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Title Validation of Neutrino Energy Estimation Using Electron Validation of Neutrino Energy Estimation Using Electron Scattering Data Scattering
Abstract To study neutrino oscillations, the knowledge of the initial neutrino energy is required. This energy cannot be determined directly because neutrino beams have a broad energy distribution. Instead, the initial energy for each event is estimated from the final state particles of a neutrino-nucleus interaction using two main approaches. It can be determined either from the total energy of all the final state particles or, if the neutrino scatters quasielastically from a bound nucleon, then the initial energy can be calculated approximately using the scattered angle and energy of the outgoing charged lepton. This requires a detailed understanding of neutrino-nucleus interaction cross section for various interaction channels, for different atomic nuclei, and for a wide range of neutrino energies. None of these energy reconstruction techniques have been tested experimentally using beams of known energy. We exploited the similarity of electron-nucleus and neutrino-nucleus interactions, and a
Author(s) Mariana Khachatryan
Publication Date December 2019
Document Type Thesis
Primary Institution Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News
Affiliation Exp Nuclear Physics / Experimental Halls / Hall B
Funding Source Nuclear Physics (NP)
Proprietary? No
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Document Numbers
JLAB Number: JLAB-PHY-19-3152 OSTI Number: 1768400
LANL Number: Other Number: DOE/OR/23177-5148
Associated with an experiment No
Associated with EIC No
Supported by Jefferson Lab LDRD Funding No
Thesis
Thesis Type PhD
Advisor Institution
1. Lawrence Weinstein ODU
2. Stepan Stepanyan JLAB
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