Measurement of the antineutrino to neutrino charged-current interaction cross section ratio in MINERvA

We present measurements of the neutrino and antineutrino total charged-current cross sections on carbon and their ratio using the MINERvA scintillator-tracker. The measurements span the energy range 2–22 GeV and were performed using forward and reversed horn focusing modes of the Fermilab low-energy...

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Autores: Ren L., Aliaga L., Altinok O., Bellantoni L., Bercellie A., Betancourt M., Bodek A., Bravar A., Budd H., Cai T., Carneiro M.F., Da Motta H., Devan J., Dytman S.A., Díaz G.A., Eberly B., Endress E., Felix J., Fields L., Fine R., Gago A.M., Galindo R., Gallagher H., Ghosh A., Golan T., Gran R., Han J.Y., Harris D.A., Hurtado K., Kiveni M., Kleykamp J., Kordosky M., Le T., Maher E., Manly S., Mann W.A., Marshall C.M., Martinez Caicedo D.A., McFarland K.S., McGivern C.L., McGowan A.M., Messerly B., Miller J., Mislivec A., Morfín J.G., Mousseau J., Naples D., Nelson J.K., Norrick A., Nuruzzaman, Paolone V., Park J., Patrick C.E., Perdue G.N., Ramírez M.A., Ransome R.D., Ray H., Rimal D., Rodrigues P.A., Ruterbories D., Schellman H., Solano Salinas C.J., Sultana M., Sánchez Falero S., Valencia E., Walton T., Wolcott J., Wospakrik M., Yaeggy B.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Perú
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación
Repositorio:CONCYTEC-Institucional
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.concytec.gob.pe:20.500.12390/884
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/884
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.072009
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Charged-current cross sections
Antineutrino-neutrino cross section ratio (RCC)
MINERvA experiment
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Sumario:We present measurements of the neutrino and antineutrino total charged-current cross sections on carbon and their ratio using the MINERvA scintillator-tracker. The measurements span the energy range 2–22 GeV and were performed using forward and reversed horn focusing modes of the Fermilab low-energy NuMI beam to obtain large neutrino and antineutrino samples. The flux is obtained using a subsample of charged-current events at low hadronic energy transfer along with precise higher energy external neutrino cross section data overlapping with our energy range between 12–22 GeV.We also report onthe antineutrino-neutrino cross section ratio, RCC, which does not rely on external normalization information. Our ratio measurement, obtained within the same experiment using the same technique, benefits from the cancellation of common sample systematic uncertainties and reaches a precision of ∼5% at low energy. Our results for the antineutrinonucleus scattering cross section and for RCC are the most precise to date in the energy range Eν < 6 GeV.

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