T2K · 2014

Measurement of the Inclusive Electron Neutrino Charged Current Cross Section on Carbon with the T2K Near Detector

Phys.Rev.Lett. 113 241803 · 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.241803

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Measurements

Current	Flavor	Target	Topology	Type	Observables	Energy
CC	νe	CH	Inclusive	single-diff	differential cross sections	E~1GeV

Abstract

The T2K off-axis near detector, ND280, is used to make the first differential cross-section measurements of electron neutrino charged current interactions at energies ~1 GeV as a function of electron momentum, electron scattering angle and four-momentum transfer of the interaction. The total flux-averaged $\nu_e$ charged current cross-section on carbon is measured to be $1.11\pm0.09~(stat)\pm0.18~(syst)\times10^{-38} cm^2/nucleon$ . The differential and total cross-section measurements agree with the predictions of two leading neutrino interaction generators, NEUT and GENIE. The NEUT prediction is $1.23\times10^{-38} cm^2/nucleon$ and the GENIE prediction is $1.08\times10^{-38} cm^2/nucleon$ . The total $\nu_e$ charged current cross-section result is also in agreement with data from the Gargamelle experiment.

Citation

@article{T2K:2014lbi,
    author = "Abe, K. and others",
    collaboration = "T2K",
    title = "{Measurement of the Inclusive Electron Neutrino Charged Current Cross Section on Carbon with the T2K Near Detector}",
    eprint = "1407.7389",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "hep-ex",
    doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.241803",
    journal = "Phys. Rev. Lett.",
    volume = "113",
    number = "24",
    pages = "241803",
    year = "2014"
}