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Title Electron-beam energy reconstruction for neutrino oscillation measurements
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Khachatryan, M (Old Dominion U.) ; Papadopoulou, A (MIT) ; Ashkenazi, A (MIT) ; Hauenstein, F (Old Dominion U. ; MIT) ; Nambrath, A (MIT) ; Hrnjic, A (MIT) ; Weinstein, L B (Old Dominion U.) ; Hen, O (MIT) ; Piasetzky, E (Tel Aviv U.) ; Betancourt, M (Fermilab) ; Dytman, S (Pittsburgh U.) ; Mahn, K (Michigan State U.) ; Coloma, P (Valencia U., IFIC ; Madrid, IFT) ; Adhikari, S (Florida Intl. U.) ; Amaryan, M J (Old Dominion U.) ; Angelini, Giovanni (George Washington U.) ; Atac, H (Temple U.) ; Barion, L (INFN, Ferrara) ; Battaglieri, M (Jefferson Lab ; INFN, Genoa) ; Bedlinskiy, I (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow) ; Beck, A (MIT) ; Benmokhtar, F (Duquesne U.) ; Bianconi, A (Brescia U. ; INFN, Brescia ; INFN, Pavia) ; Biselli, A S (Fairfield U. ; Carnegie Mellon U.) ; Bossu, F (IRFU, Saclay) ; Boiarinov, S (Jefferson Lab) ; Briscoe, W J (George Washington U.) ; Brooks, W K (Santa Maria U., Valparaiso ; Valparaiso U. ; Jefferson Lab) ; Bulumulla, D (Old Dominion U.) ; Burkert, V D (Jefferson Lab) ; Carman, D S (Jefferson Lab) ; Carvajal, J C (Florida Intl. U.) ; Celentano, A (INFN, Genoa) ; Chatagnon, P (IJCLab, Orsay) ; Chesnokov, V (Lomonosov Moscow State U.) ; Chetry, T (Mississippi State U.) ; Ciullo, G (INFN, Ferrara ; Ferrara U.) ; Clark, L (Glasgow U.) ; Clary, B A (Connecticut U.) ; Cohen, E O (Tel Aviv U.) ; Cole, P L (Lamar U. ; Idaho State U., IAC) ; Contalbrigo, M (INFN, Ferrara) ; Crede, V (Florida State U.) ; Cruz-Torres, R (MIT) ; D’Angelo, A (INFN, Rome ; INFN, Rome2 ; Rome U., Tor Vergata) ; Dashyan, N (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) ; De Vita, R (INFN, Genoa) ; Defurne, M (IRFU, Saclay) ; Denniston, A (MIT) ; Deur, A (Jefferson Lab) ; Diehl, S (Connecticut U.) ; Djalali, C (Ohio U., Athens ; South Carolina U.) ; Duer, M (Tel Aviv U.) ; Dupre, R (IJCLab, Orsay) ; Egiyan, H (Jefferson Lab) ; Ehrhart, M (Argonne (main)) ; El Alaoui, A (Santa Maria U., Valparaiso ; Valparaiso U.) ; El Fassi, L (Mississippi State U.) ; Elouadrhiri, L (Jefferson Lab) ; Eugenio, P (Florida State U.) ; Fersch, R (Jefferson Lab) ; Filippi, A (INFN, Turin) ; Forest, T A (Idaho State U., IAC) ; Gavalian, G (Jefferson Lab ; New Hampshire U.) ; Gilfoyle, G P (Richmond U.) ; Giovanetti, K L (James Madison U.) ; Girod, F X (Jefferson Lab) ; Glazier, D I (Glasgow U.) ; Golovatch, E (Lomonosov Moscow State U.) ; Gothe, R W (South Carolina U.) ; Griffioen, K A (William-Mary Coll.) ; Guidal, M (IJCLab, Orsay) ; Guo, L (Florida Intl. U. ; Jefferson Lab) ; Hakobyan, H (Santa Maria U., Valparaiso ; Valparaiso U. ; Yerevan Phys. Inst.) ; Hattawy, M (Old Dominion U.) ; Hayward, T B (William-Mary Coll.) ; Heddle, D (Jefferson Lab) ; Hicks, K (Ohio U., Athens) ; Hobart, A (IJCLab, Orsay) ; Holtrop, M (Idaho State U., IAC) ; Ilieva, Y (George Washington U. ; South Carolina U.) ; Ireland, D G (Glasgow U.) ; Ishkhanov, B S (Lomonosov Moscow State U.) ; Isupov, E L (Lomonosov Moscow State U.) ; Jo, H S (Kyungpook Natl. U.) ; Joo, K (Connecticut U.) ; Keller, D (Virginia U.) ; Khanal, A (Florida Intl. U.) ; Khandaker, M (Norfolk State U.) ; Kim, C W (George Washington U.) ; Kim, W (Kyungpook Natl. U.) ; Korover, I (MIT) ; Kubarovsky, V (Jefferson Lab ; Rensselaer Poly.) ; Kuhn, S E (Old Dominion U.) ; Lanza, L (INFN, Rome) ; Leali, M (Brescia U. ; INFN, Brescia ; INFN, Pavia) ; Lenisa, P (INFN, Ferrara ; Ferrara U.) ; Livingston, K (Glasgow U.) ; MacGregor, I J D (Glasgow U.) ; Marchand, D (IJCLab, Orsay) ; Markov, N (Jefferson Lab) ; Marsicano, L (INFN, Genoa) ; Mascagna, V (Brescia U. ; INFN, Brescia) ; McKinnon, B (Glasgow U.) ; May-Tal Beck, S (MIT) ; Mineeva, T (Santa Maria U., Valparaiso ; Valparaiso U.) ; Mirazita, M (Frascati) ; Mokeev, V (Jefferson Lab ; Lomonosov Moscow State U.) ; Movsisyan, A (INFN, Ferrara) ; Munoz Camacho, C (IJCLab, Orsay) ; Nadel-Turonski, P (Jefferson Lab) ; Neupane, K (South Carolina U.) ; Niccolai, S (IJCLab, Orsay) ; Niculescu, G (James Madison U.) ; Osipenko, M (INFN, Genoa) ; Ostrovidov, A I (Florida State U.) ; Paolone, M (Temple U.) ; Pappalardo, L L (INFN, Ferrara ; Ferrara U.) ; Paremuzyan, R (New Hampshire U.) ; Park, K (Kyungpook Natl. U.) ; Pasyuk, E (Jefferson Lab) ; Pogorelko, O (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow) ; Poudel, J (Old Dominion U.) ; Prok, Y (Old Dominion U. ; Virginia U.) ; Protopopescu, D (Glasgow U.) ; Pybus, J (MIT) ; Ripani, M (INFN, Genoa) ; Raue, B (Florida Intl. U.) ; Ritman, J (Julich, Forschungszentrum) ; Rizzo, A (INFN, Rome ; INFN, Rome2 ; Rome U., Tor Vergata) ; Rosner, G (Glasgow U.) ; Rossi, P (Jefferson Lab ; Frascati) ; Sabati, F (IRFU, Saclay) ; Salgado, C (Norfolk State U.) ; Schmidt, A (George Washington U.) ; Schumacher, R A (Carnegie Mellon U.) ; Segarra, E P (MIT) ; Sharabian, Y G (Jefferson Lab) ; Shrestha, U (Ohio U., Athens) ; Skorodumina, Iu (Lomonosov Moscow State U. ; South Carolina U.) ; Sokhan, D (Glasgow U.) ; Soto, O (Frascati) ; Sparveris, N (Temple U.) ; Stepanyan, S (Old Dominion U. ; Jefferson Lab) ; Strakovsky, I I (George Washington U.) ; Strauch, S (George Washington U. ; South Carolina U.) ; Tyler, N (South Carolina U.) ; Tyson, R (Glasgow U.) ; Ungaro, M (Jefferson Lab ; Rensselaer Poly.) ; Venturelli, L (Brescia U. ; INFN, Brescia ; INFN, Pavia) ; Voskanyan, H (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) ; Voutier, E (IJCLab, Orsay) ; Watts, D (Hertfordshire U.) ; Wei, X (Jefferson Lab) ; Wood, M H (South Carolina U.) ; Zachariou, N (Hertfordshire U.) ; Zhang, J (Virginia U.) ; Zhao, Z W (Duke U.) ; Dolan, S (CERN) ; Megias, G D (Tokyo U., ICRR) ; Gardiner, S (Fermilab)

Publication 2021
Number of pages 20
In: Nature 599 (2021) 565-570
DOI 10.1038/s41586-021-04046-5
Subject category Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract Neutrinos exist in one of three types or ‘flavours’—electron, muon and tau neutrinos—and oscillate from one flavour to another when propagating through space. This phenomena is one of the few that cannot be described using the standard model of particle physics (reviewed in ref. 1), and so its experimental study can provide new insight into the nature of our Universe (reviewed in ref. 2). Neutrinos oscillate as a function of their propagation distance (L) divided by their energy (E). Therefore, experiments extract oscillation parameters by measuring their energy distribution at different locations. As accelerator-based oscillation experiments cannot directly measure E, the interpretation of these experiments relies heavily on phenomenological models of neutrino–nucleus interactions to infer E. Here we exploit the similarity of electron–nucleus and neutrino–nucleus interactions, and use electron scattering data with known beam energies to test energy reconstruction methods and interaction models. We find that even in simple interactions where no pions are detected, only a small fraction of events reconstruct to the correct incident energy. More importantly, widely used interaction models reproduce the reconstructed energy distribution only qualitatively and the quality of the reproduction varies strongly with beam energy. This shows both the need and the pathway to improve current models to meet the requirements of next-generation, high-precision experiments such as Hyper-Kamiokande (Japan) and DUNE (USA).
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