Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA

Ruterbories, D.; Ahmad Dar, Z.; Akbar, F.; Ascencio, M. V.; Bashyal, A.; Bercellie, A.; Betancourt, M.; Bodek, A.; Bonilla, J. L.; Bravar, A.; Budd, H.; Caceres, G.; Cai, T.; Carneiro, M. F.; Díaz, G. A.; da Motta, H.; Felix, J.; Fields, L.; Filkins, A.; Fine, R.; Gago, A. M.; Gallagher, H.; Ghosh, A.; Gran, R.; Harris, D. A.; Henry, S.; Jena, D.; Jena, S.; Kleykamp, J.; Kordosky, M.; Last, D.; Le, T.; Lozano, A.; Lu, X. -G.; Maher, E.; Manly, S.; Mann, W. A.; Mauger, C.; McFarland, K. S.; McGowan, A. M.; Messerly, B.; Miller, J.; Morfín, J. G.; Naples, D.; Nelson, J. K.; Nguyen, C.; Norrick, A.; Olivier, A.; Paolone, V.; Perdue, G. N.; Plows, K. -J.; Ramírez, M. A.; Ray, H.; Schellman, H.; Solano Salinas, C. J.; Su, H.; Sultana, M.; Syrotenko, V. S.; Valencia, E.; Vaughan, N. H.; Waldron, A. V.; Yaeggy, B.; Yang, K.; Zazueta, L.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.092010

Title: Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA

Abstract

Inverse muon decay, v_μe¯ → μ¯v_e, is a reaction whose cross section can be predicted with very small uncertainties. It has a neutrino energy threshold of ≈ 11 GeV and can be used to constrain the high-energy part of the flux in the NuMI neutrino beam. This reaction is the dominant source of events which only contain high-energy muons nearly parallel to the direction of the neutrino beam. We have isolated a sample of hundreds of such events in neutrino and antineutrino enhanced beams, and have constrained the predicted high-energy flux.

Authors:

Ruterbories, D.; Ahmad Dar, Z.; Akbar, F.; Ascencio, M. V.; Bashyal, A.; Bercellie, A.; Betancourt, M.; Bodek, A.; Bonilla, J. L.; Bravar, A.; Budd, H.; Caceres, G.; Cai, T.; Carneiro, M. F.; Díaz, G. A.; da Motta, H.; Felix, J.; Fields, L.; Filkins, A.; Fine, R. more »; Gago, A. M.; Gallagher, H.; Ghosh, A.; Gran, R.; Harris, D. A.; Henry, S.; Jena, D.; Jena, S.; Kleykamp, J.; Kordosky, M.; Last, D.; Le, T.; Lozano, A.; Lu, X. -G.; Maher, E.; Manly, S.; Mann, W. A.; Mauger, C.;

; McGowan, A. M.; Messerly, B.; Miller, J.; Morfín, J. G.; Naples, D.; Nelson, J. K.; Nguyen, C.; Norrick, A.; Olivier, A.; Paolone, V.; Perdue, G. N.; Plows, K. -J.; Ramírez, M. A.; Ray, H.; Schellman, H.; Solano Salinas, C. J.; Su, H.; Sultana, M.; Syrotenko, V. S.; Valencia, E.; Vaughan, N. H.; Waldron, A. V.; Yaeggy, B.; Yang, K.; Zazueta, L.; MINERνA Collaboration"" class="biblio-detail-author-link">The

MINER ν A

Collaboration

Publication Date:: Tue Nov 23 00:00:00 EST 2021

Research Org.:: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); NCN Opus

Contributing Org.:: MINERvA Collaboration; MINERVA Collaboration

OSTI Identifier:: 1832248

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1824316; OSTI ID: 1838652

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-21-312-E-SCD; arXiv:2107.01059
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; PRVDAQ; 092010

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; PHY-0619727; 3170845; 11130133; 216/21/B/ST2/01092; 27467; CHE2039044; SC0008475

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: Physical Review D

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 104 Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; lepton-lepton interactions; secondary beams; neutrino detectors; particle production

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                    Ruterbories, D., Ahmad Dar, Z., Akbar, F., Ascencio, M. V., Bashyal, A., Bercellie, A., Betancourt, M., Bodek, A., Bonilla, J. L., Bravar, A., Budd, H., Caceres, G., Cai, T., Carneiro, M. F., Díaz, G. A., da Motta, H., Felix, J., Fields, L., Filkins, A., Fine, R., Gago, A. M., Gallagher, H., Ghosh, A., Gran, R., Harris, D. A., Henry, S., Jena, D., Jena, S., Kleykamp, J., Kordosky, M., Last, D., Le, T., Lozano, A., Lu, X. -G., Maher, E., Manly, S., Mann, W. A., Mauger, C., McFarland, K. S., McGowan, A. M., Messerly, B., Miller, J., Morfín, J. G., Naples, D., Nelson, J. K., Nguyen, C., Norrick, A., Olivier, A., Paolone, V., Perdue, G. N., Plows, K. -J., Ramírez, M. A., Ray, H., Schellman, H., Solano Salinas, C. J., Su, H., Sultana, M., Syrotenko, V. S., Valencia, E., Vaughan, N. H., Waldron, A. V., Yaeggy, B., Yang, K., Zazueta, L., and The  $MINER ν A$  Collaboration. Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA.  United States: N. p., 2021. 
Web.  doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.092010.

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                    Ruterbories, D., Ahmad Dar, Z., Akbar, F., Ascencio, M. V., Bashyal, A., Bercellie, A., Betancourt, M., Bodek, A., Bonilla, J. L., Bravar, A., Budd, H., Caceres, G., Cai, T., Carneiro, M. F., Díaz, G. A., da Motta, H., Felix, J., Fields, L., Filkins, A., Fine, R., Gago, A. M., Gallagher, H., Ghosh, A., Gran, R., Harris, D. A., Henry, S., Jena, D., Jena, S., Kleykamp, J., Kordosky, M., Last, D., Le, T., Lozano, A., Lu, X. -G., Maher, E., Manly, S., Mann, W. A., Mauger, C., McFarland, K. S., McGowan, A. M., Messerly, B., Miller, J., Morfín, J. G., Naples, D., Nelson, J. K., Nguyen, C., Norrick, A., Olivier, A., Paolone, V., Perdue, G. N., Plows, K. -J., Ramírez, M. A., Ray, H., Schellman, H., Solano Salinas, C. J., Su, H., Sultana, M., Syrotenko, V. S., Valencia, E., Vaughan, N. H., Waldron, A. V., Yaeggy, B., Yang, K., Zazueta, L., & The  $MINER ν A$  Collaboration. Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.092010

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                    Ruterbories, D., Ahmad Dar, Z., Akbar, F., Ascencio, M. V., Bashyal, A., Bercellie, A., Betancourt, M., Bodek, A., Bonilla, J. L., Bravar, A., Budd, H., Caceres, G., Cai, T., Carneiro, M. F., Díaz, G. A., da Motta, H., Felix, J., Fields, L., Filkins, A., Fine, R., Gago, A. M., Gallagher, H., Ghosh, A., Gran, R., Harris, D. A., Henry, S., Jena, D., Jena, S., Kleykamp, J., Kordosky, M., Last, D., Le, T., Lozano, A., Lu, X. -G., Maher, E., Manly, S., Mann, W. A., Mauger, C., McFarland, K. S., McGowan, A. M., Messerly, B., Miller, J., Morfín, J. G., Naples, D., Nelson, J. K., Nguyen, C., Norrick, A., Olivier, A., Paolone, V., Perdue, G. N., Plows, K. -J., Ramírez, M. A., Ray, H., Schellman, H., Solano Salinas, C. J., Su, H., Sultana, M., Syrotenko, V. S., Valencia, E., Vaughan, N. H., Waldron, A. V., Yaeggy, B., Yang, K., Zazueta, L., and The  $MINER ν A$  Collaboration. Tue .  
"Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.092010.

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@article{osti_1832248,

  title        = {Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA},

  author       = {Ruterbories, D. and Ahmad Dar, Z. and Akbar, F. and Ascencio, M. V. and Bashyal, A. and Bercellie, A. and Betancourt, M. and Bodek, A. and Bonilla, J. L. and Bravar, A. and Budd, H. and Caceres, G. and Cai, T. and Carneiro, M. F. and Díaz, G. A. and da Motta, H. and Felix, J. and Fields, L. and Filkins, A. and Fine, R. and Gago, A. M. and Gallagher, H. and Ghosh, A. and Gran, R. and Harris, D. A. and Henry, S. and Jena, D. and Jena, S. and Kleykamp, J. and Kordosky, M. and Last, D. and Le, T. and Lozano, A. and Lu, X. -G. and Maher, E. and Manly, S. and Mann, W. A. and Mauger, C. and McFarland, K. S. and McGowan, A. M. and Messerly, B. and Miller, J. and Morfín, J. G. and Naples, D. and Nelson, J. K. and Nguyen, C. and Norrick, A. and Olivier, A. and Paolone, V. and Perdue, G. N. and Plows, K. -J. and Ramírez, M. A. and Ray, H. and Schellman, H. and Solano Salinas, C. J. and Su, H. and Sultana, M. and Syrotenko, V. S. and Valencia, E. and Vaughan, N. H. and Waldron, A. V. and Yaeggy, B. and Yang, K. and Zazueta, L. and The  $MINER ν A$  Collaboration},

  abstractNote = {Inverse muon decay, vμe¯ → μ¯ve, is a reaction whose cross section can be predicted with very small uncertainties. It has a neutrino energy threshold of ≈ 11 GeV and can be used to constrain the high-energy part of the flux in the NuMI neutrino beam. This reaction is the dominant source of events which only contain high-energy muons nearly parallel to the direction of the neutrino beam. We have isolated a sample of hundreds of such events in neutrino and antineutrino enhanced beams, and have constrained the predicted high-energy flux.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevD.104.092010},

  journal      = {Physical Review D},

  number       = 9,

  volume       = 104,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue Nov 23 00:00:00 EST 2021},

  month        = {Tue Nov 23 00:00:00 EST 2021}

}

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The magnetized steel and scintillator calorimeters of the MINOS experiment journal, November 2008

Measurement of neutrino flux from neutrino-electron elastic scattering journal, June 2016

True absorption and scattering of pions on nuclei journal, May 1981

Measurements of neutrino oscillation in appearance and disappearance channels by the T2K experiment with 6.6 × 1 0 20 protons on target journal, April 2015

Geant4—a simulation toolkit journal, July 2003

Muon energy spectrum in inverse μ-decay journal, January 1987

Total non-elastic cross sections of neutrons on C, O, Ca, and Fe at 40.3 and 50.4 MeV journal, March 1981

In medium dispersion relation effects in nuclear inclusive reactions at intermediate and low energies journal, August 2017

Inclusive production of charged pions in p + C collisions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum journal, February 2007

A New Parameterization of the Nucleon Elastic Form Factors journal, September 2006

Neutrino-excitation of baryon resonances and single pion production journal, April 1981

Theory of elastic neutrino-electron scattering journal, February 2020

Total-Reaction-Cross-Section Measurements for 30-60-MeV Protons and the Imaginary Optical Potential journal, October 1971

Design, calibration, and performance of the MINERvA detector
journal, April 2014

Publisher’s Note: Neutrino flux predictions for the NuMI beam [Phys. Rev. D 94 , 092005 (2016)]
journal, February 2017

Electron-neutrino scattering off nuclei from two different theoretical perspectives
journal, July 2016

Neutrino-nucleus quasi-elastic and 2p2h interactions up to 10 GeV
journal, December 2013

A comparison of π+ and π− total cross sections of light nuclei near the 3−3 resonance
journal, October 1973

High-Statistics Measurement of Neutrino Quasielasticlike Scattering at 6 GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target
journal, March 2020

Neutrino Event Generators
conference, January 2007

Neutron-Nucleus Total and Inelastic Cross Sections: 900 to 2600 $\frac{MeV}{c}$
journal, January 1973

Pion reaction cross sections and nuclear sizes
journal, July 1973

Pion-nucleus total cross sections from 88 to 860 MeV
journal, July 1974

Measurement of neutron total cross sections up to 560 MeV
journal, March 2001

Proton Total Reaction Cross Sections in the 10-20-MeV Range: Calcium-40 and Carbon-12
journal, August 1970

Neutrino-electron elastic scattering for flux determination at the DUNE oscillation experiment
journal, February 2020

Identification of Nuclear Effects in Neutrino-Carbon Interactions at Low Three-Momentum Transfer
journal, February 2016

Neutrino–electron scattering theory
journal, October 2003

Neutrino reactions on nuclear targets
journal, June 1972

Inclusive charged-current neutrino-nucleus reactions
journal, April 2011

MINERvA neutrino detector response measured with test beam data
journal, July 2015

The NuMI neutrino beam
journal, January 2016

The GENIE neutrino Monte Carlo generator
journal, February 2010

Inclusive quasielastic charged-current neutrino-nucleus reactions
journal, November 2004

First Measurement of Electron Neutrino Appearance in NOvA
journal, April 2016

Neutrino reactions at accelerator energies
journal, June 1972

Further studies of Fermi-motion effects in lepton scattering from nuclear targets
journal, September 1981

Constraining the GENIE model of neutrino-induced single pion production using reanalyzed bubble chamber data
journal, August 2016

Improved low Q2 model for neutrino and electron nucleon cross sections in few GeV region
journal, February 2005

Measurements of the proton total reaction cross section for light nuclei between 20 and 48 MeV
journal, December 1974

Neutrino flux predictions for the NuMI beam
journal, November 2016

The magnetized steel and scintillator calorimeters of the MINOS experiment
journal, November 2008

Measurement of neutrino flux from neutrino-electron elastic scattering
journal, June 2016

True absorption and scattering of pions on nuclei
journal, May 1981

Measurements of neutrino oscillation in appearance and disappearance channels by the T2K experiment with $6.6 \times 1 0^{20}$ protons on target
journal, April 2015

Geant4—a simulation toolkit
journal, July 2003

Muon energy spectrum in inverse μ-decay
journal, January 1987

Total non-elastic cross sections of neutrons on C, O, Ca, and Fe at 40.3 and 50.4 MeV
journal, March 1981

In medium dispersion relation effects in nuclear inclusive reactions at intermediate and low energies
journal, August 2017

Inclusive production of charged pions in p + C collisions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum
journal, February 2007

A New Parameterization of the Nucleon Elastic Form Factors
journal, September 2006

Neutrino-excitation of baryon resonances and single pion production
journal, April 1981

Theory of elastic neutrino-electron scattering
journal, February 2020

Total-Reaction-Cross-Section Measurements for 30-60-MeV Protons and the Imaginary Optical Potential
journal, October 1971