First measurement of the νμ charged-current cross section on a water target without pions in the final state

Authors

K. Abe, The University of Tokyo
J. Amey, Imperial College London
C. Andreopoulos, University of Liverpool
M. Antonova, Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
S. Aoki, Kobe University
A. Ariga, University of Bern
Y. Ashida, Kyoto University
S. Ban, Kyoto University
M. Barbi, University of Regina
G. J. Barker, University of Warwick
G. Barr, University of Oxford
C. Barry, University of Liverpool
M. Batkiewicz, Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
V. Berardi, Politecnico di Bari
S. Berkman, The University of British Columbia
S. Bhadra, York University
S. Bienstock, Université de Paris
A. Blondel, Université de Genève
S. Bolognesi, Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
S. Bordoni, Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Bellaterra
S. B. Boyd, University of Warwick
D. Brailsford, Lancaster University
A. Bravar, Université de Genève
C. Bronner, The University of Tokyo
M. Buizza Avanzini, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
R. G. Calland, The University of Tokyo
T. Campbell, Colorado State University
S. Cao, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Abstract

This paper reports the first differential measurement of the charged-current interaction cross section of νμ on water with no pions in the final state. This flux-averaged measurement has been made using the T2K experiment's off-axis near detector, and is reported in doubly differential bins of muon momentum and angle. The flux-averaged total cross section in a restricted region of phase space was found to be σ=(0.95±0.08(stat)±0.06(det syst)±0.04(model syst)±0.08(flux))×10-38 cm2/n.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physical Review D

Recommended Citation

Abe, K., Amey, J., Andreopoulos, C., Antonova, M., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., Ashida, Y., Ban, S., Barbi, M., Barker, G., Barr, G., Barry, C., Batkiewicz, M., Berardi, V., Berkman, S., Bhadra, S., Bienstock, S., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Boyd, S., Brailsford, D., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Buizza Avanzini, M., Calland, R., Campbell, T., & Cao, S. (2018). First measurement of the νμ charged-current cross section on a water target without pions in the final state. Physical Review D, 97 (1) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.012001