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TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of νμ and νe events in an off-axis horn-focused neutrino beam
AU - Adamson, P.
AU - Nowak, Jaroslaw
AU - MiniBooNE Collaboration
N1 - © 2009 The American Physical Society
PY - 2009/5/28
Y1 - 2009/5/28
N2 - We report the first observation of off-axis neutrino interactions in the MiniBooNE detector from the NuMI beam line at Fermilab. The MiniBooNE detector is located 745 m from the NuMI production target, at 110 mrad angle (6.3°) with respect to the NuMI beam axis. Samples of charged-current quasielastic νμ and νe interactions are analyzed and found to be in agreement with expectation. This provides a direct verification of the expected pion and kaon contributions to the neutrino flux and validates the modeling of the NuMI off-axis beam.
AB - We report the first observation of off-axis neutrino interactions in the MiniBooNE detector from the NuMI beam line at Fermilab. The MiniBooNE detector is located 745 m from the NuMI production target, at 110 mrad angle (6.3°) with respect to the NuMI beam axis. Samples of charged-current quasielastic νμ and νe interactions are analyzed and found to be in agreement with expectation. This provides a direct verification of the expected pion and kaon contributions to the neutrino flux and validates the modeling of the NuMI off-axis beam.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.211801
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.211801
M3 - Journal article
VL - 102
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 1079-7114
IS - 21
M1 - 211801
ER -