Cross section measurements with monoenergetic muon neutrinos
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Author(s)
Spitz, Joshua B.
Date Issued
April 2014
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Spitz, J. “Cross Section Measurements with Monoenergetic Muon Neutrinos.” Phys. Rev. D 89, no. 7 (April 2014). © 2014 American Physical Society
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Final published version
Abstract
The monoenergetic 236 MeV muon neutrino from charged kaon decay at rest (K[superscript +] → μ[superscript +]ν[subscript μ]) can be used to produce a novel set of cross section measurements. Applicable for short- and long-baseline accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments, among others, such measurements would provide a “standard candle” for the energy reconstruction and interaction kinematics relevant for charged current neutrino events near this energy. This neutrino can also be exercised as a unique known-energy, purely weak interacting probe of the nucleus. A number of experiments are set to come online in the next few years that will be able to collect and characterize thousands of these events.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.073007
