Using world <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msup><mml:mi>π</mml:mi><mml:mo>±</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math> -nucleus scattering data to constrain an intranuclear cascade model

E. S. Pinzon Guerra, C. Wilkinson, S. Bhadra, S. Bolognesi, J. Calcutt, P. de Perio, S. Dolan, T. Feusels, G. A. Fiorentini, Y. Hayato

Abstract

The NEUT intranuclear cascade model is described and fit to a large body of \pipm--nucleus scattering data. Methods are developed to deal with deficiencies in the available historical data, and robust uncertainty estimates are produced. The results are compared to a variety of simulation packages, and the data itself. This work provides a method for tuning Final State Interaction models, which are of particular interest to neutrino experiments that operate in the few-GeV energy region, and provides results which can be used directly by the T2K and Super-Kamiokande collaborations, for whom NEUT is the primary simulation package.

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