Skip to main content
Home
Department Of Physics text logo
  • Research
    • Our research
    • Our research groups
    • Our research in action
    • Research funding support
    • Summer internships for undergraduates
  • Study
    • Undergraduates
    • Postgraduates
  • Engage
    • For young people
    • For teachers
    • For the public
    • For alumni
    • For business
  • Support
Menu
Insertion of STC into TRT at the Department of Physics, Oxford
Credit: CERN

Minoo Kabirnezhad

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Research theme

  • Fundamental particles and interactions

Sub department

  • Particle Physics

Research groups

  • Particle theory
minoo.kabirnezhad@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 273449
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 679
  • About
  • Publications

Single pion production off free nucleons: Analysis of photon-, electron-, pion-, and neutrino-induced processes

Phys. Rev. D 114, 053009 (2026)

Authors:

Minoo Kabirnezhad

Abstract:

I present a unified model for single pion production in photo-, electro-, and neutrino-nucleon interactions that is applicable across the broad kinematic range in the GeV regime relevant to accelerator-based neutrino experiments. The model incorporates vector and axial-vector transition form factors for excited nucleon states with masses up to 2 GeV, together with nonresonant background contributions, within a meson dominance framework that respects quantum chromodynamic constraints and preserves unitarity. This construction ensures the correct asymptotic behavior at large momentum transfer (𝑄2) while providing a consistent description of the resonance and transition regions. At very low 𝑄2, the implementation of the conserved vector current and partially conserved axial current relations leads to reliable predictions and helps address challenges encountered in current neutrino data analyses. The unified framework enables a global analysis that combines the available electron, photon, pion, and neutrino scattering data. This comprehensive approach allows detailed studies of nucleon structure in the resonance region and provides important constraints on weak interaction form factors, where modern neutrino-nucleon data remain limited. By determining all model parameters simultaneously with their correlated uncertainties, the approach establishes a robust, data-driven foundation for precision neutrino interaction modeling in support of next-generation neutrino oscillation measurements.
More details from the publisher

Single pion production in electron-nucleon interactions

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 102:5 (2020) 053009
More details from the publisher
More details

Search for heavy neutrinos with the T2K near detector ND280

Phys. Rev. D100 (2019) 5

Authors:

K Abe, others
More details from the publisher
Details from ORA
More details
Details from ArXiV

Characterization of nuclear effects in muon-neutrino scattering on hydrocarbon with a measurement of final-state kinematics and correlations in charged-current pionless interactions at T2K

Phys. Rev. D98 (2019) 3

Authors:

K Abe, others
More details from the publisher
Details from ORA
More details
Details from ArXiV

Search for neutral-current induced single photon production at the ND280 near detector in T2K

Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics IOP Publishing 46:8 (2019) 08LT01

Authors:

K Abe, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Andreopoulos, L Anthony, M Antonova, S Aoki, A Ariga, Y Ashida, Y Awataguchi, Y Azuma, S Ban, M Barbi, GJ Barker, Giles Barr, C Barry, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, F Bench, V Berardi, S Berkman, RM Berner, L Berns, S Bhadra, S Bienstock, A Blondel

Abstract:

All rights reserved. Neutrino neutral-current (NC) induced single photon production is a subleading order process for accelerator-based neutrino beam experiments including T2K. It is, however, an important process to understand because it is a background for electron (anti)neutrino appearance oscillation experiments. Here, we performed the first search of this process below 1 GeV using the finegrained detector at the T2K ND280 off-axis near detector. By reconstructing single photon kinematics from electron positron pairs, we achieved 95% pure gamma ray sample from 5.738 1020 protons-on-targets neutrino mode data. We do not find positive evidence of NC induced single photon production in this sample. We set the model-dependent upper limit on the cross-section for this process, at 0.114 10-38 cm2 (90% C.L.) per nucleon, using the J-PARC off-axis neutrino beam with an average energy of .En. ~ 0.6 GeV. This is the first limit on this process below 1.GeV which is important for current and future oscillation experiments looking for electron neutrino appearance oscillation signals.
More details from the publisher
Details from ORA
More details
Details from ArXiV

Pagination

  • Current page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • Page 8
  • Next page Next
  • Last page Last

Footer Menu

  • Contact us
  • Giving to the Dept of Physics
  • Work with us
  • Media

User account menu

  • Log in

Follow us

FIND US

Clarendon Laboratory,

Parks Road,

Oxford,

OX1 3PU

CONTACT US

Tel: +44(0)1865272200

University of Oxfrod logo Department Of Physics text logo
IOP Juno Champion logo Athena Swan Silver Award logo

© University of Oxford - Department of Physics

Cookies | Privacy policy | Accessibility statement

Built by: Versantus

  • Home
  • Research
  • Study
  • Engage
  • Our people
  • News & Comment
  • Events
  • Our facilities & services
  • About us
  • Giving to Physics
  • Current students
  • Staff intranet