1. Measurement of inclusive charged current interactions on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam
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SciBooNE Collaboration, Nakajima, Y., Alcaraz-Aunion, J. L., Brice, S. J., Bugel, L., Catala-Perez, J., Cheng, G., Conrad, J. M., Djurcic, Z., Dore, U., Finley, D. A., Franke, A. J., Giganti, C., Gomez-Cadenas, J. J., Guzowski, P., Hanson, A., Hayato, Y., Hiraide, K., Jover-Manas, G., Karagiorgi, G., Katori, T., Kobayashi, Y. K., Kobilarcik, T., Kubo, H., Kurimoto, Y., Louis, W. C., Loverre, P. F., Ludovici, L., Mahn, K. B. M., Mariani, C., Masuike, S., Matsuoka, K., McGary, V. T., Metcalf, W., Mills, G. B., Mitsuka, G., Miyachi, Y., Mizugashira, S., Moore, C. D., Nakaya, T., Napora, R., Nienaber, P., Orme, D., Otani, M., Russell, A. D., Sanchez, F., Shaevitz, M. H., Shibata, T. -A., Sorel, M., Stefanski, R. J., Takei, H., Tanaka, H. -K., Tanaka, M., Tayloe, R., Taylor, I. J., Tesarek, R. J., Uchida, Y., Van de Water, R., Walding, J. J., Wascko, M. O., White, H. B., Yokoyama, M., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Muon ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Elementary particle ,Fermion ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Massless particle ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Fermilab ,Neutrino ,Charged current ,Lepton - Abstract
We report a measurement of inclusive charged current interactions of muon neutrinos on carbon with an average energy of 0.8 GeV using the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam. We compare our measurement with two neutrino interaction simulations: NEUT and NUANCE. The charged current interaction rates (product of flux and cross section) are extracted by fitting the muon kinematics, with a precision of 6%-15% for the energy dependent and 3% for the energy integrated analyses. We also extract charged current inclusive interaction cross sections from the observed rates, with a precision of 10%-30% for the energy dependent and 8% for the energy integrated analyses. This is the first measurement of the charged current inclusive cross section on carbon around 1 GeV. These results can be used to convert previous SciBooNE cross-section ratio measurements to absolute cross-section values., We acknowledge the Physics Department at Chonnam National University, Dongshin University, and Seoul National University for the loan of parts used in SciBar and the help in the assembly of SciBar. We wish to thank the Physics Departments at the University of Rochester and Kansas State University for the loan of Hamamatsu PMTs used in the MRD. We gratefully acknowledge support from Fermilab as well as various grants and contracts from the MEXT and JSPS (Japan), the INFN (Italy), the Ministry of Science and Innovation and CSIC (Spain), the STFC (UK), and the DOE and NSF (USA). This work was supported by MEXT and JSPS with the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research A 19204026, Young Scientists S 20674004, Young Scientists B 18740145, Scientific Research on Priority Areas "New Developments of Flavor Physics,'' and the global COE program "The Next Generation of Physics, Spun from Universality and Emergence.'' The project was supported by the Japan/U.S. Cooperation Program in the field of High Energy Physics and by JSPS and NSF under the Japan-U.S. Cooperative Science Program.
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- 2011
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