Extraction of Neutrino Flux from the Inclusive Muon Cross Section

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel method using maximum entropy to extract neutrino flux from inclusive muon production data, enabling analysis without isolating specific reaction channels.

Contribution

It introduces a new approach to determine neutrino flux directly from inclusive cross sections, bypassing the need for reaction-specific selection.

Findings

Maximum entropy method effectively extracts neutrino flux.

The approach works with inclusive muon production data.

Potential to improve neutrino flux measurements in experiments.

Abstract

We have studied a method to extract neutrino flux from the data of neutrino-nucleus reaction by using maximum entropy method. We demonstrate a promising example to extract neutrino flux from the inclusive cross section of muon production without selecting a particular reaction process such as quasi-elastic nucleon knockout.