Simultaneous measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current cross section on oxygen and carbon without pions in the final state at T2K
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Journal Article
Abstract
This paper reports the first simultaneous measurement of the double differential muon neutrino charged-current cross section on oxygen and carbon without pions in the final state as a function of the outgoing muon kinematics, made at the ND280 off-axis near detector of the T2K experiment. The ratio of the oxygen and carbon cross sections is also provided to help validate various models’ ability to extrapolate between carbon and oxygen nuclear targets, as is required in T2K oscillation analyses. The data are taken using a neutrino beam with an energy spectrum peaked at 0.6 GeV. The extracted measurement is compared with the prediction from different Monte Carlo neutrino-nucleus interaction event generators, showing particular model separation for very forward-going muons. Overall, of the models tested, the result is best described using local Fermi gas descriptions of the nuclear ground state with RPA suppression.
Date Issued
2020-06-16
Date Acceptance
2020-05-21
Citation
Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2020, 101 (11), pp.112004 – 1-112004 – 32
ISSN
1550-2368
Publisher
American Physical Society
Start Page
112004 – 1
End Page
112004 – 32
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume
101
Issue
11
Copyright Statement
Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.
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Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
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Grant Number
ST/S001174/4
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
SCATTERING
NUCLEI
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 112004
Date Publish Online
2020-06-16