Measurement of inclusive charged current interactions on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam
We report a measurement of inclusive charged current interactions of muon neutrinos on carbon with an average energy of 0.8 GeV using the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam. We compare our measurement with two neutrino interaction simulations: NEUT and NUANCE. The charged current interaction rates (prod...
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| author | Bugel, Leonard G. Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios Katori, Teppei McGary, R. Shane Conrad, Janet Marie Tanaka, H. |
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| description | We report a measurement of inclusive charged current interactions of muon neutrinos on carbon with an average energy of 0.8 GeV using the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam. We compare our measurement with two neutrino interaction simulations: NEUT and NUANCE. The charged current interaction rates (product of flux and cross section) are extracted by fitting the muon kinematics, with a precision of 6%–15% for the energy dependent and 3% for the energy integrated analyses. We also extract charged current inclusive interaction cross sections from the observed rates, with a precision of 10%–30% for the energy dependent and 8% for the energy integrated analyses. This is the first measurement of the charged current inclusive cross section on carbon around 1 GeV. These results can be used to convert previous SciBooNE cross-section ratio measurements to absolute cross-section values. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/630982023-02-26T05:59:05Z Measurement of inclusive charged current interactions on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam Bugel, Leonard G. Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios Katori, Teppei McGary, R. Shane Conrad, Janet Marie Tanaka, H. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Conrad, Janet Bugel, Leonard G. Conrad, Janet Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios Katori, Teppei McGary, R. Shane Tanaka, H. -K. We report a measurement of inclusive charged current interactions of muon neutrinos on carbon with an average energy of 0.8 GeV using the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam. We compare our measurement with two neutrino interaction simulations: NEUT and NUANCE. The charged current interaction rates (product of flux and cross section) are extracted by fitting the muon kinematics, with a precision of 6%–15% for the energy dependent and 3% for the energy integrated analyses. We also extract charged current inclusive interaction cross sections from the observed rates, with a precision of 10%–30% for the energy dependent and 8% for the energy integrated analyses. This is the first measurement of the charged current inclusive cross section on carbon around 1 GeV. These results can be used to convert previous SciBooNE cross-section ratio measurements to absolute cross-section values. United States. Dept. of Energy National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Japan-U.S. Cooperative Science Program) 2011-05-24T19:20:49Z 2011-05-24T19:20:49Z 2011-01 2010-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1550-7998 1550-2368 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63098 SciBooNE Collaboration et al. "Measurement of inclusive charged current interactions on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam." Physical Review D 83:1, 012005 (2011) © 2011 American Physical Society. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9429-9482 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6393-0438 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3837-3921 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.012005 Physical Review D Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Physical Society APS |
| spellingShingle | Bugel, Leonard G. Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios Katori, Teppei McGary, R. Shane Conrad, Janet Marie Tanaka, H. Measurement of inclusive charged current interactions on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam |
| title | Measurement of inclusive charged current interactions on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam |
| title_full | Measurement of inclusive charged current interactions on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam |
| title_fullStr | Measurement of inclusive charged current interactions on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measurement of inclusive charged current interactions on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam |
| title_short | Measurement of inclusive charged current interactions on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam |
| title_sort | measurement of inclusive charged current interactions on carbon in a few gev neutrino beam |
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