Graduation Semester and Year
2022
Language
English
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics and Applied Physics
Department
Physics
First Advisor
Jonathan Asaadi
Abstract
Neutrino-induced charged-current coherent pion production is an important channel for the study of neutrino-nucleus interactions. It is both a dangerous background for $\nu_{e}$ oscillation experiments, and a critical component required for precise understanding of neutrino-nucleus pion production in general. This work performed a search for $\nu_{\mu}$-induced charged-current (CC) coherent pion production on argon in MicroBooNE from Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB), which produces $\nu_{\mu}$ with a mean energy of 0.823 GeV. A flux-integrated cross section measurement was made for this channel, and was found to be: $\sigma(\nu_{\mu} + Ar \rightarrow \mu^{-} + \pi^{+} + Ar) = 1.12 \pm 0.253 \textrm{(stat.)} \pm 0.728 \textrm{(syst.)}\times 10^{-39} \textrm{cm}^{2}$.
Keywords
Neutrinos, Cross section, Coherent pion production, Neutrino physics
Disciplines
Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Williams, Zachary Glenn Randell, "A Cross Section Measurement of Muon Neutrino-Induced Charged-Current Coherent Positive Pion Production on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector" (2022). Physics Dissertations. 141.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/physics_dissertations/141
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington