Probing nuclear physics with neutrino pion production at MINERvA

by Brandon Eberly (The University of Pittsburgh)

Thursday 7 Nov 2013, 12:30 → 13:30 US/Pacific

Kavli Meeting Room - room 305 (SLAC)

Precise knowledge of neutrino-nucleus interactions is increasingly important as neutrino oscillation measurements transition into the systematics-limited era. In addition to modifying the initial interaction, the nuclear medium can scatter and absorb the interaction by-products through final state interactions, changing the types and kinematic distributions of particles seen by the detector. MINERvA, a fine-grained scintillator tracking detector that sits in the few-GeV NuMI beam line at Fermilab, is well-suited to study these nuclear effects in a variety of inclusive and exclusive neutrino interaction channels.