Phys. Rev. D
83,
012005
(2011)
[21 pages]
Measurement of inclusive charged current interactions on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam
Y. Nakajima et al. (SciBooNE Collaboration)
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Y. Nakajima10, J. L. Alcaraz-Aunion1, S. J. Brice4, L. Bugel13, J. Catala-Perez18, G. Cheng3, J. M. Conrad13, Z. Djurcic3, U. Dore15, D. A. Finley4, A. J. Franke3, C. Giganti15,*, J. J. Gomez-Cadenas18, P. Guzowski6, A. Hanson7, Y. Hayato8, K. Hiraide10,8, G. Jover-Manas1, G. Karagiorgi13, T. Katori7,13, Y. K. Kobayashi17, T. Kobilarcik4, H. Kubo10, Y. Kurimoto10,5, W. C. Louis11, P. F. Loverre15, L. Ludovici15, K. B. M. Mahn3,†, C. Mariani3, S. Masuike17, K. Matsuoka10, V. T. McGary13, W. Metcalf12, G. B. Mills11, G. Mitsuka9,‡, Y. Miyachi17,§, S. Mizugashira17, C. D. Moore4, T. Nakaya10, R. Napora14, P. Nienaber16, D. Orme10, M. Otani10, A. D. Russell4, F. Sanchez1, M. H. Shaevitz3, T.-A. Shibata17, M. Sorel18, R. J. Stefanski4, H. Takei17,**, H.-K. Tanaka13,††, M. Tanaka5, R. Tayloe7, I. J. Taylor6,‡‡, R. J. Tesarek4, Y. Uchida6, R. Van de Water11, J. J. Walding6,a, M. O. Wascko6, H. B. White4, M. Yokoyama10,b, G. P. Zeller4, and E. D. Zimmerman2 (SciBooNE Collaboration)
1Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
2Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
3Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
4Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
5High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
6Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
7Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
8Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
9Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
10Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
11Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
12Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
13Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
14Department of Chemistry and Physics, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana 46323, USA
15Università di Roma Sapienza, Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, I-00185 Rome, Italy
16Physics Department, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Winona, Minnesota 55987, USA
17Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
18Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, Universidad de Valencia and CSIC, E-46071 Valencia, Spain
Received 9 November 2010; published 26 January 2011
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.
© 2011 American Physical Society
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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.012005
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.83.012005
*Present address: DSM/Irfu/SPP, CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. †Present address: TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 2A3, Canada. ‡Present address: Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan. §Present address: Department of Physics, Yamagata University, Yamagata, 990-8560 Japan. **Present address: Kitasato University, Tokyo, 108-8641 Japan. ††Present address: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA. ‡‡Present address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA. aPresent address: Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA. bPresent address: Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
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