T2K · 2013
Measurement of the inclusive charged current cross section on carbon in the near detector of the T2K experiment
Phys.Rev.D 87 92003 · 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.092003
Measurements
| Current | Flavor | Target | Topology | Type | Observables | Energy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CC | νμ | CH | Inclusive | double-diff | double-differential cross section | mean energy 0.85GeV |
Abstract
T2K has performed the first measurement of νμ inclusive charged current interactions on carbon at neutrino energies of ~1 GeV where the measurement is reported as a flux-averaged double differential cross section in muon momentum and angle. The flux is predicted by the beam Monte Carlo and external data, including the results from the NA61/SHINE experiment. The data used for this measurement were taken in 2010 and 2011, with a total of 10.8 x 10¹⁹ protons-on-target. The analysis is performed on 4485 inclusive charged current interaction candidates selected in the most upstream fine-grained scintillator detector of the near detector. The flux-averaged total cross section is <σ_CC>_φ =(6.91 +/- 0.13 (stat) +/- 0.84 (syst)) x10⁻³⁹ cm²/nucleon for a mean neutrino energy of 0.85 GeV.
Citation
@article{T2K:2013nor,
author = "Abe, K. and others",
collaboration = "T2K",
title = "{Measurement of the inclusive $ν_μ$ charged current cross section on carbon in the near detector of the T2K experiment}",
eprint = "1302.4908",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ex",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.87.092003",
journal = "Phys. Rev. D",
volume = "87",
number = "9",
pages = "092003",
year = "2013"
}