Cross-section measurements in the NOMAD experiment

The NOMAD experiment was designed to search for ντ appearance from neutrino oscillations in the CERN wide-band neutrino beam produced by the 450 GeV proton synchrotron. The single-particle reconstruction and lepton identification capability of the NOMAD detector allowed the search for ντ appearance in most of the leptonic and hadronic τ decay channels [1] and also to look for νμ → νe oscillations [2]. No evidence for oscillations was found. The high resolution and reconstruction quality makes the NOMAD data samples a valuable resource for the neutrino physics community. The recent measurements of cross-sections and particle production would help to clarify our understanding of neutrino interactions with nuclei at intermediate energies. In addition, it must be noted the precise tracking in a light target provides a powerful tool to tune and validate Monte Carlo simulation programs for future experiments. This analysis activity can benefit from the beam and detector studies performed for the oscillation searches.