Decipher the Quantum Behavior of Neutrinos with DUNE PRISM
F. Y. Guo,
W. Shi,
C. Vilela*,
M. Wilking and
On behalf of the DUNE Collaboration*: corresponding author
Pre-published on:
December 17, 2024
Published on:
April 29, 2025
Abstract
Our understanding of neutrinos faces limitations from neutrino-nucleus interaction uncertainties. Constraining the uncertainties has proven challenging given the absence of a complete model. To bypass most uncertainties, a DUNE physics program named PRISM employs a data-driven approach to measure neutrino oscillations. It involves the near detector (ND) moving off the neutrino beam axis to sample various neutrino energy spectra which are then linearly combined to predict the far detector oscillated spectrum. However, interaction uncertainties still affect the oscillation sensitivity primarily through the Monte Carlo based ND efficiency correction where interaction systematics introduce large variations in the predicted spectrum. We have developed a new data-driven geometric efficiency correction technique that further reduces the interaction model dependence.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.476.0111
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