MINERvA · 2024

Measurement of electron neutrino and antineutrino cross sections at low momentum transfer

Phys.Rev.D 109 92008 · 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.092008

arXiv:2312.16631 Journal INSPIRE All papers

Measurements

Current	Flavor	Target	Topology	Type	Observables	Energy
CC	νe, ν̄e	CH	Inclusive	double-diff	double differential cross sections (Eavail, pT or q3)	—

Abstract

Accelerator based neutrino oscillation experiments seek to measure the relative number of electron and muon neutrinos and antineutrinos at different $L/E$ values. However high statistics studies of neutrino interactions are almost exclusively measured using muon neutrinos and antineutrinos since the dominant flavor of neutrinos produced by accelerator based beams are of the muon type. This work reports new measurements of electron neutrino and antineutrino interactions in hydrocarbon, obtained by strongly suppressing backgrounds initiated by muon flavor neutrinos and antineutrinos. Double differential cross sections as a function of visible energy transfer, $E_\text{avail}$ , and transverse momentum transfer, $p_T$ , or three momentum transfer, $q_3$ are presented.

Citation

@article{MINERvA:2023ner,
    author = "Henry, S. and others",
    collaboration = "MINERvA",
    title = "{Measurement of electron neutrino and antineutrino cross sections at low momentum transfer}",
    eprint = "2312.16631",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "hep-ex",
    reportNumber = "FERMILAB-PUB-23-0830-PPD",
    doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.109.092008",
    journal = "Phys. Rev. D",
    volume = "109",
    number = "9",
    pages = "092008",
    year = "2024"
}