Muon-neutrino carbon charged-current interaction near the muon threshold

Journal Article · Mon Nov 30 23:00:00 EST 1992 · Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.46.2554· OSTI ID:6948813

Koetke, D D; Fisk, R; Koetke, D S; Manweiler, R ^[1]; Bowles, T J; Brown, A; Brown, R E; Burman, R L; Clark, D A; Clearwater, S; Dombeck, T; Kruse, H; Lee, D ^[2]; Aas, B; Igo, G ^[3]; Newsom, C ^[4]; Beavis, D; Fung, S Y; Gorn, W; Poe, R T ; VanDalen, G J ^[5]; Bassalleck, B; Dieterle, B; Gregory, C; Hill, R E; Kang, J H; Leavitt, C ^[6]; Auerbach, L; Datta, S; Huang, Y ^[7]

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1. Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383 (United States)
2. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
3. University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024 (United States)
4. University of California, Los Angeles, California and University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 (United States)
5. University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (United States)
6. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 (United States)
7. Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 (United States)

A measurement of the muon-neutrino carbon charged-current cross section, {sup 12}C({nu}{sub {mu}},{mu}{sup {minus}}){ital X}, was performed using the in-flight pion-decay neutrino source at the LAMPF accelerator. At an average interacting neutrino energy of 202 MeV an inclusive cross section of (15.9{plus minus}2.6{plus minus}3.7){times}10{sup {minus}39} cm{sup 2} was measured. This value is in best agreement with the Fermi-gas model and is in disagreement with a previous experiment and subsequent calculations that yielded substantially lower cross sections. However, the muon energy spectrum shows a marked depletion of events at high energies compared to the Fermi-gas model. From a small sample of events in which the final-state nucleus was in the ground state of {sup 12}N, a cross section for the reaction {sup 12}C({nu}{sub {mu}},{mu}{sup {minus}}){sup 12}N(g.s.) of (1.7{plus minus}0.8{plus minus}0.3){times}10{sup {minus}39} cm{sup 2} or about 11{plus minus}5 % of the total event rate was obtained.

• OSTI ID: 6948813
• Journal Information: Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States) Vol. 46:6; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
CARBON 12 TARGET
CHARGED-CURRENT INTERACTIONS
CROSS SECTIONS
DATA
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY RANGE
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FERMIONS
INCLUSIVE INTERACTIONS
INFORMATION
INTERACTIONS
LEPTON REACTIONS
LEPTONS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MEV RANGE
MEV RANGE 100-1000
MUON NEUTRINOS
MUONS
MUONS MINUS
NEUTRINO REACTIONS
NEUTRINOS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUMERICAL DATA
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
TARGETS