Neutrino and antineutrino inclusive charged-current cross section measurement with the MINOS near detector

Thesis/Dissertation · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/952653· OSTI ID:952653

Bhattacharya, Debdatta ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)

This thesis presents the measurement of energy dependence of the neutrino-nucleon inclusive charged current cross section on an isoscalar target in the range 3-50 GeV for neutrinos and 5-50 GeV energy range for antineutrinos. The data set was collected with the MINOS Near Detector using the wide band NuMI beam at Fermilab. The size of the charged current sample is 1.94 x 10⁶ neutrino events and 1.60 x 10⁵ antineutrino events. The flux has been extracted using a low hadronic energy sub-sample of the charged current events. The energy dependence of the cross section is obtained by dividing the charged current sample with the extracted flux. The neutrino and antineutrino cross section exhibits a linear dependence on energy at high energy but shows deviations from linear behavior at low energy. We also present a measurement of the ratio of antineutrino to neutrino inclusive cross section.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 952653
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-THESIS--2009-11
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANTINEUTRINOS
CHARGED CURRENTS
CROSS SECTIONS
ENERGY DEPENDENCE
ENERGY RANGE
Experiment-HEP
FERMILAB
NEUTRINOS
TARGETS