First Measurement of Energy-Dependent Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector

P Abratenko¹, R An², J Anthony³, L Arellano⁴, J Asaadi⁵, A Ashkenazi⁶, S Balasubramanian⁷, B Baller⁷, C Barnes⁸, G Barr⁹, V Basque⁴, L Bathe-Peters¹⁰, O Benevides Rodrigues¹¹, S Berkman⁷, A Bhanderi⁴, A Bhat¹¹, M Bishai¹², A Blake¹³, T Bolton¹⁴, J Y Book¹⁰, L Camilleri¹⁵, D Caratelli⁷, I Caro Terrazas¹⁶, F Cavanna⁷, G Cerati⁷, Y Chen¹⁷, D Cianci¹⁵, J M Conrad¹⁸, M Convery¹⁹, L Cooper-Troendle²⁰, J I Crespo-Anadón²¹, M Del Tutto⁷, S R Dennis³, P Detje³, A Devitt¹³, R Diurba²², R Dorrill², K Duffy⁷, S Dytman²³, B Eberly²⁴, A Ereditato¹⁷, J J Evans⁴, R Fine²⁵, G A Fiorentini Aguirre²⁶, R S Fitzpatrick⁸, B T Fleming²⁰, N Foppiani¹⁰, D Franco²⁰, A P Furmanski²², D Garcia-Gamez²⁷, S Gardiner⁷, G Ge¹⁵, S Gollapinni^{25

28}, O Goodwin⁴, E Gramellini⁷, P Green⁴, H Greenlee⁷, W Gu¹², R Guenette¹⁰, P Guzowski⁴, L Hagaman²⁰, O Hen¹⁸, C Hilgenberg²², G A Horton-Smith¹⁴, A Hourlier¹⁸, R Itay¹⁹, C James⁷, X Ji¹², L Jiang²⁹, J H Jo²⁰, R A Johnson³⁰, Y-J Jwa¹⁵, D Kalra¹⁵, N Kamp¹⁸, N Kaneshige³¹, G Karagiorgi¹⁵, W Ketchum⁷, M Kirby⁷, T Kobilarcik⁷, I Kreslo¹⁷, I Lepetic³², K Li²⁰, Y Li¹², K Lin²⁵, B R Littlejohn², W C Louis²⁵, X Luo³¹, K Manivannan¹¹, C Mariani²⁹, D Marsden⁴, J Marshall³³, D A Martinez Caicedo²⁶, K Mason¹, A Mastbaum³², N McConkey⁴, V Meddage¹⁴, T Mettler¹⁷, K Miller³⁴, J Mills¹, K Mistry⁴, A Mogan²⁸, T Mohayai⁷, J Moon¹⁸, M Mooney¹⁶, A F Moor³, C D Moore⁷, L Mora Lepin⁴, J Mousseau⁸, M Murphy²⁹, D Naples²³, A Navrer-Agasson⁴, M Nebot-Guinot³⁵, R K Neely¹⁴, D A Newmark²⁵, J Nowak¹³, M Nunes¹¹, O Palamara⁷, V Paolone²³, A Papadopoulou¹⁸, V Papavassiliou³⁶, S F Pate³⁶, N Patel¹³, A Paudel¹⁴, Z Pavlovic⁷, E Piasetzky⁶, I D Ponce-Pinto²⁰, S Prince¹⁰, X Qian¹², J L Raaf⁷, V Radeka¹², A Rafique¹⁴, M Reggiani-Guzzo⁴, L Ren³⁶, L C J Rice²³, L Rochester¹⁹, J Rodriguez Rondon²⁶, M Rosenberg²³, M Ross-Lonergan¹⁵, G Scanavini²⁰, D W Schmitz³⁴, A Schukraft⁷, W Seligman¹⁵, M H Shaevitz¹⁵, R Sharankova¹, J Shi³, J Sinclair¹⁷, A Smith³, E L Snider⁷, M Soderberg¹¹, S Söldner-Rembold⁴, P Spentzouris⁷, J Spitz⁸, M Stancari⁷, J St John⁷, T Strauss⁷, K Sutton¹⁵, S Sword-Fehlberg³⁶, A M Szelc³⁵, W Tang²⁸, K Terao¹⁹, C Thorpe¹³, D Totani³¹, M Toups⁷, Y-T Tsai¹⁹, M A Uchida³, T Usher¹⁹, W Van De Pontseele^{10

9}, B Viren¹², M Weber¹⁷, H Wei¹², Z Williams⁵, S Wolbers⁷, T Wongjirad¹, M Wospakrik⁷, K Wresilo³, N Wright¹⁸, W Wu⁷, E Yandel³¹, T Yang⁷, G Yarbrough²⁸, L E Yates¹⁸, H W Yu¹², G P Zeller⁷, J Zennamo⁷, C Zhang¹²; MicroBooNE Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
² Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
³ University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
⁴ The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
⁵ University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁶ Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
⁷ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁸ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
⁹ University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹¹ Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
¹² Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York 11973, USA.
¹³ Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom.
¹⁴ Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
¹⁵ Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
¹⁶ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
¹⁷ Universität Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland.
¹⁸ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
¹⁹ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
²⁰ Department of Physics, Wright Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
²¹ Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid E-28040, Spain.
²² University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
²³ University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
²⁴ University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine 04104, USA.
²⁵ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
²⁶ South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
²⁷ Universidad de Granada, Granada E-18071, Spain.
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 Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
³³ University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
³⁴ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
³⁵ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.
³⁶ New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.

PMID: 35499871
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.151801

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First Measurement of Energy-Dependent Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector

P Abratenko et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2022.

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. 2022 Apr 15;128(15):151801.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.151801.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
² Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
³ University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
⁴ The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
⁵ University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁶ Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
⁷ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁸ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
⁹ University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹¹ Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
¹² Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York 11973, USA.
¹³ Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom.
¹⁴ Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
¹⁵ Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
¹⁶ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
¹⁷ Universität Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland.
¹⁸ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
¹⁹ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
²⁰ Department of Physics, Wright Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
²¹ Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid E-28040, Spain.
²² University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
²³ University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
²⁴ University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine 04104, USA.
²⁵ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
²⁶ South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
²⁷ Universidad de Granada, Granada E-18071, Spain.
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 Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
³³ University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
³⁴ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
³⁵ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.
³⁶ New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.

PMID: 35499871
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.151801

Abstract

We report a measurement of the energy-dependent total charged-current cross section σ(E_{ν}) for inclusive muon neutrinos scattering on argon, as well as measurements of flux-averaged differential cross sections as a function of muon energy and hadronic energy transfer (ν). Data corresponding to 5.3×10^{19} protons on target of exposure were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located in the Fermilab booster neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy of approximately 0.8 GeV. The mapping between the true neutrino energy E_{ν} and reconstructed neutrino energy E_{ν}^{rec} and between the energy transfer ν and reconstructed hadronic energy E_{had}^{rec} are validated by comparing the data and Monte Carlo (MC) predictions. In particular, the modeling of the missing hadronic energy and its associated uncertainties are verified by a new method that compares the E_{had}^{rec} distributions between data and a MC prediction after constraining the reconstructed muon kinematic distributions, energy, and polar angle to those of data. The success of this validation gives confidence that the missing energy in the MicroBooNE detector is well modeled and underpins first-time measurements of both the total cross section σ(E_{ν}) and the differential cross section dσ/dν on argon.

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First Measurement of Energy-Dependent Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector

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First Measurement of Energy-Dependent Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector

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