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First measurement of energy-dependent inclusive muon neutrino charged-current cross sections on argon with the MicroBooNE detector
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MicroBooNE Collaboration (Including:
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.151801
Abstract
We report a measurement of the energy-dependent total charged-current cross section σ(E_{ν}) for inclusive muon neutrinos scattering on argon, as well as measurements of flux-averaged differential cross sections as a function of muon energy and hadronic energy transfer (ν). Data corresponding to 5.3×10^{19} protons on target of exposure were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located in the Fermilab booster neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy of approximately 0.8 GeV. The mapping between the true neutrino energy E_{ν} and reconstructed neutrino energy E_{ν}^{rec} and between the energy transfer ν and reconstructed hadronic energy E_{had}^{rec} are validated by comparing the data and Monte Carlo (MC) predictions. In particular, the modeling of the missing hadronic energy and its associated uncertainties are verified by a new method that compares the E_{had}^{rec} distributions between data and a MC prediction after constraining the reconstructed muon kinematic distributions, energy, and polar angle to those of data. The success of this validation gives confidence that the missing energy in the MicroBooNE detector is well modeled and underpins first-time measurements of both the total cross section σ(E_{ν}) and the differential cross section dσ/dν on argon.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Neutrinos, Neutrino interactions, Muons -- Scattering, Liquid argon, Oscillations, Calorimetry, Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Flavor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Physical Review Letters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | American Physical Society | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0031-9007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 12 April 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 128 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number: | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Article Number: | 151801 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.151801 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 May 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 May 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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