Measurement of the neutrino neutral-current elastic differential cross section on mineral oil atEν∼1 GeV

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Measurement of the neutrino neutral-current elastic differential cross section on mineral oil atEν∼1 GeV

B. Osmanov I. Kourbanis D. Perevalov D. Perevalov J. A. Green J. A. Green D. A. Finley J. L. Raaf R. A. Johnson G. Karagiorgi P. Nienaber W. C. Louis C. E. Anderson M. Tzanov F. G. Garcia Kendall Mahn E. D. Zimmerman M. Soderberg I. Stancu E. Hawker E. Hawker C. D. Moore G. P. Zeller W. Marsh H. A. Tanaka H. Ray C. Green C. Green Janet Conrad T. L. Hart F. Mills R. G. Van De Water M. H. Shaevitz Teppei Katori Teppei Katori Y. L. Liu J. Cao R. J. Stefanski V. T. Mcgary D. W. Schmitz L. Coney S. Koutsoliotas Rex Tayloe G. B. Mills J. A. Nowak R. B. Patterson D. H. White Z. Djurcic David Smith M. O. Wascko M. O. Wascko P. H. Kasper A. D. Russell B. C. Brown R. Schirato G. T. Garvey Alexis A. Aguilar-arevalo R. Ford L. Bugel T. Kobilarcik F. C. Shoemaker R. H. Nelson Z. Pavlovic C. C. Polly A. Curioni M. Sung J. Spitz M. Sorel M. Sorel B. T. Fleming D. C. Cox S. K. Linden E.j. Prebys G. Mcgregor S. Ouedraogo Panagiotis Spentzouris J. Grange A. O. Bazarko J. Mousseau E. M. Laird R. Dharmapalan R. Imlay Jocelyn Monroe W. Metcalf H. J. Yang S. J. Brice P. D. Meyers C. Mauger M. J. Wilking B. P. Roe V. D. Sandberg J. M. Link

subject

Physics Elastic scattering Nuclear and High Energy Physics Particle physics Nuclear Theory Form factor (quantum field theory)Nuclear physics Baryon MiniBooNE Neutrino Nuclear Experiment Nucleon Energy (signal processing)Lepton

description

We report a measurement of the flux-averaged neutral-current elastic differential cross section for neutrinos scattering on mineral oil (CH{sub 2}) as a function of four-momentum transferred squared, Q{sup 2}. It is obtained by measuring the kinematics of recoiling nucleons with kinetic energy greater than 50 MeV which are readily detected in MiniBooNE. This differential cross-section distribution is fit with fixed nucleon form factors apart from an axial mass M{sub A} that provides a best fit for M{sub A}=1.39{+-}0.11 GeV. Using the data from the charged-current neutrino interaction sample, a ratio of neutral-current to charged-current quasielastic cross sections as a function of Q{sup 2} has been measured. Additionally, single protons with kinetic energies above 350 MeV can be distinguished from neutrons and multiple nucleon events. Using this marker, the strange quark contribution to the neutral-current axial vector form factor at Q{sup 2}=0, {Delta}s, is found to be {Delta}s=0.08{+-}0.26.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2010-11-18	Physical Review D

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.82.092005