First Measurement of η Meson Production in Neutrino Interactions on Argon with MicroBooNE

P Abratenko¹, O Alterkait¹, D Andrade Aldana², J Anthony³, L Arellano⁴, J Asaadi⁵, A Ashkenazi⁶, S Balasubramanian⁷, B Baller⁷, G Barr⁸, J Barrow^{9

6}, V Basque⁷, O Benevides Rodrigues¹⁰, S Berkman⁷, A Bhanderi⁴, A Bhat¹¹, M Bhattacharya⁷, M Bishai¹², A Blake¹³, B Bogart¹⁴, T Bolton¹⁵, J Y Book¹⁶, L Camilleri¹⁷, Y Cao⁴, D Caratelli¹⁸, I Caro Terrazas¹⁹, F Cavanna⁷, G Cerati⁷, Y Chen²⁰, J M Conrad⁹, M Convery²⁰, L Cooper-Troendle¹¹, J I Crespo-Anadón²¹, M Del Tutto⁷, S R Dennis³, P Detje³, A Devitt¹³, R Diurba²², Z Djurcic²³, R Dorrill², K Duffy⁸, S Dytman²⁴, B Eberly²⁵, P Englezos²⁶, A Ereditato^{27

7}, J J Evans⁴, R Fine²⁸, O G Finnerud⁴, W Foreman², B T Fleming²⁷, N Foppiani¹⁶, D Franco²⁷, A P Furmanski²⁹, D Garcia-Gamez³⁰, S Gardiner⁷, G Ge¹⁷, S Gollapinni^{28

31}, O Goodwin⁴, E Gramellini⁷, P Green^{4

8}, H Greenlee⁷, W Gu¹², R Guenette⁴, P Guzowski⁴, L Hagaman²⁷, O Hen⁹, R Hicks²⁸, C Hilgenberg²⁹, G A Horton-Smith¹⁵, Z Imani¹, B Irwin²⁹, R Itay²⁰, C James⁷, X Ji¹², L Jiang³², J H Jo^{12

11}, R A Johnson³³, Y-J Jwa¹⁷, D Kalra¹⁷, N Kamp⁹, G Karagiorgi¹⁷, W Ketchum⁷, M Kirby⁷, T Kobilarcik⁷, I Kreslo²², M B Leibovitch¹⁸, I Lepetic²⁶, J-Y Li³⁴, K Li¹¹, Y Li¹², K Lin²⁶, B R Littlejohn², W C Louis²⁸, X Luo¹⁸, C Mariani³², D Marsden⁴, J Marshall³⁵, N Martinez¹⁵, D A Martinez Caicedo³⁶, K Mason¹, A Mastbaum²⁶, N McConkey^{4

37}, V Meddage¹⁵, K Miller²⁷, J Mills¹, A Mogan¹⁹, T Mohayai⁷, M Mooney¹⁹, A F Moor³, C D Moore⁷, L Mora Lepin⁴, S Mulleriababu²², D Naples²⁴, A Navrer-Agasson⁴, N Nayak¹², M Nebot-Guinot³⁴, J Nowak¹³, N Oza^{17

28}, O Palamara⁷, N Pallat²⁹, V Paolone²⁴, A Papadopoulou^{23

9}, V Papavassiliou³⁸, H B Parkinson³⁴, S F Pate³⁸, N Patel¹³, Z Pavlovic⁷, E Piasetzky⁶, I D Ponce-Pinto²⁷, I Pophale¹³, S Prince¹⁶, X Qian¹², J L Raaf⁷, V Radeka¹², A Rafique²³, M Reggiani-Guzzo⁴, L Ren³⁸, L Rochester²⁰, J Rodriguez Rondon³⁶, M Rosenberg¹, M Ross-Lonergan²⁸, C Rudolf von Rohr²², G Scanavini¹¹, D W Schmitz²⁷, A Schukraft⁷, W Seligman¹⁷, M H Shaevitz¹⁷, R Sharankova⁷, J Shi³, E L Snider⁷, M Soderberg¹⁰, S Söldner-Rembold⁴, J Spitz¹⁴, M Stancari⁷, J St John⁷, T Strauss⁷, S Sword-Fehlberg³⁸, A M Szelc³⁴, W Tang³¹, N Taniuchi³, K Terao²⁰, C Thorpe¹³, D Torbunov¹², D Totani¹⁸, M Toups⁷, Y-T Tsai²⁰, J Tyler¹⁵, M A Uchida³, T Usher²⁰, B Viren¹², M Weber²², H Wei³⁹, A J White²⁷, Z Williams⁵, S Wolbers⁷, T Wongjirad¹, M Wospakrik⁷, K Wresilo³, N Wright⁹, W Wu⁷, E Yandel¹⁸, T Yang⁷, L E Yates⁷, 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, Israel, 69978.
⁷ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁸ University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
⁹ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
¹⁰ Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
¹¹ Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
¹² Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York 11973, USA.
¹³ Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom.
¹⁴ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
¹⁵ Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
¹⁶ Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹⁷ Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
¹⁸ University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
¹⁹ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
²⁰ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
²¹ Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid E-28040, Spain.
²² Universität Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland.
²³ Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA.
²⁴ University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
²⁵ University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine 04104, USA.
²⁶ Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
²⁷ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, USA.
²⁸ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
²⁹ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
³⁰ Universidad de Granada, Granada E-18071, Spain.
³¹ University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
³² Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
³³ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
³⁴ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.
³⁵ University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
³⁶ South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
³⁷ University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
³⁸ New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.
³⁹ Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.

PMID: 38683006
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.151801

First Measurement of η Meson Production in Neutrino Interactions on Argon with MicroBooNE

P Abratenko et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2024.

. 2024 Apr 12;132(15):151801.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.151801.

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, Israel, 69978.
⁷ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁸ University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
⁹ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
¹⁰ Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
¹¹ Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
¹² Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York 11973, USA.
¹³ Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom.
¹⁴ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
¹⁵ Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
¹⁶ Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹⁷ Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
¹⁸ University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
¹⁹ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
²⁰ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
²¹ Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid E-28040, Spain.
²² Universität Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland.
²³ Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA.
²⁴ University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
²⁵ University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine 04104, USA.
²⁶ Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
²⁷ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, USA.
²⁸ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
²⁹ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
³⁰ Universidad de Granada, Granada E-18071, Spain.
³¹ University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
³² Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
³³ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
³⁴ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.
³⁵ University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
³⁶ South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
³⁷ University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
³⁸ New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.
³⁹ Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.

PMID: 38683006
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.151801

Abstract

We present a measurement of η production from neutrino interactions on argon with the MicroBooNE detector. The modeling of resonant neutrino interactions on argon is a critical aspect of the neutrino oscillation physics program being carried out by the DUNE and Short Baseline Neutrino programs. η production in neutrino interactions provides a powerful new probe of resonant interactions, complementary to pion channels, and is particularly suited to the study of higher-order resonances beyond the Δ(1232). We measure a flux-integrated cross section for neutrino-induced η production on argon of 3.22±0.84(stat)±0.86(syst) 10^{-41} cm^{2}/nucleon. By demonstrating the successful reconstruction of the two photons resulting from η production, this analysis enables a novel calibration technique for electromagnetic showers in GeV accelerator neutrino experiments.

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First Measurement of η Meson Production in Neutrino Interactions on Argon with MicroBooNE

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First Measurement of η Meson Production in Neutrino Interactions on Argon with MicroBooNE

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