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Description
Future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), aim to measure neutrino oscillation parameters with unprecedented precision.
Such sensitivity demands precise characterization of the incoming neutrino energy, which can only be determined via comprehensive cross-section models. In particular DUNE, which flux peaks at 2.5~GeV, will be dominated by pion-production events. Far from ideal, current neutrino pion-production Monte Carlo simulations strongly rely on empirical models which fail to describe neutrino pion-production data at the few-GeV energy range on deuterium and heavier targets. The Electrons for Neutrinos collaboration (e4nu) proposes a novel alternative to leverage neutrino simulations by exploiting the similarities between electrons and neutrino interactions with matter. The e4nu collaboration is working towards a single-differential semi-inclusive pion production measurement with electron-scattering CLAS6 data at 1, 2, 4~GeV on Carbon. The results offer a new insight to exclusive pion-production properties and pion final-state-interactions in the nuclear environment and can be used to validate theory models and neutrino event-generators.