First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielasticlike ν_{μ}-Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector

P Abratenko¹, M Alrashed², R An³, J Anthony⁴, J Asaadi⁵, A Ashkenazi⁶, S Balasubramanian⁷, B Baller⁸, C Barnes⁹, G Barr¹⁰, V Basque¹¹, L Bathe-Peters¹², O Benevides Rodrigues¹³, S Berkman⁸, A Bhanderi¹¹, A Bhat¹³, M Bishai¹⁴, A Blake¹⁵, T Bolton², L Camilleri¹⁶, D Caratelli⁸, I Caro Terrazas¹⁷, R Castillo Fernandez⁸, F Cavanna⁸, G Cerati⁸, Y Chen¹⁸, E Church¹⁹, D Cianci¹⁶, E O Cohen²⁰, J M Conrad⁶, M Convery²¹, L Cooper-Troendle⁷, J I Crespo-Anadón¹⁶, M Del Tutto⁸, D Devitt¹⁵, R Diurba²², L Domine²¹, R Dorrill³, K Duffy⁸, S Dytman²³, B Eberly²⁴, A Ereditato¹⁸, L Escudero Sanchez⁴, J J Evans¹¹, G A Fiorentini Aguirre²⁵, R S Fitzpatrick⁹, B T Fleming⁷, N Foppiani¹², D Franco⁷, A P Furmanski²², D Garcia-Gamez²⁶, S Gardiner⁸, S Gollapinni^{27

28}, O Goodwin¹¹, E Gramellini⁸, P Green¹¹, H Greenlee⁸, L Gu²⁹, W Gu¹⁴, R Guenette¹², P Guzowski¹¹, E Hall⁶, P Hamilton¹³, O Hen⁶, G A Horton-Smith², A Hourlier⁶, E-C Huang²⁷, R Itay²¹, C James⁸, J Jan de Vries⁴, X Ji¹⁴, L Jiang²⁹, J H Jo⁷, R A Johnson³⁰, Y-J Jwa¹⁶, N Kamp⁶, G Karagiorgi¹⁶, W Ketchum⁸, B Kirby¹⁴, M Kirby⁸, T Kobilarcik⁸, I Kreslo¹⁸, R LaZur¹⁷, I Lepetic³, K Li⁷, Y Li¹⁴, B R Littlejohn³, D Lorca¹⁸, W C Louis²⁷, X Luo³¹, A Marchionni⁸, S Marcocci⁸, C Mariani²⁹, D Marsden¹¹, J Marshall³², J Martin-Albo¹², D A Martinez Caicedo²⁵, K Mason¹, A Mastbaum³³, N McConkey¹¹, V Meddage², T Mettler¹⁸, K Miller³⁴, J Mills¹, K Mistry¹¹, A Mogan²⁸, T Mohayai⁸, J Moon⁶, M Mooney¹⁷, A F Moor⁴, C D Moore⁸, J Mousseau⁹, M Murphy²⁹, D Naples²³, A Navrer-Agasson¹¹, R K Neely², P Nienaber³⁵, J Nowak¹⁵, O Palamara⁸, V Paolone²³, A Papadopoulou⁶, V Papavassiliou³⁶, S F Pate³⁶, A Paudel², Z Pavlovic⁸, E Piasetzky²⁰, I D Ponce-Pinto¹⁶, D Porzio¹¹, S Prince¹², X Qian¹⁴, J L Raaf⁸, V Radeka¹⁴, A Rafique², M Reggiani-Guzzo¹¹, L Ren³⁶, L Rochester²¹, J Rodriguez Rondon²⁵, H E Rogers³⁷, M Rosenberg²³, M Ross-Lonergan¹⁶, B Russell⁷, G Scanavini⁷, D W Schmitz³⁴, A Schukraft⁸, M H Shaevitz¹⁶, R Sharankova¹, J Sinclair¹⁸, A Smith⁴, E L Snider⁸, M Soderberg¹³, S Söldner-Rembold¹¹, S R Soleti^{12

10}, P Spentzouris⁸, J Spitz⁹, M Stancari⁸, J St John⁸, T Strauss⁸, K Sutton¹⁶, S Sword-Fehlberg³⁶, A M Szelc¹¹, N Tagg³⁸, W Tang²⁸, K Terao²¹, R T Thornton²⁷, C Thorpe¹⁵, M Toups⁸, Y-T Tsai²¹, S Tufanli⁷, M A Uchida⁴, T Usher²¹, W Van De Pontseele^{12

10}, R G Van de Water²⁷, B Viren¹⁴, M Weber¹⁸, H Wei¹⁴, Z Williams⁵, S Wolbers⁸, T Wongjirad¹, M Wospakrik⁸, W Wu⁸, T Yang⁸, G Yarbrough²⁸, L E Yates⁶, G P Zeller⁸, J Zennamo⁸, C Zhang¹⁴; MicroBooNE Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
² Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
³ Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
⁴ University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
⁵ University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁶ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
⁷ Department of Physics, Wright Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁸ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁹ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
¹⁰ University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
¹¹ The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
¹² Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹³ Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
¹⁴ Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York 11973, USA.
¹⁵ Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom.
¹⁶ Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
¹⁷ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
¹⁸ Universität Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland.
¹⁹ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
²⁰ Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978.
²¹ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
²² University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
²³ University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
²⁴ Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina 28035, USA.
²⁵ South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
²⁶ Universidad de Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain.
²⁷ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
²⁸ University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
²⁹ Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
³⁰ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
³¹ University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
³² University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
³³ Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
³⁴ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
³⁵ Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, Minnesota 55987, USA.
³⁶ New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.
³⁷ St. Catherine University, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105, USA.
³⁸ Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio 43081, USA.

PMID: 33258649
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.201803

First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielasticlike ν_{μ}-Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector

P Abratenko et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2020.

. 2020 Nov 13;125(20):201803.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.201803.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
² Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
³ Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
⁴ University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
⁵ University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁶ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
⁷ Department of Physics, Wright Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
⁸ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁹ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
¹⁰ University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
¹¹ The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
¹² Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹³ Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
¹⁴ Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York 11973, USA.
¹⁵ Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom.
¹⁶ Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
¹⁷ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
¹⁸ Universität Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland.
¹⁹ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
²⁰ Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978.
²¹ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
²² University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
²³ University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
²⁴ Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina 28035, USA.
²⁵ South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
²⁶ Universidad de Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain.
²⁷ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
²⁸ University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
²⁹ Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
³⁰ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
³¹ University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
³² University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
³³ Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
³⁴ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
³⁵ Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, Minnesota 55987, USA.
³⁶ New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.
³⁷ St. Catherine University, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105, USA.
³⁸ Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio 43081, USA.

PMID: 33258649
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.201803

Abstract

We report on the first measurement of flux-integrated single differential cross sections for charged-current (CC) muon neutrino (ν_{μ}) scattering on argon with a muon and a proton in the final state, ^{40}Ar (ν_{μ},μp)X. The measurement was carried out using the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber detector with an exposure of 4.59×10^{19} protons on target. Events are selected to enhance the contribution of CC quasielastic (CCQE) interactions. The data are reported in terms of a total cross section as well as single differential cross sections in final state muon and proton kinematics. We measure the integrated per-nucleus CCQE-like cross section (i.e., for interactions leading to a muon, one proton, and no pions above detection threshold) of (4.93±0.76_{stat}±1.29_{sys})×10^{-38} cm^{2}, in good agreement with theoretical calculations. The single differential cross sections are also in overall good agreement with theoretical predictions, except at very forward muon scattering angles that correspond to low-momentum-transfer events.

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First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielasticlike ν_{μ}-Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector

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First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielasticlike ν_{μ}-Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector

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