NuIntBibby César Jesús Valls
Neutrino interaction measurements, in one place.

MINERvA · 2016

Measurement of K+K^{+} production in charged-current νμ\nu_{\mu} interactions

Phys.Rev.D 94 012002 · 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.012002

arXiv:1604.03920JournalINSPIREAll papers

Measurements

CurrentFlavorTargetTopologyTypeObservablesEnergy
CCνμCHCC1K+single-diffdifferential cross section (K+ KE)K+ kinetic energy 0-500 MeV

Abstract

Production of K⁺ mesons in charged-current ν_μ interactions on plastic scintillator (CH) is measured using MINERvA exposed to the low-energy NuMI beam at Fermilab. Timing information is used to isolate a sample of 885 charged-current events containing a stopping K⁺ which decays at rest. The differential cross section in K⁺ kinetic energy, dσ/dT_K, is observed to be relatively flat between 0 and 500 MeV. Its shape is in good agreement with the prediction by the \textscgenie neutrino event generator when final-state interactions are included, however the data rate is lower than the prediction by 15\%.

Citation

@article{MINERvA:2016zyp,
    author = "Marshall, C. M. and others",
    collaboration = "MINERvA",
    title = "{Measurement of $K^{+}$ production in charged-current $\nu_{\mu}$ interactions}",
    eprint = "1604.03920",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "hep-ex",
    reportNumber = "FERMILAB-PUB-16-109-ND",
    doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.94.012002",
    journal = "Phys. Rev. D",
    volume = "94",
    number = "1",
    pages = "012002",
    year = "2016"
}