2019 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2019

Measurements of proton-carbon differential cross-sections at 20, 30, and 120 GeV/c in EMPHATIC experiment

6 Jun 2019, 13:45

15m

DAC FT II (Simon Fraser University)

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e)) Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD) R2-10 Neutrinos and more (PPD) | Neutrinos et davantage (PPD)

Speaker

Dr Matej Pavin (TRIUMF)

Description

Neutrino parent particles in atmospheric and accelerator-based neutrino experiments are produced in hadronic interactions. Tagging of individual neutrinos and their ancestors is currently not possible. Therefore, we rely on Monte Carlo models and available hadron production data to predict neutrino fluxes. Without additional hadron production measurements, many neutrino measurements such as neutrino-nucleus cross-section measurements will be limited by the flux uncertainty. This talk will discuss new results from EMPHATIC - a tabletop hadron production experiment at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. The results include measurements of differential proton-carbon cross-sections at 20, 30 and, 120 GeV/c.

Presentation materials

mpavin_emphatic_cap.pdf