First measurement of the muon neutrino charged current quasielastic double differential cross section

Journal Article · Sat May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.092005· OSTI ID:21409916

Aguilar-Arevalo, A A ^[1]; Anderson, C E; Curioni, A; Fleming, B T; Linden, S K; Soderberg, M; Spitz, J ^[2]; Bazarko, A O; Laird, E M; Meyers, P D; Patterson, R B; Shoemaker, F C; Tanaka, H A ^[3]; Brice, S J; Brown, B C; Finley, D A; Ford, R; Garcia, F G; Kasper, P; Kobilarcik, T ^[4]

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1. Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico, D.F. 04510 (Mexico)
2. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 (United States)
3. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)
4. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)

A high-statistics sample of charged-current muon neutrino scattering events collected with the MiniBooNE experiment is analyzed to extract the first measurement of the double differential cross section ((d{sup 2{sigma}}/dT{sub {mu}d}cos{theta}{sub {mu}})) for charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) scattering on carbon. This result features minimal model dependence and provides the most complete information on this process to date. With the assumption of CCQE scattering, the absolute cross section as a function of neutrino energy ({sigma}[E{sub {nu}}]) and the single differential cross section ((d{sigma}/dQ{sup 2})) are extracted to facilitate comparison with previous measurements. These quantities may be used to characterize an effective axial-vector form factor of the nucleon and to improve the modeling of low-energy neutrino interactions on nuclear targets. The results are relevant for experiments searching for neutrino oscillations.

• OSTI ID: 21409916
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.092005; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
CARBON
CHARGED CURRENTS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS
FORM FACTORS
MUON NEUTRINOS
NEUTRINO OSCILLATION
NEUTRINO-MUON INTERACTIONS
NUCLEONS
QUASI-ELASTIC SCATTERING
SCATTERING
SIMULATION
ALGEBRAIC CURRENTS
BARYONS
CROSS SECTIONS
CURRENTS
DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS
DIRECT REACTIONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ELEMENTS
EVALUATION
FERMIONS
HADRONS
INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-LEPTON INTERACTIONS
LEPTONS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
NEUTRINOS
NONMETALS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
QUASI-FREE REACTIONS