First measurement of the muon neutrino charged current quasielastic double differential cross section
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Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios
Katori, Teppei
McGary, Van Thanh
Conrad, Janet Marie
Date Issued
May 2010
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
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MiniBooNE Collaboration et al. “First measurement of the muon neutrino charged current quasielastic double differential cross section.” Physical Review D 81.9 (2010): 092005. © 2010 The American Physical Society.
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Abstract
A high-statistics sample of charged-current muon neutrino scattering events collected with the MiniBooNE experiment is analyzed to extract the first measurement of the double differential cross section for charged-current (d[superscript 2]sigma over dT [subscript mu dcos theta [subscript mu]) quasielastic (CCQE) scattering on carbon. This result features minimal model dependence and provides the most complete information on this process to date. With the assumption of CCQE scattering, the absolute cross section as a function of neutrino energy (sigma[Eν]) and the single differential cross section (d sigma/dQ2) are extracted to facilitate comparison with previous measurements. These quantities may be used to characterize an effective axial-vector form factor of the nucleon and to improve the modeling of low-energy neutrino interactions on nuclear targets. The results are relevant for experiments searching for neutrino oscillations.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.092005
