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Measurements of the inclusive neutrino and antineutrino charged current cross sections in MINERvA using the low- ν flux method
- Source :
- Physical Review D. 94
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 2016.
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Abstract
- The total cross sections are important ingredients for the current and future neutrino oscillation experiments. We present measurements of the total charged-current neutrino and antineutrino cross sections on scintillator (CH) in the NuMI low-energy beamline using an {\em in situ} prediction of the shape of the flux as a function of neutrino energy from 2--50 GeV. This flux prediction takes advantage of the fact that neutrino and antineutrino interactions with low nuclear recoil energy ($\nu$) have a nearly constant cross section as a function of incident neutrino energy. This measurement is the lowest energy application of the low-$\nu$ flux technique, the first time it has been used in the NuMI antineutrino beam configuration, and demonstrates that the technique is applicable to future neutrino beams operating at multi-GeV energies. The cross section measurements presented are the most precise measurements to date below 5 GeV.<br />Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, and 12 supplemental tables of fluxes, cross sections, breakdowns of their uncertainties, and their covariance matrices
- Subjects :
- Physics
Particle physics
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Solar neutrino
Solar neutrino problem
7. Clean energy
01 natural sciences
NuMI
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear physics
Neutrino detector
0103 physical sciences
Measurements of neutrino speed
High Energy Physics::Experiment
Neutrino
Nuclear Experiment
010306 general physics
Neutrino oscillation
Charged current
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- ISSN :
- 24700029 and 24700010
- Volume :
- 94
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review D
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e2c5470ae521c62c131a8ba7a9be9d9e