Measurement of neutrino-induced charged-current charged pion production cross sections on mineral oil at Eν∼1GeV

Authors

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
C. E. Anderson, Yale University
A. O. Bazarko, Princeton University
S. J. Brice, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
B. C. Brown, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
L. Bugel, Columbia University
J. Cao, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
L. Coney, Columbia University
J. M. Conrad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
D. C. Cox, Indiana University Bloomington
A. Curioni, Yale University
R. Dharmapalan, The University of Alabama
Z. Djurcic, Argonne National Laboratory
D. A. Finley, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
B. T. Fleming, Yale University
R. Ford, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
F. G. Garcia, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
G. T. Garvey, Los Alamos National Laboratory
J. Grange, University of Florida
C. Green, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
J. A. Green, Indiana University Bloomington
T. L. Hart, University of Colorado Boulder
E. Hawker, University of Cincinnati
R. Imlay, Louisiana State University
R. A. Johnson, University of Cincinnati
G. Karagiorgi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
P. Kasper, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
T. Katori, Indiana University Bloomington
T. Kobilarcik, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
I. Kourbanis, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
S. Koutsoliotas, Bucknell University
E. M. Laird, Princeton University
S. K. Linden, Yale University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-23-2011

Abstract

Using a high-statistics, high-purity sample of νμ-induced charged current, charged pion events in mineral oil (CH2), MiniBooNE reports a collection of interaction cross sections for this process. This includes measurements of the CCπ+ cross section as a function of neutrino energy, as well as flux-averaged single- and double-differential cross sections of the energy and direction of both the final-state muon and pion. In addition, each of the single-differential cross sections are extracted as a function of neutrino energy to decouple the shape of the MiniBooNE energy spectrum from the results. In many cases, these cross sections are the first time such quantities have been measured on a nuclear target and in the 1 GeV energy range. © 2011 American Physical Society.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Recommended Citation

Aguilar-Arevalo, A., Anderson, C., Bazarko, A., Brice, S., Brown, B., Bugel, L., Cao, J., Coney, L., Conrad, J., Cox, D., Curioni, A., Dharmapalan, R., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D., Fleming, B., Ford, R., Garcia, F., Garvey, G., Grange, J., Green, C., Green, J., Hart, T., Hawker, E., Imlay, R., Johnson, R., Karagiorgi, G., Kasper, P., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Kourbanis, I., Koutsoliotas, S., Laird, E., & Linden, S. (2011). Measurement of neutrino-induced charged-current charged pion production cross sections on mineral oil at Eν∼1GeV. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 83 (5) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.052007