18–19 Jun 2018
Fermilab, Wilson Hall
US/Central timezone

Proton and Neutral Pion Identification at ME in MINERvA

18 Jun 2018, 11:10
15m
One West (Fermilab, Wilson Hall)

One West

Fermilab, Wilson Hall

Oral Presentation Cross Section Neutrino Program

Speaker

Barbara Yaeggy (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)

Description

Neutrinos, the quarry of the MINERvA experiment, are subtle and difficult to capture. Accelerator base oscillation experiments look for electron neutrino appearance, where a neutrino is observed to interact in the electron-type state rather than in the produced muon-type state. This observation is based on the observation of a produced electron and absence of a produced muon in the detector. Due to the low interaction cross section of neutrinos, the detection material must also serve as the target material and be relatively dense. This can cause neutral pions to be mistaken in the detector for electrons. We present here progress towards a study using the medium energy NuMI 𝜈𝜇 beam to measure semi-exclusive neutral pion production in the MINERvA detector. In particular, we present changes in the event selection from the formerly presented low energy studies.

Primary author

Barbara Yaeggy (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)

Presentation materials