Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Joint Fall 2022 Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, Texas Section of the AAPT, and Zone 13 of the SPS
Volume 67, Number 11
Thursday–Saturday, October 13–15, 2022; Rice University, Houston, Texas
Session L03: Nuclear and Particle Physics VI
10:30 AM–11:54 AM,
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Rice University BRC
Room: 280
Chair: Rene Bellwied, University of Houston
Abstract: L03.00005 : Prediction of the NuMI electron and muon neutrino flux in ICARUS*
11:18 AM–11:30 AM
Presenter:
Anthony P Wood
(University of Houston)
Authors:
Daniel Cherdack
(University of Houston)
Antoni Aduszkiewicz
(University of Houston)
Anthony P Wood
(University of Houston)
Collaborations:
ICARUS, PPFX
As an essential first step toward performing a neutrino-argon cross-section measurement, this work aims to provide a comprehensive characterization of the NuMI neutrino flux prediction for ICARUS with its associated uncertainties. A Geant4-based flux simulation is augmented by applying corrections according to hadron cross-section models. The corrected flux, related uncertainties, and uncertainties due to beamline operating conditions were evaluated. The total uncertainty on the flux was found to be 10% (13%) for νe (νμ). The uncertainty on the νe/νμ flux ratio was additionally studied and found to be a factor 2 smaller than for the individual neutrino flavor modes.
*This work was supported by the United States Department of Energy under Grant No DE-SC0021407.
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