Speaker
Mr
Ulascan Sarica
(University of Rochester)
Description
We investigate the “low-ν” method (developed by the CCFR/NUTEV collaborations) to determine the neutrino flux in a wide band neutrino beam at very low energies, a region of interest to neutrino oscillations experiments. Events with low hadronic final state energy nu < nu_cut (of 1, 2 and 5 GeV) were used by the MINOS collaboration to determine the neutrino flux in their measurements of neutrino (nu_mu ) and antineutrino (nu_mu_bar) total cross sections. The lowest nu_mu energy for which the method was used in MINOS is 3.5 GeV, and the lowest energy is 6 GeV. At these energies, the cross sections are dominated by inelastic processes. We investigate the application of the method to determine the neutrino flux for nu_mu, nu_mu_bar energies as low as 0.7 GeV where the cross sections are dominated by quasi-elastic scattering and Delta(1232) resonance production. We find that the method can be extended to low energies by using nu-cut values of 0.25 and 0.50 GeV, which are feasible in fully active neutrino detectors such as MINERvA.
Primary author
Prof.
Arie Bodek
(University of Rochester)
Co-authors
Prof.
Donna Naples
(University of Pittsburgh)
Ms
Lu Ren
(University of Pittsburgh)
Mr
Ulascan Sarica
(University of Rochester)