Measurement of differential cross sections for ν μ -Ar charged-current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE detector
© 2020 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. We present an analysis of MicroBooNE data with a signature of one muon, no pions, and at least one proton above a momentum threshold of 300 MeV/c (CC0πNp). This is the first differential cross-section measurement of this topology in neutrin...
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| description | © 2020 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. We present an analysis of MicroBooNE data with a signature of one muon, no pions, and at least one proton above a momentum threshold of 300 MeV/c (CC0πNp). This is the first differential cross-section measurement of this topology in neutrino-argon interactions. We achieve a significantly lower proton momentum threshold than previous carbon and scintillator-based experiments. Using data collected from a total of approximately 1.6×1020 protons on target, we measure the muon neutrino cross section for the CC0πNp interaction channel in argon at MicroBooNE in the Booster Neutrino Beam which has a mean energy of around 800 MeV. We present the results from a data sample with estimated efficiency of 29% and purity of 76% as differential cross sections in five reconstructed variables: the muon momentum and polar angle, the leading proton momentum and polar angle, and the muon-proton opening angle. We include smearing matrices that can be used to "forward fold"theoretical predictions for comparison with these data. We compare the measured differential cross sections to a number of recent theory predictions demonstrating largely good agreement with this first-ever dataset on argon. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1416472023-04-14T18:56:50Z Measurement of differential cross sections for ν μ -Ar charged-current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE detector Conrad, Janet Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics © 2020 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. We present an analysis of MicroBooNE data with a signature of one muon, no pions, and at least one proton above a momentum threshold of 300 MeV/c (CC0πNp). This is the first differential cross-section measurement of this topology in neutrino-argon interactions. We achieve a significantly lower proton momentum threshold than previous carbon and scintillator-based experiments. Using data collected from a total of approximately 1.6×1020 protons on target, we measure the muon neutrino cross section for the CC0πNp interaction channel in argon at MicroBooNE in the Booster Neutrino Beam which has a mean energy of around 800 MeV. We present the results from a data sample with estimated efficiency of 29% and purity of 76% as differential cross sections in five reconstructed variables: the muon momentum and polar angle, the leading proton momentum and polar angle, and the muon-proton opening angle. We include smearing matrices that can be used to "forward fold"theoretical predictions for comparison with these data. We compare the measured differential cross sections to a number of recent theory predictions demonstrating largely good agreement with this first-ever dataset on argon. 2022-04-04T16:36:29Z 2022-04-04T16:36:29Z 2020 2022-04-04T16:29:14Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/141647 Conrad, Janet. 2020. "Measurement of differential cross sections for ν μ -Ar charged-current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE detector." Physical Review D, 102 (11). en 10.1103/PHYSREVD.102.112013 Physical Review D Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf American Physical Society (APS) APS |
| spellingShingle | Conrad, Janet Measurement of differential cross sections for ν μ -Ar charged-current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE detector |
| title | Measurement of differential cross sections for ν μ -Ar charged-current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE detector |
| title_full | Measurement of differential cross sections for ν μ -Ar charged-current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE detector |
| title_fullStr | Measurement of differential cross sections for ν μ -Ar charged-current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE detector |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measurement of differential cross sections for ν μ -Ar charged-current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE detector |
| title_short | Measurement of differential cross sections for ν μ -Ar charged-current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the MicroBooNE detector |
| title_sort | measurement of differential cross sections for ν μ ar charged current interactions with protons and no pions in the final state with the microboone detector |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/141647 |
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