Neutrino flux prediction at MiniBooNE

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A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo,⁵ C. E. Anderson,¹⁶ A. O. Bazarko,¹³ S. J. Brice,⁷ B. C. Brown,⁷ L. Bugel,⁵ J. Cao,¹² L. Coney,⁵ J. M. Conrad,⁵ D. C. Cox,⁹ A. Curioni,¹⁶ Z. Djurcic,⁵ D. A. Finley,⁷ B. T. Fleming,^7,16 R. Ford,⁷ F. G. Garcia,⁷ G. T. Garvey,¹⁰ C. Green,^7,10 J. A. Green,^9,10 T. L. Hart,⁴ E. Hawker,^3,10 R. Imlay,¹¹ R. A. Johnson,³ G. Karagiorgi,⁵ P. Kasper,⁷ T. Katori,⁹ T. Kobilarcik,⁷ I. Kourbanis,⁷ S. Koutsoliotas,² E. M. Laird,¹³ S. K. Linden,¹⁶ J. M. Link,^5,15 Y. Liu,¹² Y. Liu,¹ W. C. Louis,¹⁰ K. B. M. Mahn,⁵ W. Marsh,⁷ P. S. Martin,⁷ G. McGregor,¹⁰ W. Metcalf,¹¹ P. D. Meyers,¹³ F. Mills,⁷ G. B. Mills,¹⁰ J. Monroe,⁵ C. D. Moore,⁷ R. H. Nelson,⁴ V. T. Nguyen,⁵ P. Nienaber,¹⁴ J. A. Nowak,¹¹ S. Ouedraogo,¹¹ R. B. Patterson,¹³ D. Perevalov,¹ C. C. Polly,⁹ E. Prebys,⁷ J. L. Raaf,³ H. Ray,^8,10 B. P. Roe,¹² A. D. Russell,⁷ V. Sandberg,¹⁰ R. Schirato,¹⁰ D. Schmitz,⁵ M. H. Shaevitz,⁵ F. C. Shoemaker,¹³ D. Smith,⁶ M. Soderberg,¹⁶ M. Sorel,⁵ P. Spentzouris,⁷ I. Stancu,¹ R. J. Stefanski,⁷ M. Sung,¹¹ H. A. Tanaka,¹³ R. Tayloe,⁹ M. Tzanov,⁴ R. Van de Water,¹⁰ M. O. Wascko,¹¹ D. H. White,¹⁰ M. J. Wilking,⁴ H. J. Yang,¹² G. P. Zeller,^5,10 and E. D. Zimmerman⁴

(MiniBooNE Collaboration)

¹University of Alabama; Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
²Bucknell University; Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, USA
³University of Cincinnati; Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA
⁴University of Colorado; Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
⁵Columbia University; New York, New York 10027, USA
⁶Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA
⁷Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
⁸University of Florida; Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
⁹Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
¹⁰Los Alamos National Laboratory; Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
¹¹Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
¹²University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
¹³Princeton University; Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
¹⁴Saint Mary's University of Minnesota; Winona, Minnesota 55987, USA
¹⁵Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
¹⁶Yale University; New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA

Received 21 June 2008; published 15 April 2009

Thebooster neutrino experiment (MiniBooNE) searches for nu_µ-->nu_e oscillations using the[script O](1 GeV) neutrino beam produced by the booster synchrotron at theFermi National Accelerator Laboratory). The booster delivers protons with 8 GeVkinetic energy (8.89 GeV/c momentum) to a beryllium target, producing neutrinosfrom the decay of secondary particles in the beam line.We describe the Monte Carlo simulation methods used to estimate theflux of neutrinos from the beam line incident on theMiniBooNE detector for both polarities of the focusing horn. Thesimulation uses the Geant4 framework for propagating particles, accounting forelectromagnetic processes and hadronic interactions in the beam line materials,as well as the decay of particles. The absolute doubledifferential cross sections of pion and kaon production in thesimulation have been tuned to match external measurements, as havethe hadronic cross sections for nucleons and pions. The statisticalprecision of the flux predictions is enhanced through reweighting andresampling techniques. Systematic errors in the flux estimation have beendetermined by varying parameters within their uncertainties, accounting for correlationswhere appropriate.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.072002
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevD.79.072002
PACS:	14.60.Lm 14.60.Lm Ordinary neutrinos (ν_e, ν_μ, ν_τ) YEAR: 2009

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