Precise measurement of neutrino and anti-neutrino differential cross sections on iron

Thesis/Dissertation · Tue Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1415849· OSTI ID:1415849

Tzanov, Martin Mihaylov ^[1]

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1. Pittsburgh U.

This thesis will present a precise measurement of the differential cross section for charged current neutrino and anti-neutrino scattering from iron. The NuTeV experiment took data during 1996-97 and collected 8.6 10 º and 2.4 10 º charged-current (CC) interactions. The experiment combines sign-selected neutrino and antineutrino beams and the upgraded CCFR iron-scintillator neutrino detector. A precision continuous calibration beam was used to determine the muon and hadron energy scales to a precision of about a factor of two better than previous experiments. The structure functions F (x,Q2) and xF3(x,Q2) are extracted and compared with theory and previous measurements.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1415849
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-THESIS-2005-92; UMI-32-06840; 705683
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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