First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions
Abstract
We report the first measurement of monoenergetic muon neutrino charged current interactions. MiniBooNE has isolated 236 MeV muon neutrino events originating from charged kaon decay at rest ($$K^+ \rightarrow \mu^+ \nu_\mu$$) at the NuMI beamline absorber. These signal $$\nu_\mu$$-carbon events are distinguished from primarily pion decay in flight $$\nu_\mu$$ and $$\overline{\nu}_\mu$$ backgrounds produced at the target station and decay pipe using their arrival time and reconstructed muon energy. The significance of the signal observation is at the 3.9$$\sigma$$ level. The muon kinetic energy, neutrino-nucleus energy transfer ($$\omega=E_\nu-E_\mu$$), and total cross section for these events is extracted. Lastly, this result is the first known-energy, weak-interaction-only probe of the nucleus to yield a measurement of $$\omega$$ using neutrinos, a quantity thus far only accessible through electron scattering.
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- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Org.:
- MiniBooNE; MiniBooNE Collaboration
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1432100
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1432678; OSTI ID: 1438125; OSTI ID: 1638361
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-18-009-AD-ND-PPD; arXiv:1801.03848; LA-UR-18-22848
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; 141802
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; SC0007859; AC52-06NA25396
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 120 Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; electroweak interactions in nuclear physics; neutrino interactions; neutrino oscillations; nucleus-neutrino interactions; neutrinos; neutrino detectors; Atomic and Nuclear Physics; Neutrino Cross Sections
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Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cheng, G., Church, E. D., Conrad, J. M., Cooper, R. L., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Fitzpatrick, R. S., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Huelsnitz, W., Ignarra, C., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Jordan, J. R., Karagiorgi, G., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Louis, W. C., Mahn, K., Mariani, C., Marsh, W., Mills, G. B., Mirabal, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nienaber, P., Osmanov, B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Shaevitz, M. H., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Tayloe, R., Thornton, R. T., Van de Water, R. G., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Zeller, G. P., Zimmerman, E. D., and MiniBooNE Collaboration. First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.141802.
Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cheng, G., Church, E. D., Conrad, J. M., Cooper, R. L., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Fitzpatrick, R. S., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Huelsnitz, W., Ignarra, C., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Jordan, J. R., Karagiorgi, G., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Louis, W. C., Mahn, K., Mariani, C., Marsh, W., Mills, G. B., Mirabal, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nienaber, P., Osmanov, B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Shaevitz, M. H., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Tayloe, R., Thornton, R. T., Van de Water, R. G., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Zeller, G. P., Zimmerman, E. D., & MiniBooNE Collaboration. First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.141802
Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A., Brown, B. C., Bugel, L., Cheng, G., Church, E. D., Conrad, J. M., Cooper, R. L., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D. A., Fitzpatrick, R. S., Ford, R., Garcia, F. G., Garvey, G. T., Grange, J., Huelsnitz, W., Ignarra, C., Imlay, R., Johnson, R. A., Jordan, J. R., Karagiorgi, G., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Louis, W. C., Mahn, K., Mariani, C., Marsh, W., Mills, G. B., Mirabal, J., Moore, C. D., Mousseau, J., Nienaber, P., Osmanov, B., Pavlovic, Z., Perevalov, D., Ray, H., Roe, B. P., Russell, A. D., Shaevitz, M. H., Spitz, J., Stancu, I., Tayloe, R., Thornton, R. T., Van de Water, R. G., Wascko, M. O., White, D. H., Wickremasinghe, D. A., Zeller, G. P., Zimmerman, E. D., and MiniBooNE Collaboration. Fri .
"First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.141802.
@article{osti_1432100,
title = {First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions},
author = {Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A. and Brown, B. C. and Bugel, L. and Cheng, G. and Church, E. D. and Conrad, J. M. and Cooper, R. L. and Dharmapalan, R. and Djurcic, Z. and Finley, D. A. and Fitzpatrick, R. S. and Ford, R. and Garcia, F. G. and Garvey, G. T. and Grange, J. and Huelsnitz, W. and Ignarra, C. and Imlay, R. and Johnson, R. A. and Jordan, J. R. and Karagiorgi, G. and Katori, T. and Kobilarcik, T. and Louis, W. C. and Mahn, K. and Mariani, C. and Marsh, W. and Mills, G. B. and Mirabal, J. and Moore, C. D. and Mousseau, J. and Nienaber, P. and Osmanov, B. and Pavlovic, Z. and Perevalov, D. and Ray, H. and Roe, B. P. and Russell, A. D. and Shaevitz, M. H. and Spitz, J. and Stancu, I. and Tayloe, R. and Thornton, R. T. and Van de Water, R. G. and Wascko, M. O. and White, D. H. and Wickremasinghe, D. A. and Zeller, G. P. and Zimmerman, E. D. and MiniBooNE Collaboration},
abstractNote = {We report the first measurement of monoenergetic muon neutrino charged current interactions. MiniBooNE has isolated 236 MeV muon neutrino events originating from charged kaon decay at rest ($K^+ \rightarrow \mu^+ \nu_\mu$) at the NuMI beamline absorber. These signal $\nu_\mu$-carbon events are distinguished from primarily pion decay in flight $\nu_\mu$ and $\overline{\nu}_\mu$ backgrounds produced at the target station and decay pipe using their arrival time and reconstructed muon energy. The significance of the signal observation is at the 3.9$\sigma$ level. The muon kinetic energy, neutrino-nucleus energy transfer ($\omega=E_\nu-E_\mu$), and total cross section for these events is extracted. Lastly, this result is the first known-energy, weak-interaction-only probe of the nucleus to yield a measurement of $\omega$ using neutrinos, a quantity thus far only accessible through electron scattering.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.141802},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 14,
volume = 120,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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FIG. 1: The NuMI beamline and various sources of neutrinos that reach MiniBooNE (dashed lines). The signal KDAR neutrinos (solid line) originate mainly from the absorber.
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