First Simultaneous Measurement of Differential Muon-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon for Final States with and without Protons Using MicroBooNE Data

P Abratenko¹, O Alterkait¹, D Andrade Aldana², L Arellano³, J Asaadi⁴, A Ashkenazi⁵, S Balasubramanian⁶, B Baller⁶, G Barr⁷, D Barrow⁷, J Barrow^{8

9

5}, V Basque⁶, O Benevides Rodrigues², S Berkman^{6

10}, A Bhanderi³, A Bhat¹¹, M Bhattacharya⁶, M Bishai¹², A Blake¹³, B Bogart¹⁴, T Bolton¹⁵, J Y Book¹⁶, M B Brunetti¹⁷, L Camilleri¹⁸, Y Cao³, D Caratelli¹⁹, F Cavanna⁶, G Cerati⁶, A Chappell¹⁷, Y Chen²⁰, J M Conrad⁸, M Convery²⁰, L Cooper-Troendle²¹, J I Crespo-Anadón²², R Cross¹⁷, M Del Tutto⁶, S R Dennis²³, P Detje²³, A Devitt¹³, R Diurba²⁴, Z Djurcic²⁵, R Dorrill², K Duffy⁷, S Dytman²¹, B Eberly²⁶, P Englezos²⁷, A Ereditato^{11

6}, J J Evans³, R Fine²⁸, O G Finnerud³, W Foreman², B T Fleming¹¹, D Franco¹¹, A P Furmanski⁹, F Gao¹⁹, D Garcia-Gamez²⁹, S Gardiner⁶, G Ge¹⁸, S Gollapinni²⁸, E Gramellini³, P Green⁷, H Greenlee⁶, L Gu¹³, W Gu¹², R Guenette³, P Guzowski³, L Hagaman¹¹, O Hen⁸, C Hilgenberg⁹, G A Horton-Smith¹⁵, Z Imani¹, B Irwin⁹, M S Ismail²¹, C James⁶, X Ji³⁰, J H Jo¹², R A Johnson³¹, Y-J Jwa¹⁸, D Kalra¹⁸, N Kamp⁸, G Karagiorgi¹⁸, W Ketchum⁶, M Kirby^{12

6}, T Kobilarcik⁶, I Kreslo²⁴, M B Leibovitch¹⁹, I Lepetic²⁷, J-Y Li³², K Li³³, Y Li¹², K Lin²⁷, B R Littlejohn², H Liu¹², W C Louis²⁸, X Luo¹⁹, C Mariani³⁴, D Marsden³, J Marshall¹⁷, N Martinez¹⁵, D A Martinez Caicedo³⁵, S Martynenko¹², A Mastbaum²⁷, I Mawby¹³, N McConkey³⁶, V Meddage¹⁵, J Micallef^{8

1}, K Miller¹¹, A Mogan³⁷, T Mohayai^{6

38}, M Mooney³⁷, A F Moor²³, C D Moore⁶, L Mora Lepin³, M M Moudgalya³, S Mulleriababu²⁴, D Naples²¹, A Navrer-Agasson³, N Nayak¹², M Nebot-Guinot³², J Nowak¹³, N Oza¹⁸, O Palamara⁶, N Pallat⁹, V Paolone²¹, A Papadopoulou²⁵, V Papavassiliou³⁹, H B Parkinson³², S F Pate³⁹, N Patel¹³, Z Pavlovic⁶, E Piasetzky⁵, I Pophale¹³, X Qian¹², J L Raaf⁶, V Radeka¹², A Rafique²⁵, M Reggiani-Guzzo^{32

3}, L Ren³⁹, L Rochester²⁰, J Rodriguez Rondon³⁵, M Rosenberg¹, M Ross-Lonergan²⁸, C Rudolf von Rohr²⁴, I Safa¹⁸, G Scanavini³³, D W Schmitz¹¹, A Schukraft⁶, W Seligman¹⁸, M H Shaevitz¹⁸, R Sharankova⁶, J Shi²³, E L Snider⁶, M Soderberg⁴⁰, S Söldner-Rembold³, J Spitz¹⁴, M Stancari⁶, J St John⁶, T Strauss⁶, A M Szelc³², W Tang⁴¹, N Taniuchi²³, K Terao²⁰, C Thorpe^{13

3}, D Torbunov¹², D Totani¹⁹, M Toups⁶, Y-T Tsai²⁰, J Tyler¹⁵, M A Uchida²³, T Usher²⁰, B Viren¹², M Weber²⁴, H Wei⁴², A J White¹¹, S Wolbers⁶, T Wongjirad¹, M Wospakrik⁶, K Wresilo²³, W Wu^{6

21}, E Yandel¹⁹, T Yang⁶, L E Yates⁶, H W Yu¹², G P Zeller⁶, J Zennamo⁶, C Zhang¹²; MicroBooNE Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
² Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
³ The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
⁴ University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁵ Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 69978.
⁶ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁷ University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
⁸ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
⁹ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
¹⁰ Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
¹¹ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
¹² Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York 11973, USA.
¹³ Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom.
¹⁴ <a href="https://ror.org/00jmfr291">University of Michigan</a>, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
¹⁵ Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
¹⁶ Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹⁷ University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
¹⁸ Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
¹⁹ University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
²⁰ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
²¹ University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
²² Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid E-28040, Spain.
²³ University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
²⁴ Universität Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland.
²⁵ Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA.
²⁶ University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine 04104, USA.
²⁷ Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
²⁸ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
²⁹ Universidad de Granada, Granada E-18071, Spain.
³⁰ Nankai University, Nankai District, Tianjin 300071, China.
³¹ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
³² University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.
³³ Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
³⁴ Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
³⁵ South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
³⁶ University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
³⁷ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
³⁸ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
³⁹ New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.
⁴⁰ Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
⁴¹ University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
⁴² Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.

PMID: 39121397
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.041801

First Simultaneous Measurement of Differential Muon-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon for Final States with and without Protons Using MicroBooNE Data

P Abratenko et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2024.

. 2024 Jul 26;133(4):041801.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.041801.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
² Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
³ The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
⁴ University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
⁵ Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 69978.
⁶ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁷ University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
⁸ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
⁹ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
¹⁰ Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
¹¹ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
¹² Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York 11973, USA.
¹³ Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom.
¹⁴ <a href="https://ror.org/00jmfr291">University of Michigan</a>, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
¹⁵ Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
¹⁶ Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
¹⁷ University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
¹⁸ Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
¹⁹ University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
²⁰ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
²¹ University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
²² Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid E-28040, Spain.
²³ University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
²⁴ Universität Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland.
²⁵ Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA.
²⁶ University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine 04104, USA.
²⁷ Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
²⁸ Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
²⁹ Universidad de Granada, Granada E-18071, Spain.
³⁰ Nankai University, Nankai District, Tianjin 300071, China.
³¹ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
³² University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.
³³ Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
³⁴ Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
³⁵ South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
³⁶ University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
³⁷ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
³⁸ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
³⁹ New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.
⁴⁰ Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
⁴¹ University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
⁴² Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.

PMID: 39121397
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.041801

Abstract

We report the first double-differential neutrino-argon cross section measurement made simultaneously for final states with and without protons for the inclusive muon neutrino charged-current interaction channel. The proton kinematics of this channel are further explored with a differential cross section measurement as a function of the leading proton's kinetic energy that extends across the detection threshold. These measurements use data collected with the MicroBooNE detector from 6.4×10^{20} protons on target from the Fermilab booster neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy of ∼0.8 GeV. Extensive data-driven model validation utilizing the conditional constraint formalism is employed. This motivates enlarging the uncertainties with an empirical reweighting approach to minimize the possibility of extracting biased cross section results. The extracted nominal flux-averaged cross sections are compared to widely used event generator predictions revealing severe mismodeling of final states without protons for muon neutrino charged-current interactions, possibly from insufficient treatment of final state interactions. These measurements provide a wealth of new information useful for improving event generators which will enhance the sensitivity of precision measurements in neutrino experiments.

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First Simultaneous Measurement of Differential Muon-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon for Final States with and without Protons Using MicroBooNE Data

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First Simultaneous Measurement of Differential Muon-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon for Final States with and without Protons Using MicroBooNE Data

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