^{12}$C and $^{16}$O nuclei has been studied. The calculations have been done for the incoherent and the coherent processes from nuclear targets…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Shakeb Ahmad , M. Sajjad Athar , S. K. Singh

Status Update for the MINER$\nu$A Experiment

MINER$\nu$A (Main INjEctoR $\nu$-A) is a few-GeV neutrino cross section experiment that began taking data in the FNAL NuMI beam-line in the fall of 2009. MINER$\nu$A employs a fine-grained detector capable of complete kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-10 Gabriel Perdue

Assessing the theory-data tension in neutrino-induced charged pion production: the effect of final-state nucleon distortion

Pion production on nuclei constitutes a significant part of the total cross section in experiments involving few-GeV neutrinos. Combined analyses of data on deuterium and heavier nuclei points to tensions between the bubble chamber data and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Alexis Nikolakopoulos , Raúl González-Jiménez , Natalie Jachowicz , José Manuel Udías

Pion production in neutrino-nucleus collisions

We compare our pion production results with recent MiniBooNE data measured in mineral oil. Our total cross sections lie below experimental data for neutrino energies above 1 GeV. Differential cross sections show our model produces too few…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-17 E. Hernández , J. Nieves , M. J. Vicente Vacas

Modeling neutrino-induced charged pion production on water at T2K kinematics

Pion production is a significant component of the signal in accelerator-based neutrino experiments. Over the last years, the MiniBooNE, T2K and MINERvA collaborations have reported a substantial amount of data on (anti)neutrino-induced pion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-06 Alexis Nikolakopoulos , Raúl González-Jiménez , Kajetan Niewczas , Jan Sobczyk , Natalie Jachowicz

Neutrino-induced one-pion production revisited: the $\nu_\mu n\to\mu^- n\pi^+$ channel

Understanding single pion production reactions on free nucleons is the first step towards a correct description of these processes in nuclei, which are important for signal and background contributions in current and near future accelerator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-29 E. Hernández , J. Nieves

Neutral pion reconstruction using machine learning in the MINERvA experiment at $\langle E_\nu \rangle \sim 6$ GeV

This paper presents a novel neutral-pion reconstruction that takes advantage of the machine learning technique of semantic segmentation using MINERvA data collected between 2013-2017, with an average neutrino energy of $6$ GeV. Semantic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-04-12 A. Ghosh , B. Yaeggy , R. Galindo , Z. Ahmad Dar , F. Akbar , M. V. Ascencio , A. Bashyal , A. Bercellie , J. L. Bonilla , G. Caceres , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , H. da Motta , G. A. Díaz , J. Felix , A. Filkins , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , T. Golan , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , S. Henry , S. Jena , D. Jena , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , D. Last , T. Len , A. Lozano , X. -G. Lu , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. Mauger , K. S. McFarland , B. Messerly , J. Miller , Luis M. Montano , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , C. Nguyen , A. Olivier , V. Paolone , G. N. Perdue , M. A. Ramírez , H. Ray , D. Ruterbories , C. J. Solano Salinas , H. Su , M. Sultana , V. S. Syrotenko , E. Valencia , M. Wospakrik , C. Wret , K. Yang , L. Zazueta

Search for Antineutrino Charged Current Coherent Pion Production at SciBooNE

The SciBooNE experiment (Fermilab) recently published results of a search for charged current coherent pion production in neutrino mode: muon neutrinos scattering on carbon. The results of this study are that no evidence for coherent pion…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-14 Hide-Kazu Tanaka

Comparing pion production models to MiniBooNE data

Predictions for neutrino-induced charged- and neutral-current single pion production on CH_2 from theoretical models and Monte Carlo event generators are compared with the cross section measurements from the MiniBooNE experiment.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-11 P. A. Rodrigues

Measurement of $\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$ charged-current single $\pi^{-}$ production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

The antineutrino scattering channel $\bar{\nu}_{\mu} \,\text{CH} \rightarrow \mu^{+} \,\pi^{-} \,X$(nucleon(s)) is analyzed in the incident energy range 1.5 to 10 GeV using the MINERvA detector at Fermilab. Differential cross sections are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-09-25 T. Le , F. Akbar , L. Aliaga , D. A. Andrade , M. V. Ascencio , A. Bashyal , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , J. L. Bonilla , A. Bravar , H. Budd , G. Caceres , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , D. Coplowe , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Díaz , 5 J. Felix , L. Fields , A. Filkins , R. Fine , N. Fiza , A. M. Gago , H. Gallagher , A. Ghosh , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , S. Henry , S. Jena , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , D. Last , X. -G. Lu , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. Mauger , K. S. McFarland , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , J. G. Morfín , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , C. Nguyen , A. Norrick , Nuruzzaman , A. Olivier , V. Paolone , G. N. Perdue , M. A. Ramírez , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , D. Rimal , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , J. T. Sobczyk , C. J. Solano Salinas , H. Su , M. Sultana , V. S. Syrotenko , E. Valencia , M. Wospakrik , B. Yaeggy , L. Zazueta

Charged Pion Production in $\nu_\mu$ Interactions on Hydrocarbon at $\langle E_{\nu}\rangle$= 4.0 GeV

Charged pion production via charged current $\nu_{\mu}$ interactions on plastic (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 are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-12-02 B. Eberly , L. Aliaga , O. Altinok , M. G. Barrios Sazo , L. Bellantoni , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , A. Bravar , H. Budd , M. J. Bustamante , A. Butkevich , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , M. F. Carneiro , M. E. Christy , J. Chvojka , H. da Motta , M. Datta , J. Devan , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Díaz , J. Felix , L. Fields , R. Fine , G. A. Fiorentini , A. M. Gago , R. Galindo , H. Gallagher , T. Golan , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , A. Higuera , K. Hurtado , T. Kafka , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , T. Le , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , K. S. McFarland , C. L. McGivern , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , A. Mislivec , J. G. Morfín , J. Mousseau , T. Muhlbeier , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , A. Norrick , J. Osta , J. L. Palomino , V. Paolone , J. Park , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , L. Rakotondravohitra , M. A. Ramirez , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , L. Ren , P. A. Rodrigues , D. Ruterbories , G. Salazar , H. Schellman , D. W. Schmitz , C. Simon , J. T. Sobczyk , C. J. Solano Salinas , N. Tagg , B. G. Tice , E. Valencia , T. Walton , J. Wolcott , M. Wospakrik , G. Zavala , A. Zegarra , D. Zhang , B. P. Ziemer

Measurement of the differential cross section for neutral pion production in charged-current muon neutrino interactions on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

We present a measurement of neutral pion production in charged-current interactions using data recorded with the MicroBooNE detector exposed to Fermilab's booster neutrino beam. The signal comprises one muon, one neutral pion, any number of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-05-07 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , O. Alterkait , D. Andrade Aldana , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , J. Y. Book , M. B. Brunetti , L. Camilleri , Y. Cao , D. Caratelli , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , A. Chappell , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , A. Devitt , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , R. Fine , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , F. Gao , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , O. Hen , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , Z. Imani , B. Irwin , M. S. Ismail , C. James , X. Ji , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , D. Kalra , N. Kamp , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , N. Lane , I. Lepetic , J. -Y. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , H. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , I. Mawby , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , J. Mendez , J. Micallef , K. Miller , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. M. Moudgalya , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , K. Pletcher , I. Pophale , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , L. Ren , L. Rochester , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , I. Safa , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , W. Tang , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , A. Trettin , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , K. Wresilo , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Neutrino Flux Predictions for the NuMI Beam

Knowledge of the neutrino flux produced by the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline is essential to the neutrino oscillation and neutrino interaction measurements of the MINERvA, MINOS+, NOvA and MicroBooNE experiments at Fermi…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-05-26 MINERvA Collaboration , L. Aliaga , M. Kordosky , T. Golan , O. Altinok , L. Bellantoni , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bravar , H. Budd , M. F. Carneiro , G. A. Diaz , E. Endress , J. Felix , L. Fields , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , R. Galindo , H. Gallagher , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , A. Higuera , K. Hurtado , M. Kiveni , J. Kleykamp , T. Le , E. Maher , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. S. McFarland , C. L. McGivern , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , A. Mislivec , J. G. Morfin , J. Mousseau , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , A. Norrick , Nuruzzaman , V. Paolone , J. Park , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , L. Ren , D. Rimal , P. A. Rodrigues , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , C. J. Solano Salinas , S. Sanchez Falero , B. G. Tice , E. Valencia , T. Walton , J. Wolcott , M. Wospakrik , D. Zhang

Single $\pi^0$ production in $\mu e$ scattering at MUonE

The recently proposed MUonE experiment at CERN aims at providing a novel determination of the leading order hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment through the study of elastic muon-electron scattering at relatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-04 E. Budassi , C. M. Carloni Calame , C. L. Del Pio , F. Piccinini

One pion production in neutrino reactions: including non-resonant background

We investigate neutrino induced one pion production on nucleons. The elementary neutrino--nucleon cross section is calculated as the sum of the leading Delta pole diagram and several background diagrams obtained within the non-linear sigma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 Olga Lalakulich , Tina Leitner , Oliver Buss , Ulrich Mosel