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Title: A measurement of the neutral current neutrino-nucleon elastic cross section at MiniBooNE

Abstract

The neutral current neutrino-nucleon elastic interaction v N → v N is a fundamental process of the weak interaction ideally suited for characterizing the structure of the nucleon neutral weak current. This process comprises ~18% of neutrino events in the neutrino oscillation experiment, MiniBooNE, ranking it as the experiment's third largest process. Using ~10% of MiniBooNE's available neutrino data, a sample of these events were identified and analyzed to determine the differential cross section as a function of the momentum transfer of the interaction, Q2. This is the first measurement of a differential cross section with MiniBooNE data. From this analysis, a value for the nucleon axial mass MA was extracted to be 1.34 ± 0.25 GeV consistent with previous measurements. The integrated cross section for the Q2 range 0.189 → 1.13 GeV2 was calculated to be (8.8 ± 0.6(stat) ± 0.2(syst)) x 10-40 cm2.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
928512
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-THESIS-2008-08
TRN: US0804131
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Thesis/Dissertation
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; CROSS SECTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; NEUTRAL CURRENTS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; NEUTRINOS; NUCLEONS; WEAK INTERACTIONS; Experiment-HEP

Citation Formats

Cox, David Christopher. A measurement of the neutral current neutrino-nucleon elastic cross section at MiniBooNE. United States: N. p., 2008. Web. doi:10.2172/928512.
Cox, David Christopher. A measurement of the neutral current neutrino-nucleon elastic cross section at MiniBooNE. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/928512
Cox, David Christopher. 2008. "A measurement of the neutral current neutrino-nucleon elastic cross section at MiniBooNE". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/928512. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/928512.
@article{osti_928512,
title = {A measurement of the neutral current neutrino-nucleon elastic cross section at MiniBooNE},
author = {Cox, David Christopher},
abstractNote = {The neutral current neutrino-nucleon elastic interaction v N → v N is a fundamental process of the weak interaction ideally suited for characterizing the structure of the nucleon neutral weak current. This process comprises ~18% of neutrino events in the neutrino oscillation experiment, MiniBooNE, ranking it as the experiment's third largest process. Using ~10% of MiniBooNE's available neutrino data, a sample of these events were identified and analyzed to determine the differential cross section as a function of the momentum transfer of the interaction, Q2. This is the first measurement of a differential cross section with MiniBooNE data. From this analysis, a value for the nucleon axial mass MA was extracted to be 1.34 ± 0.25 GeV consistent with previous measurements. The integrated cross section for the Q2 range 0.189 → 1.13 GeV2 was calculated to be (8.8 ± 0.6(stat) ± 0.2(syst)) x 10-40 cm2.},
doi = {10.2172/928512},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/928512}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2008},
month = {Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2008}
}

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