Measurement of double-differential muon neutrino charged-current interactions onC8H8without pions in the final state using the T2K off-axis beam

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Measurement of double-differential muon neutrino charged-current interactions onC8H8without pions in the final state using the T2K off-axis beam

M. Barbi Alyssa Garcia J. Marteau Vincenzo Berardi Xianguo Lu André Rubbia M. Ziembicki L. Southwell M. Pavin M. Hogan G. Vasseur Akitaka Ariga J. Myslik Ko Okumura S. Manly J. Zalipska J. Insler Per Jönsson Davide Sgalaberna T. Okusawa S. Y. Suzuki K. Iwamoto M. R. Vagins M. Mezzetto A. Clifton S. V. Cao Michal Dziewiecki Alexander Finch Shigeki Aoki L. Pickard S. Giffin C. Riccio Yusuke Suda K. E. Duffy Antonin Vacheret M. Yamamoto P. M. Hamilton S. Martynenko J. Lagoda J. Imber M. A. M. Rayner Xiao-yan Li V. Matveev R. J. Wilson Jan Kisiel M. Tzanov C. Nielsen Yuki Fujii N. Chikuma A. T. Suzuki A. P. Furmanski Susumu Takahashi H. Kakuno F. Di Lodovico L. Zambelli M. Tada M. Ravonel A. N. Khotjantsev Giovanni Fiorentini A. Knox J. F. Martin H.a. Tanaka S. R. Dennis S. R. Dennis A. Bravar K. Zaremba T. Kobayashi S. Di Luise L. Cremonesi S. Berkman M. Zito C. Touramanis M. Jiang Antonio Ereditato T. Sekiguchi J. Dumarchez J. Schwehr T. Feusels R. A. Intonti T. Tomura T. Dealtry D. Autiero T. Nakadaira A. Missert C. W. Walter N. Yershov T. Shirahige M. Buizza Avanzini D. Brailsford D. Brailsford R. Poutissou A. Himmel R. Tacik D. Fukuda S. King Yu. G. Kudenko N. C. Hastings M. M. Khabibullin M. Yu G. Christodoulou K. Nakamura Kenichi Yoshida M. Sorel A. Shaikhiev R. G. Calland K. Nishikawa P. Bartet-friburg Jan T. Sobczyk Atsushi Takeda J. M. Poutissou C. Bronner P. Rojas M. Lazos T. Hasegawa E. Rondio N. Mccauley C. M. Nantais L. Magaletti C. Giganti M. Mccarthy P. Stamoulis S. Moriyama Masayuki Nakahata Y. Uchida E. Radicioni W. R. Kropp W. Warzycha S. Tobayama L. L. Kormos K. Huang J. A. Nowak E. Iwai D. R. Hadley C. Pistillo S. B. Boyd A. Zalewska D. Payne T. Tsukamoto O. V. Mineev R. Shah K. Nakamura P. Przewlocki P. Lasorak Hiroyuki Sekiya T. Thakore K. Mavrokoridis Anatoly Kopylov Lester D.r. Thompson J. D. Perkin G. De Rosa R. A. Owen E. Reinherz-aronis F. Gizzarelli J. Caravaca Rodríguez E. Scantamburlo J. L. Palomino R.p. Kurjata K. S. Mcfarland S. Horikawa B. A. Popov Keigo Nakamura M. D. Haigh I. Lamont Y. Seiya T. Wachala F. Sanchez A. Minamino A. Redij J. Y. Kim Y. Fukuda Kendall Mahn T. Ishii Gareth J. Barker M. Miura F. Hosomi T. Maruyama T. Koga P. F. Denner Katsumi Kondo D. Shaw W. H. Toki T. Yuan J. H. Jo M. B. Smy Y. Petrov C. Wilkinson G.d. Barr A. Blondel J. ŻMuda J. Steinmann Z. J. Liptak K. Sakashita Y. Takeuchi A. Rychter J. P. Coleman J. P. Lopez S. A. Dytman T. Ishida S. M. Oser E. Kearns M. Malek S. Bolognesi F. Shaker M. Hartz H. K. Tanaka K. Wakamatsu M. G. Catanesi I. Karpikov D. Cherdack M. Posiadala-zezula D. Hansen M. Antonova R. Ohta S. Bordoni Masashi Yokoyama A. Hillairet S. L. Cartwright R. Castillo D. Kielczewska M. Batkiewicz K. Abe T. Kajita A. Dabrowska P. Martins Y. Nishimura K. Ieki D. Karlen R. Sacco C. Mcgrew Artur F. Izmaylov V. Paolone L. Koch Kate Scholberg A. Jacob R. J. Wilkes N. D. Patel A. Mefodiev Z. Vallari W. Y. Ma L. Pickering Y. Hayato H. J. Kim C. Andreopoulos C. Andreopoulos T. J. Irvine D. Terhorst Tsuyoshi Nakaya S. Short E. D. Zimmerman D. Dewhurst S. Dolan T. Lindner C. K. Jung C. Densham A. Konaka T. Ovsyannikova S. Murphy M. Ikeda Masato Shiozawa L. Ludovici Yoshihiro Suzuki Yusuke Koshio S. Mine S. Bhadra M. Hierholzer Stefan Schoppmann E. Larkin V. Palladino Todd D. Stewart M. J. Wilking A. C. Weber N. Grant D. L. Wark G. Collazuol Mark Scott P. N. Ratoff T. Kutter M. Friend Teppei Katori Seiko Hirota T. Kikawa M. Gonin M. Lawe T. Hara A. D. Marino W. Oryszczak B. Quilain Marco Laveder Takahiro Hiraki James R. Wilson F. Sato R. Terri Yuichi Oyama A. Korzenev S. Suvorov R. P. Litchfield B. Jamieson J. Holeczek K. Nakayoshi S. Assylbekov R. L. Helmer Koji Yamamoto Asher Kaboth Leïla Haegel T. Yano Yoshikazu Yamada O. Drapier A. Cervera M. Kabirnezhad V. Galymov T. Hayashino E. Mazzucato M. Nirkko C. Yanagisawa A. K. Ichikawa S. Roth J. Kameda E. S. Pinzon Guerra Th. A. Mueller P. Mijakowski A. Knight H. M. O'keeffe Kazuhiro Suzuki M. O. Wascko Steven C. Johnson S. Nakayama R. A. Wendell S. Yen S. Emery-schrenk A. Longhin

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Physics Particle physics Muon 010308 nuclear & particles physics Monte Carlo method 01 natural sciences 7. Clean energy Nuclear physics Cross section (physics)Pion Phase space 0103 physical sciences High Energy Physics::Experiment Muon neutrino Nuclear Experiment 010306 general physics Beam (structure)Charged current

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We report the measurement of muon neutrino charged-current interactions on carbon without pions in the final state at the T2K beam energy using 5.734×1020 protons on target. For the first time the measurement is reported as a flux-integrated, double-differential cross section in muon kinematic variables (cosθμ, pμ), without correcting for events where a pion is produced and then absorbed by final state interactions. Two analyses are performed with different selections, background evaluations and cross-section extraction methods to demonstrate the robustness of the results against biases due to model-dependent assumptions. The measurements compare favorably with recent models which include nucleon-nucleon correlations but, given the present precision, the measurement does not distinguish among the available models. The data also agree with Monte Carlo simulations which use effective parameters that are tuned to external data to describe the nuclear effects. The total cross section in the full phase space is σ=(0.417±0.047(syst)±0.005(stat))×10-38 cm2 nucleon-1 and the cross section integrated in the region of phase space with largest efficiency and best signal-over-background ratio (cosθμ>0.6 and pμ>200 MeV) is σ=(0.202±0.036(syst)±0.003(stat))×10-38 cm2 nucleon-1.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2016-06-21	Physical Review D

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.93.112012