Using world charged pion--nucleus scattering data to constrain an intranuclear cascade model

The NEUT intranuclear cascade model is described and fit to a large body of \pipm--nucleus scattering data. Methods are developed to deal with deficiencies in the available historical data, and robust uncertainty estimates are produced. The results are compared to a variety of simulation packages, a...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2018-12
Main Authors: Pinzon Guerra, E S, Wilkinson, C, Bhadra, S, Bolognesi, S, Calcutt, J, de Perio, P, Dolan, S, Feusels, T, Fiorentini, G A, Hayato, Y, Ieki, K, Mahn, K, McFarland, K S, Paolone, V, Pickering, L, Tacik, R, Tanaka, H A, Terri, R, Wascko, M O, Wilking, M J, Wret, C, M Yu
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Language:English
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Computer simulation
Experiments
Interaction models
Neutrinos
Particle physics
Scattering
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Summary:The NEUT intranuclear cascade model is described and fit to a large body of \pipm--nucleus scattering data. Methods are developed to deal with deficiencies in the available historical data, and robust uncertainty estimates are produced. The results are compared to a variety of simulation packages, and the data itself. This work provides a method for tuning Final State Interaction models, which are of particular interest to neutrino experiments that operate in the few-GeV energy region, and provides results which can be used directly by the T2K and Super-Kamiokande collaborations, for whom NEUT is the primary simulation package.
ISSN:2331-8422