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TY - JOUR
T1 - First measurement of the muon neutrino charged current quasielastic double differential cross section
AU - Aguilar-Arevalo, A.A.
AU - Nowak, Jaroslaw
AU - MiniBooNE Collaboration
N1 - © 2010 The American Physical Society
PY - 2010/5/28
Y1 - 2010/5/28
N2 - A high-statistics sample of charged-current muon neutrino scattering events collected with the MiniBooNE experiment is analyzed to extract the first measurement of the double differential cross section (d2σ/dTμdcosθμ) for charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) scattering on carbon. This result features minimal model dependence and provides the most complete information on this process to date. With the assumption of CCQE scattering, the absolute cross section as a function of neutrino energy (σ[Eν]) and the single differential cross section (dσ/dQ2) are extracted to facilitate comparison with previous measurements. These quantities may be used to characterize an effective axial-vector form factor of the nucleon and to improve the modeling of low-energy neutrino interactions on nuclear targets. The results are relevant for experiments searching for neutrino oscillations.
AB - A high-statistics sample of charged-current muon neutrino scattering events collected with the MiniBooNE experiment is analyzed to extract the first measurement of the double differential cross section (d2σ/dTμdcosθμ) for charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) scattering on carbon. This result features minimal model dependence and provides the most complete information on this process to date. With the assumption of CCQE scattering, the absolute cross section as a function of neutrino energy (σ[Eν]) and the single differential cross section (dσ/dQ2) are extracted to facilitate comparison with previous measurements. These quantities may be used to characterize an effective axial-vector form factor of the nucleon and to improve the modeling of low-energy neutrino interactions on nuclear targets. The results are relevant for experiments searching for neutrino oscillations.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.092005
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.092005
M3 - Journal article
VL - 81
JO - Physical Review D – Particles and Fields
JF - Physical Review D – Particles and Fields
SN - 1550-2368
IS - 9
M1 - 092005
ER -