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Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Dec 12;113(24):241803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.241803. Epub 2014 Dec 11.

Measurement of the inclusive electron neutrino charged current cross section on carbon with the T2K near detector.

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Affiliations

  1. Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka Observatory, Kamioka, Japan.
  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
  3. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan and Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  4. Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
  5. STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, and Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, United Kingdom.
  6. Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
  7. Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
  8. Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
  9. Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, IPN Lyon (IN2P3), Villeurbanne, France.
  10. Department of Physics, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  11. Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
  12. Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  13. H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow, Poland.
  14. Institute for Particle Physics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  15. Dipartimento Interuniversitario di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Bari and Università e Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy.
  16. Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan.
  17. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  18. Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  19. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
  20. Section de Physique, University of Geneva, DPNC, Geneva, Switzerland.
  21. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
  22. Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE), Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain.
  23. Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
  24. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan.
  25. Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  26. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
  27. IFIC (CSIC & University of Valencia), Valencia, Spain.
  28. Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
  29. Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Padova and Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.
  30. Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  31. School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
  32. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
  33. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  34. Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Napoli and Università di Napoli, Napoli, Italy.
  35. Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom and STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, and Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, United Kingdom.
  36. STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, and Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, United Kingdom and Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
  37. Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Palaiseau, France.
  38. Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), UPMC, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France.
  39. Institute of Radioelectronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
  40. IRFU, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
  41. Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
  42. High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
  43. Department of Physics, Miyagi University of Education, Sendai, Japan.
  44. Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland.
  45. Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
  46. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan and TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  47. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan and Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka Observatory, Kamioka, Japan.
  48. TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  49. Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
  50. Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
  51. Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Kashiwa, Japan.
  52. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.
  53. IFIC (CSIC & University of Valencia), Valencia, Spain and Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
  54. Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
  55. National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland.
  56. Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan.
  57. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  58. TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
  59. Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan.
  60. Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
  61. Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Centre for Particle Physics, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  62. RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut, Aachen, Germany.
  63. Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.
  64. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
  65. INFN Sezione di Roma and Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy.
  66. High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan.
  67. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan and Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
  68. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan and Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Kashiwa, Japan.
  69. Department of Physics, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan.
  70. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan.
  71. Department of Physics, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada and TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  72. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan and Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
  73. Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom and STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, and Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, United Kingdom.

PMID: 25541766 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.241803

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 ν(e) charged current cross section on carbon is measured to be ⟨σ⟩(ϕ)=1.11±0.10(stat)±0.18(syst)×10⁻³⁸ cm²/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 1.23×10⁻³⁸ cm²/nucleon and the GENIE prediction is 1.08×10⁻³⁸ cm²/nucleon. The total ν(e) charged current cross-section result is also in agreement with data from the Gargamelle experiment.

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