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Simplified models for photohadronic interactions in cosmic accelerators

We discuss simplified models for photo-meson production in cosmic accelerators, such as Active Galactic Nuclei and Gamma-Ray Bursts. Our self-consistent models are directly based on the underlying physics used in the SOPHIA software, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Svenja Hümmer , Michael Rüger , Felix Spanier , Walter Winter

Measurement of $\nu_{\mu}$ charged-current single $\pi^{0}$ production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

The semi-exclusive channel $\nu_{\mu}+\textrm{CH}\rightarrow\mu^{-}\pi^{0}+\textrm{nucleon(s)}$ is analyzed using MINERvA exposed to the low-energy NuMI $\nu_{\mu}$ beam with spectral peak at $E_{\nu} \simeq 3$ GeV. Differential cross…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-02 O. Altinok , T. Le , L. Aliaga , L. Bellantoni , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , A. Bravar , H. Budd , G. F. R. Caceres Vera , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , H. da Motta , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Díaz , J. Felix , L. Fields , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , R. Galindo , H. Gallagher , A. Ghosh , R. Gran , J. Y. Han , D. A. Harris , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. S. McFarland , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , A. Mislivec , J. G. Morfín , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , A. Norrick , Nuruzzaman , V. Paolone , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , M. A. Ramirez , R. D. Ransome , H. Ray , L. Ren , D. Rimal , P. A. Rodrigues , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , J. T. Sobczyk , C. J. Solano Salinas , M. Sultana , S. Sánchez Falero , E. Valencia , J. Wolcott , B. Yaeggy

Event Generator Tuning as a Robustness Test

Neutrino oscillation experiments use Monte Carlo event generators to predict neutrino-nucleus interactions. Cross section uncertainties are typically implemented by varying the parameters of the model(s) used in the generator. We study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Jean Wolfs , Chris M. Marshall

Coherent Pion Production in Neutrino Nucleus Scattering

In this article, we study the coherent pion production in neutrino-nucleus interaction in the resonance region using the formalism based on partially conserved axial current (PCAC) theorem which relates the neutrino-nucleus cross section to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-06 Kapil Saraswat , Prashant Shukla , Vineet Kumar , Venktesh Singh

First Measurement of the Electron Neutrino Charged-Current Pion Production Cross Section on Carbon with the T2K Near Detector

The T2K Collaboration presents the first measurement of electron neutrino-induced charged-current pion production on carbon in a restricted kinematical phase space. This is performed using data from the 2.5$^{\deg}$ off-axis near detector,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-10 K. Abe , S. Abe , R. Akutsu , H. Alarakia-Charles , Y. I. Alj Hakim , S. Alonso Monsalve , L. Anthony , S. Aoki , K. A. Apte , T. Arai , T. Arihara , S. Arimoto , E. T. Atkin , N. Babu , V. Baranov , G. J. Barker , G. Barr , D. Barrow , P. Bates , L. Bathe-Peters , M. Batkiewicz-Kwasniak , N. Baudis , V. Berardi , L. Berns , S. Bhattacharjee , A. Blanchet , A. Blondel , P. M. M. Boistier , S. Bolognesi , S. Bordoni , S. B. Boyd , C. Bronner , A. Bubak , M. Buizza Avanzini , J. A. Caballero , F. Cadoux , N. F. Calabria , S. Cao , S. Cap , D. Carabadjac , S. L. Cartwright , M. P. Casado , M. G. Catanesi , J. Chakrani , A. Chalumeau , D. Cherdack , A. Chvirova , J. Coleman , G. Collazuol , F. Cormier , A. A. L. Craplet , A. Cudd , D. D'ago , C. Dalmazzone , T. Daret , P. Dasgupta , C. Davis , Yu. I. Davydov , P. de Perio , G. De Rosa , T. Dealtry , C. Densham , A. Dergacheva , R. Dharmapal Banerjee , F. Di Lodovico , G. Diaz Lopez , S. Dolan , D. Douqa , T. A. Doyle , O. Drapier , K. E. Duffy , J. Dumarchez , P. Dunne , K. Dygnarowicz , A. Eguchi , J. Elias , S. Emery-Schrenk , G. Erofeev , A. Ershova , G. Eurin , D. Fedorova , S. Fedotov , M. Feltre , L. Feng , D. Ferlewicz , A. J. Finch , M. D. Fitton , C. Forza , M. Friend , Y. Fujii , Y. Fukuda , Y. Furui , J. García-Marcos , A. C. Germer , L. Giannessi , C. Giganti , M. Girgus , V. Glagolev , M. Gonin , R. González Jiménez , J. González Rosa , E. A. G. Goodman , K. Gorshanov , P. Govindaraj , M. Grassi , M. Guigue , F. Y. Guo , D. R. Hadley , S. Han , D. A. Harris , R. J. Harris , T. Hasegawa , C. M. Hasnip , S. Hassani , N. C. Hastings , Y. Hayato , I. Heitkamp , D. Henaff , Y. Hino , J. Holeczek , A. Holin , T. Holvey , N. T. Hong Van , T. Honjo , M. C. F. Hooft , K. Hosokawa , J. Hu , A. K. Ichikawa , K. Ieki , M. Ikeda , T. Ishida , M. Ishitsuka , H. Ito , S. Ito , A. Izmaylov , N. Jachowicz , S. J. Jenkins , C. Jesús-Valls , M. Jia , J. J. Jiang , J. Y. Ji , T. P. Jones , P. Jonsson , S. Joshi , M. Kabirnezhad , A. C. Kaboth , H. Kakuno , J. Kameda , S. Karpova , V. S. Kasturi , Y. Kataoka , T. Katori , A. Kawabata , Y. Kawamura , M. Kawaue , E. Kearns , M. Khabibullin , A. Khotjantsev , T. Kikawa , S. King , V. Kiseeva , J. Kisiel , A. Klustová , L. Kneale , H. Kobayashi , L. Koch , S. Kodama , M. Kolupanova , A. Konaka , L. L. Kormos , Y. Koshio , K. Kowalik , Y. Kudenko , Y. Kudo , A. Kumar Jha , R. Kurjata , V. Kurochka , T. Kutter , L. Labarga , M. Lachat , K. Lachner , J. Lagoda , S. M. Lakshmi , M. Lamers James , A. Langella , D. H. Langridge , J. -F. Laporte , D. Last , N. Latham , M. Laveder , L. Lavitola , M. Lawe , D. Leon Silverio , S. Levorato , S. V. Lewis , B. Li , C. Lin , R. P. Litchfield , S. L. Liu , W. Li , A. Longhin , A. Lopez Moreno , L. Ludovici , X. Lu , T. Lux , L. N. Machado , L. Magaletti , K. Mahn , K. K. Mahtani , S. Manly , A. D. Marino , D. G. R. Martin , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , L. Martinez , M. Martini , T. Matsubara , R. Matsumoto , V. Matveev , C. Mauger , K. Mavrokoridis , N. McCauley , K. S. McFarland , C. McGrew , J. McKean , A. Mefodiev , G. D. Megias , L. Mellet , C. Metelko , M. Mezzetto , S. Miki , V. Mikola , E. W. Miller , A. Minamino , O. Mineev , S. Mine , J. Mirabito , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , S. Moriyama , P. Morrison , Th. A. Mueller , D. Munford , A. Muñoz , L. Munteanu , Y. Nagai , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakagiri , M. Nakahata , Y. Nakajima , K. D. Nakamura , A. Nakano , Y. Nakano , S. Nakayama , T. Nakaya , K. Nakayoshi , C. E. R. Naseby , D. T. Nguyen , V. Q. Nguyen , K. Niewczas , S. Nishimori , Y. Nishimura , Y. Noguchi , T. Nosek , F. Nova , J. C. Nugent , H. M. O'Keeffe , L. O'Sullivan , R. Okazaki , W. Okinaga , K. Okumura , T. Okusawa , N. Onda , N. Ospina , L. Osu , Y. Oyama , V. Paolone , J. Pasternak , D. Payne , M. Pfaff , L. Pickering , B. Popov , A. J. Portocarrero Yrey , M. Posiadala-Zezula , Y. S. Prabhu , H. Prasad , F. Pupilli , B. Quilain , P. T. Quyen , E. Radicioni , B. Radics , M. A. Ramirez , R. Ramsden , P. N. Ratoff , M. Reh , G. Reina , C. Riccio , D. W. Riley , E. Rondio , S. Roth , N. Roy , A. Rubbia , L. Russo , A. Rychter , W. Saenz , K. Sakashita , S. Samani , F. Sánchez , E. M. Sandford , Y. Sato , T. Schefke , K. Scholberg , M. Scott , Y. Seiya , T. Sekiguchi , H. Sekiya , T. Sekiya , D. Seppala , D. Sgalaberna , A. Shaikhiev , M. Shiozawa , Y. Shiraishi , A. Shvartsman , N. Skrobova , K. Skwarczynski , D. Smyczek , M. Smy , J. T. Sobczyk , H. Sobel , F. J. P. Soler , A. J. Speers , R. Spina , A. Srivastava , P. Stowell , Y. Stroke , I. A. Suslov , A. Suzuki , S. Y. Suzuki , M. Tada , S. Tairafune , A. Takeda , Y. Takeuchi , K. Takeya , H. K. Tanaka , H. Tanigawa , V. V. Tereshchenko , N. Thamm , C. Touramanis , N. Tran , T. Tsukamoto , M. Tzanov , Y. Uchida , M. Vagins , S. Valder , M. Varghese , I. Vasilyev , G. Vasseur , E. Villa , U. Virginet , T. Vladisavljevic , T. Wachala , D. Wakabayashi , H. T. Wallace , J. G. Walsh , D. Wark , M. O. Wascko , A. Weber , R. Wendell , M. J. Wilking , C. Wilkinson , J. R. Wilson , K. Wood , C. Wret , J. Xia , K. Yamamoto , T. Yamamoto , C. Yanagisawa , Y. Yang , T. Yano , N. Yershov , U. Yevarouskaya , M. Yokoyama , Y. Yoshimoto , N. Yoshimura , R. Zaki , A. Zalewska , J. Zalipska , G. Zarnecki , J. Zhang , X. Y. Zhao , H. Zheng , H. Zhong , T. Zhu , M. Ziembicki , E. D. Zimmerman , M. Zito , S. Zsoldos

Measurement of the Multi-Neutron $\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$ Charged Current Differential Cross Section at Low Available Energy on Hydrocarbon

Neutron production in antineutrino interactions can lead to bias in energy reconstruction in neutrino oscillation experiments, but these interactions have rarely been studied. MINERvA previously studied neutron production at an average…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-23 A. Olivier , T. Cai , S. Akhter , Z. Ahmad Dar , V. Ansari , M. V. Ascencio , M. Sajjad Athar , A. Bashyal , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , J. L. Bonilla , A. Bravar , H. Budd , G. Caceres , G. A. Díaz , J. Felix , L. Fields , A. Filkins , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , P. K. Gaur , S. M. Gilligan , R. Gran , E. Granados , D. A. Harris , A. L. Hart , D. Jena , S. Jena , J. Kleykamp , A. Klustová , M. Kordosky , D. Last , A. Lozano , X. -G. Lu , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. Mauger , K. S. McFarland , B. Messerly , O. Moreno , J. G. Morfín , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , C. Nguyen , V. Paolone , G. N. Perdue , C. Pernas , K. -J. Plows , M. A. Ramírez , H. Ray , N. Roy , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , C. J. Solano Salinas , M. Sultana , V. S. Syrotenko , E. Valencia , N. H. Vaughan , A. V. Waldron , B. Yaeggy , L. Zazueta

Forward production of charged pions with incident $\pi^{\pm}$ on nuclear targets measured at the CERN PS

Measurements of the double-differential $\pi^{\pm}$ production cross-section in the range of momentum $0.5 \GeVc \leq p \le 8.0 \GeVc$ and angle $0.025 \rad \leq \theta \le 0.25 \rad$ in interactions of charged pions on beryllium, carbon,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 HARP Collaboration

Measurement of final-state correlations in neutrino muon-proton mesonless production on hydrocarbon at $\langle E_\nu\rangle=3$ GeV

Final-state kinematic imbalances are measured in mesonless production of $\nu_\mu + A \to \mu^- + p + X$ in the MINERvA tracker. Initial- and final-state nuclear effects are probed using the direction of the $\mu^-$-p transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-09-19 X. -G. Lu , M. Betancourt , T. Walton , F. Akbar , L. Aliaga , O. Altinok , D. A. Andrade , M. Ascencio , L. Bellantoni , A. Bercellie , A. Bodek , A. Bravar , H. Budd , T. Cai , M. F. Carneiro , J. Chaves , D. Coplowe , H. da Motta , S. A. Dytman , G. A. Diaz , J. Felix , L. Fields , R. Fine , A. M. Gago , R. Galindo , H. Gallagher , A. Ghosh , R. Gran , D. A. Harris , S. Henry , S. Jena , D. Jena , J. Kleykamp , M. Kordosky , T. Le , E. Maher , S. Manly , W. A. Mann , C. M. Marshall , K. S. McFarland , A. M. McGowan , B. Messerly , J. Miller , A. Mislivec , J. G. Morfin , J. Mousseau , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , C. Nguyen , A. Norrick , Nuruzzaman , A. Olivier , V. Paolone , C. E. Patrick , G. N. Perdue , M. A. Ramirez , R. D. Ransome , L. Ren , D. Rimal , P. A. Rodrigues , D. Ruterbories , H. Schellman , J. T. Sobczyk , C. J. Solano Salinas , H. Su , M. Sultana , E. Valencia , D. Wark , A. Weber , J. Wolcott , M. Wospakrik , B. Yaeggy

Measurement of Neutrino-Induced Neutral-Current Coherent $\pi^0$ Production in the NOvA Near Detector

The cross section of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent $\pi^0$ production on a carbon-dominated target is measured in the NOvA near detector. This measurement uses a narrow-band neutrino beam with an average neutrino energy of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-07-15 M. A. Acero , P. Adamson , L. Aliaga , T. Alion , V. Allakhverdian , N. Anfimov , A. Antoshkin , E. Arrieta-Diaz , A. Aurisano , A. Back , C. Backhouse , M. Baird , N. Balashov , P. Baldi , B. A. Bambah , S. Basher , K. Bays , B. Behera , S. Bending , R. Bernstein , V. Bhatnagar , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , J. Blair , A. C. Booth , A. Bolshakova , P. Bour , C. Bromberg , N. Buchanan , A. Butkevich , M. Campbell , T. J. Carroll , E. Catano-Mur , S. Childress , B. C. Choudhary , B. Chowdhury , T. E. Coan , M. Colo , L. Corwin , L. Cremonesi , D. Cronin-Hennessy , G. S. Davies , P. F. Derwent , P. Ding , Z. Djurcic , D. Doyle , E. C. Dukes , P. Dung , H. Duyang , S. Edayath , R. Ehrlich , G. J. Feldman , W. Flanagan , M. J. Frank , H. R. Gallagher , R. Gandrajula , F. Gao , S. Germani , A. Giri , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , V. Grichine , M. Groh , R. Group , B. Guo , A. Habig , F. Hakl , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , A. Hatzikoutelis , K. Heller , A. Himmel , A. Holin , B. Howard , J. Huang , J. Hylen , F. Jediny , C. Johnson , M. Judah , I. Kakorin , D. Kalra , D. M. Kaplan , R. Keloth , O. Klimov , L. W. Koerner , L. Kolupaeva , S. Kotelnikov , A. Kreymer , Ch. Kulenberg , A. Kumar , C. D. Kuruppu , V. Kus , T. Lackey , K. Lang , S. Lin , M. Lokajicek , J. Lozier , S. Luchuk , K. Maan , S. Magill , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , V. Matveev , D. P. Méndez , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , A. Mislivec , R. Mohanta , A. Moren , L. Mualem , M. Muether , K. Mulder , S. Mufson , R. Murphy , J. Musser , D. Naples , N. Nayak , J. K. Nelson , R. Nichol , E. Niner , A. Norman , T. Nosek , Y. Oksuzian , A. Olshevskiy , T. Olson , J. Paley , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , D. Pershey , O. Petrova , R. Petti , R. K. Plunkett , B. Potukuchi , C. Principato , F. Psihas , V. Raj , A. Radovic , R. A. Rameika , B. Rebel , P. Rojas , V. Ryabov , K. Sachdev , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , I. S. Seong , P. Shanahan , A. Sheshukov , P. Singh , V. Singh , E. Smith , J. Smolik , P. Snopok , N. Solomey , E. Song , A. Sousa , K. Soustruznik , M. Strait , L. Suter , R. L. Talaga , P. Tas , R. B. Thayyullathil , J. Thomas , E. Tiras , D. Torbunov , J. Tripathi , A. Tsaris , Y. Torun , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , J. Vasel , L. Vinton , P. Vokac , T. Vrba , B. Wang , T. K. Warburton , M. Wetstein , M. While , D. Whittington , S. G. Wojcicki , J. Wolcott , N. Yadav , A. Yallappa Dombara , S. Yang , K. Yonehara , S. Yu , J. Zalesak , B. Zamorano , R. Zwaska

Improving Neutrino Oscillation Measurements through Event Classification

Precise neutrino energy reconstruction is essential for next-generation long-baseline oscillation experiments, yet current methods remain limited by large uncertainties in neutrino-nucleus interaction modeling. Even so, it is well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Daniel C. Hackett , Shirley Weishi Li , Pedro A. N. Machado , Karla Tame-Narvaez

Neutrino induced pion production at MiniBooNE and K2K

We investigate charged and neutral current neutrino induced incoherent pion production off nuclei at MiniBooNE and K2K energies within the GiBUU model. We assume impulse approximation and treat the nucleus as a local Fermi gas of nucleons…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-03-23 T. Leitner , O. Buss , U. Mosel , L. Alvarez-Ruso

Neutrino Monte-Carlo Event Generators and Cross-section Data

In recent years a number of new theoretical models have been implemented into Monte-Carlo neutrino interaction event generators. Being able to compare multiple model predictions is invaluable to the field, especially as it is unfortunately…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-11 P. Stowell , S. Cartwright , L. Pickering , C. Wret , C. Wilkinson

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

This article summarizes the state of the art of $\nu_\mu$ and $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ CC0$\pi$ cross-section measurements on carbon and argon and discusses the relevant nuclear models, parametrizations and uncertainties in GENIE v3. The CC0$\pi$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-14 Julia Tena-Vidal , Costas Andreopoulos , Adi Ashkenazi , Joshua Barrow , Steven Dytman , Hugh Gallagher , Alfonso Andres Garcia Soto , Steven Gardiner , Matan Goldenberg , Robert Hatcher , Or Hen , Timothy J. Hobbs , Igor D. Kakorin , Konstantin S. Kuzmin , Anselmo Meregalia , Vadim A. Naumov , Afroditi Papadopoulou , Gabriel Perdue , Marco Roda , Alon Sportes , Noah Steinberg , Vladyslav Syrotenko , Jeremy Wolcott

Study of Pion Production in \nu_\mu CC Interactions on O16 Using Different MC Generators

In this report we present simulated event numbers, for various MC generators, for pion production in $\nu_{\mu}$ CC reactions on $\nucl{16}{O}$. For the simulation we used four different neutrino interaction generators: GENIE, FLUKA, NEUT,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 M. Antonello , V. Caracciolo , G. Christodoulou , J. Dobson , E. Frank , T. Golan , V. Lee , S. Mania , P. Przewlocki , B. Rossi , D. Stefan , R. Sulej , T. Szeglowski , R. Tacik , T. Wachala

Comparison of GiBUU calculations with MiniBooNE pion production data

Background. Neutrino-induced pion production can give important informationon the axial coupling to nucleon resonances. Furthermore, pion production represents a major background to quasielastic-like events. Single pion production data from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-10 Olga Lalakulich , Ulrich Mosel

Pion Rescattering in Nuclei

Nuclear corrections are presented for neutrino and electron induced reactions in a pedagogical manner. The formalism is demonstrated with numerical studies and is shown to produce substantial corrections in channels where the pions have the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 E. A. Paschos , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

Neutrino-induced meson productions off nucleon at forward limit in nucleon resonance region

We study forward neutrino-induced meson production off the nucleon in the resonance region. Our calculation is based on a dynamical coupled-channels (DCC) model that reasonably describes pi (gamma) N -> pi N, eta N, K Lambda, K Sigma data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 S. X. Nakamura , H. Kamano , T. -S. H. Lee , T. Sato

Benchmarking State-of-the-Art Theory and Empirical Models of Pionless Neutrino-Argon Scattering in GENIE

Upcoming experiments need improved simulations of neutrino scattering. This work uses the popular GENIE event generator to test a variety of neutrino interaction models against recent MicroBooNE measurements of pionless charged-current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-18 Liang Liu , Steven Gardiner , Steven Dytman

A Standard Model explanation for the excess of electron-like events in MiniBooNE

We study the dependence of neutral current (NC) neutrino-induced $\pi^0$/photon production ($\nu_\mu + A \to \nu_\mu +1\pi^0 / \gamma + X$) on the atomic number of the target nucleus, A, at 4-momentum transfers relevant to the MiniBooNE…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-27 A. Ioannisian

Measurement of Charged Current Charged Single Pion Production in SciBooNE

The SciBooNE experiment is designed to measure neutrino cross sections on carbon around one GeV region. Charged current single charged pion production is a dominant background process for $\nu_\mu \to \nu_x$ oscillation experiments with a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-22 K. Hiraide