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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
2024-11-22 1:36 |
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2010 Meeting
Section: Nuclear and Elementary Particles Physics
Title:
Monte Carlo event generation for neutrino/antineutrino – liquid Argon interaction
Authors:
Daniela Cheseneanu(1,2), A. Jipa (1), I.Lazanu (1), R. Margineanu (2), B. Mitrica (2), Denis Stanca (1), C.Paduraru (1)
Affiliation:
(1) University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Atomic and Nuclear Physics Chair
(2) Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering - IFIN HH
E-mail
chesneanu@nipne.ro
Keywords:
Neutrino Astrophysics, Grand Unification Theory, underground detectors, Monte Carlo event generation
Abstract:
Neutrinos are very special particles, have only weak interactions, except gravity, and are produced in very different processes in Nuclear and Particle Physics. Neutrinos are, also, messengers from astrophysical objects, as well as relics from Early Universe. Therefore, its can give us information on processes happening in the Universe, during its evolution, which cannot be studied otherwise. The underground instrumentation including a variety of large and very large detectors, thanks to technical breakthroughs, have achieved new fundamental results like the solution of the solar neutrino puzzle and the evidence for Physics beyond the Standard Model of elementary interactions in the neutrino sector with non-vanishing neutrino masses and lepton flavour violation.
Two of the LAGUNA (Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics) detectors, namely: GLACIER (Giant Liquid Argon Charge Imaging ExpeRiment) and LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astrophysics), could be emplaced in “Unirea” salt mine from Slănic-Prahova, Romania. A detailed analysis of the conditions and advantages is necessary. A few results have been presented previously. In the present work we propose to generate events and compute the cross sections for interactions between neutrino/antineutrino and liquid Argon, to estimate possible detection performances and event types. For doing this, we use the code GENIE (Generates Events for Neutrino Interaction Experiments). GENIE Code is an Object-Oriented Neutrino MC Generator supported and developed by an international collaboration of neutrino interaction experts. The relevant results are presented.
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