SciNO$\nu$A: A measurement of neutrino-nucleus scattering in a narrow-band beam

Abstract

SciNO$\nu$A is a proposed experiment to deploy a fine-grained scintillator detector in front of the NO$\nu$A near detector to collect neutrino-nucleus scattering events in the NuMI, off-axis, narrow-band neutrino beam at Fermilab. This detector can make unique contributions to the measurement of charged- and neutral-current quasi-elastic scattering; and neutral-current ${\pi }^0$ and photon production. These processes are important to understand for fundamental physics and as backgrounds to measurements of electron neutrino appearance oscillations.

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures, proceeding of Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, August 9-13, 2011, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island