Comparison of Two Models
Abstract
A comparison of two different models for nuclear effects in oxygen-16 from the propagation of mesonic secondaries of neutron oscillations. In order to estimate uncertainties due to the reliability of the models, two such algorithms with slightly different physics assumptions and approaches were compared for various kinematic variables and interaction rates. We found that the differences in values of these parameters were very small and that the related distribution as approximately (1-2%) in the form of histograms and scatter plots were similar. We concluded that the differences between our two models with different but reasonable physical assumptions were relatively small and the models were both reliable. Our study validated earlier estimates of the nuclear model with dependent systematic errors in our neutron oscillation search to be 2%.
- Publication:
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APS California Section Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010APS..CAL.H3002F