Speaker
Ben Messerly
(University of Minnesota)
Description
Measurements of Numu Charged Current Pion Production on different nuclei in the delta(1232) resonance region are an important interaction process for accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments. Here we present new high statistics differential cross section measurements of pi plus and pi zero production on scintillator, carbon, water, iron, and lead targets recorded by the MINERvA experiment using a wide-band energy (<E_nu> ~6 GeV) numu beam. These results include the first measurements of incoherent pion production cross section ratios between various nuclei, and they are directly sensitive to nuclear effects. Data indicates a need for a low-Q^2 suppression that current generators cannot reproduce.
| Collaboration / Activity | MINERvA |
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Primary author
Ben Messerly
(University of Minnesota)
