Neutrino flux prediction at MiniBooNE

被引：255

作者：

Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A. ^{[1
]}

Anderson, C. E. ^{[16
]}

Bazarko, A. O. ^{[13
]}

Brice, S. J. ^{[8
]}

Brown, B. C. ^{[8
]}

Bugel, L. ^{[1
]}

Cao, J. ^{[12
]}

Coney, L. ^{[1
]}

Conrad, J. M. ^{[1
]}

Cox, D. C. ^{[2
]}

Curioni, A. ^{[16
]}

Djurcic, Z. ^{[1
]}

Finley, D. A. ^{[8
]}

Fleming, B. T. ^{[8
,16
]}

Ford, R. ^{[8
]}

Garcia, F. G. ^{[8
]}

Garvey, G. T. ^{[10
]}

Green, C. ^{[8
,10
]}

Green, J. A. ^{[2
,10
]}

Hart, T. L. ^{[6
]}

Hawker, E. ^{[5
,10
]}

Imlay, R. ^{[11
]}

Johnson, R. A. ^{[5
]}

Karagiorgi, G. ^{[1
]}

Kasper, P. ^{[8
]}

Katori, T. ^{[2
]}

Kobilarcik, T. ^{[8
]}

Kourbanis, I. ^{[8
]}

Koutsoliotas, S. ^{[4
]}

Laird, E. M. ^{[13
]}

Linden, S. K. ^{[16
]}

Link, J. M. ^{[1
,15
]}

Liu, Y. ^{[3
]}

Louis, W. C. ^{[10
]}

Mahn, K. B. M. ^{[1
]}

Marsh, W. ^{[8
]}

Martin, P. S. ^{[8
]}

McGregor, G. ^{[10
]}

Metcalf, W. ^{[11
]}

Meyers, P. D. ^{[13
]}

Mills, F. ^{[8
]}

Mills, G. B. ^{[10
]}

Monroe, J. ^{[1
]}

Moore, C. D.

Nelson, R. H. ^{[6
]}

Nguyen, V. T. ^{[1
]}

Nienaber, P. ^{[14
]}

Nowak, J. A. ^{[11
]}

Ouedraogo, S. ^{[11
]}

机构：

[1] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA

[2] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA

[3] Univ Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA

[4] Bucknell Univ, Lewisburg, PA 17837 USA

[5] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA

[6] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA

[7] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA

[8] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA

[9] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

[10] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA

[11] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA

[12] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

[13] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[14] Winona State Univ, Winona, MN 55987 USA

[15] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA

[16] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2009年 / 79卷 / 07期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

TOTAL CROSS-SECTIONS; PROTON ELASTIC-SCATTERING; PARTICLE-PRODUCTION; NUCLEI; PIONS; SIMULATION; BERYLLIUM;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevD.79.072002

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The booster neutrino experiment (MiniBooNE) searches for nu(mu)->nu(e) oscillations using the O(1 GeV) neutrino beam produced by the booster synchrotron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory). The booster delivers protons with 8 GeV kinetic energy (8.89 GeV/c momentum) to a beryllium target, producing neutrinos from the decay of secondary particles in the beam line. We describe the Monte Carlo simulation methods used to estimate the flux of neutrinos from the beam line incident on the MiniBooNE detector for both polarities of the focusing horn. The simulation uses the Geant4 framework for propagating particles, accounting for electromagnetic processes and hadronic interactions in the beam line materials, as well as the decay of particles. The absolute double differential cross sections of pion and kaon production in the simulation have been tuned to match external measurements, as have the hadronic cross sections for nucleons and pions. The statistical precision of the flux predictions is enhanced through reweighting and resampling techniques. Systematic errors in the flux estimation have been determined by varying parameters within their uncertainties, accounting for correlations where appropriate.

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