First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We report the first measurement of monoenergetic muon neutrino charged current interactions. MiniBooNE has isolated 236 MeV muon neutrino events originating from charged kaon decay at rest (K+→μ+νμ) at the NuMI beamline absorber. These signal νμ-carbon events are distinguished from primarily pion decay in flight νμ and ¯νμ backgrounds produced at the target station and decay pipe using their arrival time and reconstructed muon energy. The significance of the signal observation is at the 3.9σ level. The muon kinetic energy, neutrino-nucleus energy transfer (ω=Eν−Eμ), and total cross section for these events are extracted. This result is the first known-energy, weak-interaction-only probe of the nucleus to yield a measurement of ω using neutrinos, a quantity thus far only accessible through electron scattering.
Date Issued
2018-04-06
Date Acceptance
2018-03-05
Citation
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2018, 120 (14)
ISSN
0031-9007
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume
120
Issue
14
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Author(s). 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.
Sponsor
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
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Grant Number
ST/F009976/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Physics
SIMULATION
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 141802
Date Publish Online
2018-04-06