Charged Current Coherent Pion Production Cross-Section measurement at MicroBooNE

ORAL

Abstract

Coherent pion production, characterized by a neutrino interacting with an entire nucleus without breaking it apart, results in a forward-going muon, pion, and a low-momentum recoil nucleus. By leveraging an improved understanding of particle identification and background parameterization, we aim to achieve a new level of sensitivity to coherent interactions at low neutrino energy. The outcome of this analysis will contribute to ongoing efforts to model neutrino-nucleus interactions accurately in neutrino oscillation studies and beyond Standard Model searches in MicroBooNE and future experiments, such as DUNE. We present progress towards a measurement of charged current coherent pion production cross-section on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber detector. This measurement will use MicroBooNE's full dataset collected from the Booster Neutrino Beam with a total exposure of 1.3 × 10^21 protons-on-target and average neutrino energy of 0.8 GeV.

*This work was supported in part by grant GOPY006417 from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. Additional support was provided by the Universities Research Association (URA) through the URA Visiting Scholars Program, Award #24-F-09.

Presenters

  • Adil Hussain

    • Kansas State University

Authors

  • Adil Hussain

    • Kansas State University
  • Timothy Bolton

    • Kansas State University
  • Aleena Rafique

    • Argonne National Laboratory