2012/10/31 by O. Lalakulich, Olga Lalakulich, Ulrich Mosel +1 · 63 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #MiniBooNE #National laboratory #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutrino oscillation #Nuclear physics #Nucleon #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Pion #Production (economics) #Renormalization #Sterile neutrino #hep-ex #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.87.014602
published in Physical Review C 87(1) (American Institute of Physics) · 21 pages, 13 figures, minor text changes, 1 footnote added. version as published in Phys.Rev. C87 (2013) 014602
openalex publication_date 2013/01/02 · arxiv created 2013/07/30 · arxiv updated 2013/07/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Background: Charged current pion production gives information on the axial form factors of nucleon resonances. It also introduces a noticeable background to quasielastic measurements on nuclear targets.Purpose: Understand pion production in neutrino interactions with nucleons and the reaction mechanism in nuclei.Method: The Giessen Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (GiBUU) model is used for an investigation of neutrino-nucleus reactions.Results: Theoretical results for integrated and differential cross sections for the MiniBooNE neutrino flux are compared to the data. Two sets of pion production data on elementary targets are used to obtain limits for the neutrino-nucleus reactions.Conclusions: The MiniBooNE pion production data are approximately consistent with the Brookhaven National Laboratory elementary data if a small flux renormalization is performed while the Argonne National Laboratory input data lead to significantly too low cross sections. A final determination of in-medium effects requires new data on elementary (p,D) targets.