Charged and neutral pion production in the MINERνA experiment

MINERνA is a neutrino scattering experiment that uses the NuMI beamline with the goal of measuring neutrino-nucleus cross sections on different nuclei with high precision, as well as studying the internal structure of the nuclei of those materials. Charged and neutral pion production are significant since they represent a large fraction of the events that can be seen in our detector, are highly relevant to oscillation experiments like NOνA and DUNE, and are affected by the underlying structure of the target nuclei. I will present the current results on pion production measured by the MINERvA experiment using a neutrino beam of 3.6 GeV, and the plans for enhancing these cross section studies on different nuclei with a higher energy neutrino beam.