Sweeney, Cathal;
(2023)
Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current single charged pion production cross-section in the NOvA Near Detector.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
NOvA is a two-detector long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. It consists of a Near and Far Detector, which sit 1 km and 810 km, respectively, from the source of the NuMI neutrino beam. Both detectors sit 14 mrad off-axis, resulting in a beam of neutrinos with energy narrowly peaked around 2 GeV. This thesis describes a cross-section analysis done at the Near Detector. A cross- section measurement was made for νμ charged-current interactions with a single charged pion in the final state. This measurement, the first of its kind in the NOvA Near Detector, is flux integrated and reported in bins of pion angle. The measurement was made using 13.8 × 1020 protons on target of neutrino beam, collected between 2014 and 2020. This measurement is sensitive to the transition region between the quasi-elastic and deep inelastic scattering regimes of neutrino-nucleus interactions.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current single charged pion production cross-section in the NOvA Near Detector |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2022. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177329 |
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