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Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Nov 13;125(20):201803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.201803.

First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielasticlike ν_{μ}-Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector.

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P Abratenko, M Alrashed, R An, J Anthony, J Asaadi, A Ashkenazi, S Balasubramanian, B Baller, C Barnes, G Barr, V Basque, L Bathe-Peters, O Benevides Rodrigues, S Berkman, A Bhanderi, A Bhat, M Bishai, A Blake, T Bolton, L Camilleri, D Caratelli, I Caro Terrazas, R Castillo Fernandez, F Cavanna, G Cerati, Y Chen, E Church, D Cianci, E O Cohen, J M Conrad, M Convery, L Cooper-Troendle, J I Crespo-Anadón, M Del Tutto, D Devitt, R Diurba, L Domine, R Dorrill, K Duffy, S Dytman, B Eberly, A Ereditato, L Escudero Sanchez, J J Evans, G A Fiorentini Aguirre, R S Fitzpatrick, B T Fleming, N Foppiani, D Franco, A P Furmanski, D Garcia-Gamez, S Gardiner, S Gollapinni, O Goodwin, E Gramellini, P Green, H Greenlee, L Gu, W Gu, R Guenette, P Guzowski, E Hall, P Hamilton, O Hen, G A Horton-Smith, A Hourlier, E-C Huang, R Itay, C James, J Jan de Vries, X Ji, L Jiang, J H Jo, R A Johnson, Y-J Jwa, N Kamp, G Karagiorgi, W Ketchum, B Kirby, M Kirby, T Kobilarcik, I Kreslo, R LaZur, I Lepetic, K Li, Y Li, B R Littlejohn, D Lorca, W C Louis, X Luo, A Marchionni, S Marcocci, C Mariani, D Marsden, J Marshall, J Martin-Albo, D A Martinez Caicedo, K Mason, A Mastbaum, N McConkey, V Meddage, T Mettler, K Miller, J Mills, K Mistry, A Mogan, T Mohayai, J Moon, M Mooney, A F Moor, C D Moore, J Mousseau, M Murphy, D Naples, A Navrer-Agasson, R K Neely, P Nienaber, J Nowak, O Palamara, V Paolone, A Papadopoulou, V Papavassiliou, S F Pate, A Paudel, Z Pavlovic, E Piasetzky, I D Ponce-Pinto, D Porzio, S Prince, X Qian, J L Raaf, V Radeka, A Rafique, M Reggiani-Guzzo, L Ren, L Rochester, J Rodriguez Rondon, H E Rogers, M Rosenberg, M Ross-Lonergan, B Russell, G Scanavini, D W Schmitz, A Schukraft, M H Shaevitz, R Sharankova, J Sinclair, A Smith, E L Snider, M Soderberg, S Söldner-Rembold, S R Soleti, P Spentzouris, J Spitz, M Stancari, J St John, T Strauss, K Sutton, S Sword-Fehlberg, A M Szelc, N Tagg, W Tang, K Terao, R T Thornton, C Thorpe, M Toups, Y-T Tsai, S Tufanli, M A Uchida, T Usher, W Van De Pontseele, R G Van de Water, B Viren, M Weber, H Wei, Z Williams, S Wolbers, T Wongjirad, M Wospakrik, W Wu, T Yang, G Yarbrough, L E Yates, G P Zeller, J Zennamo, C Zhang,

Affiliations

  1. Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
  2. Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
  3. Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
  4. University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
  5. University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
  7. Department of Physics, Wright Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
  8. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
  9. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
  10. University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom.
  11. The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
  12. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
  13. Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
  14. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York 11973, USA.
  15. Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom.
  16. Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
  17. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
  18. Universität Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland.
  19. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
  20. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978.
  21. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
  22. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
  23. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
  24. Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina 28035, USA.
  25. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
  26. Universidad de Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain.
  27. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
  28. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
  29. Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
  30. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
  31. University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
  32. University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
  33. Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
  34. University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
  35. Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, Minnesota 55987, USA.
  36. New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA.
  37. St. Catherine University, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105, USA.
  38. Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio 43081, USA.

PMID: 33258649 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.201803

Abstract

We report on the first measurement of flux-integrated single differential cross sections for charged-current (CC) muon neutrino (ν_{μ}) scattering on argon with a muon and a proton in the final state, ^{40}Ar (ν_{μ},μp)X. The measurement was carried out using the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber detector with an exposure of 4.59×10^{19} protons on target. Events are selected to enhance the contribution of CC quasielastic (CCQE) interactions. The data are reported in terms of a total cross section as well as single differential cross sections in final state muon and proton kinematics. We measure the integrated per-nucleus CCQE-like cross section (i.e., for interactions leading to a muon, one proton, and no pions above detection threshold) of (4.93±0.76_{stat}±1.29_{sys})×10^{-38}  cm^{2}, in good agreement with theoretical calculations. The single differential cross sections are also in overall good agreement with theoretical predictions, except at very forward muon scattering angles that correspond to low-momentum-transfer events.

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