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Measurement of single- and double-differential cross sections for mesonless charged-current muon neutrino interactions on argon with final-state protons using the MicroBooNE detector

P. Abratenko ³⁸, O. Alterkait³⁸, D. Andrade Aldana ¹⁵, L. Arellano ²¹, J. Asaadi ³⁷, A. Ashkenazi ³⁵, S. Balasubramanian¹², B. Baller ¹², G. Barr ²⁸ et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration^*)

G. Barr ²⁸, D. Barrow ²⁸, J. Barrow ²⁵, V. Basque ¹², L. Bathe-Peters ¹⁴, O. Benevides Rodrigues ¹⁵, S. Berkman ^12,24, A. Bhanderi²¹, A. Bhat ⁷, M. Bhattacharya ¹², M. Bishai ³, A. Blake ¹⁸, B. Bogart ²³, T. Bolton ¹⁷, J. Y. Book ¹⁴, M. B. Brunetti ⁴¹, L. Camilleri ¹⁰, Y. Cao²¹, D. Caratelli ⁴, F. Cavanna ¹², G. Cerati ¹², A. Chappell ⁴¹, Y. Chen ³¹, J. M. Conrad ²², M. Convery ³¹, L. Cooper-Troendle ²⁹, J. I. Crespo-Anadón⁶, R. Cross ⁴¹, M. Del Tutto ¹², S. R. Dennis ⁵, P. Detje ⁵, A. Devitt¹⁸, R. Diurba ², Z. Djurcic ¹, R. Dorrill¹⁵, K. Duffy ²⁸, S. Dytman ²⁹, B. Eberly ³³, P. Englezos ³⁰, A. Ereditato ^7,12, J. J. Evans ²¹, R. Fine¹⁹, W. Foreman ¹⁵, B. T. Fleming ⁷, D. Franco ⁷, A. P. Furmanski ²⁵, F. Gao ⁴, D. Garcia-Gamez ¹³, S. Gardiner ¹², G. Ge ¹⁰, S. Gollapinni ¹⁹, E. Gramellini ²¹, P. Green ²⁸, H. Greenlee ¹², L. Gu¹⁸, W. Gu ³, R. Guenette ²¹, P. Guzowski ²¹, L. Hagaman ⁷, O. Hen ²², C. Hilgenberg ²⁵, G. A. Horton-Smith ¹⁷, Z. Imani³⁸, B. Irwin²⁵, M. S. Ismail ²⁹, C. James ¹², X. Ji ²⁶, J. H. Jo ³, R. A. Johnson ⁸, Y.-J. Jwa¹⁰, D. Kalra ¹⁰, N. Kamp²², G. Karagiorgi ¹⁰, W. Ketchum ¹², M. Kirby ^3,12, T. Kobilarcik ¹², I. Kreslo², N. Lane ²¹, I. Lepetic³⁰, J.-Y. Li ¹¹, Y. Li ³, K. Lin ³⁰, B. R. Littlejohn ¹⁵, H. Liu³, W. C. Louis ¹⁹, X. Luo ⁴, C. Mariani ⁴⁰, D. Marsden²¹, J. Marshall ⁴¹, N. Martinez¹⁷, D. A. Martinez Caicedo ³², S. Martynenko ³, A. Mastbaum ³⁰, I. Mawby ¹⁸, N. McConkey ³⁹, V. Meddage¹⁷, J. Mendez²⁰, J. Micallef ^22,38, K. Miller⁷, A. Mogan ⁹, T. Mohayai ^12,16, M. Mooney ⁹, A. F. Moor ⁵, C. D. Moore¹², L. Mora Lepin ²¹, M. M. Moudgalya ²¹, S. Mulleriababu ², D. Naples ²⁹, A. Navrer-Agasson ²¹, N. Nayak ³, M. Nebot-Guinot ¹¹, J. Nowak ¹⁸, N. Oza¹⁰, O. Palamara ¹², N. Pallat ²⁵, V. Paolone ²⁹, A. Papadopoulou ¹, V. Papavassiliou ²⁷, H. B. Parkinson ¹¹, S. F. Pate ²⁷, N. Patel ¹⁸, Z. Pavlovic ¹², E. Piasetzky ³⁵, K. Pletcher ²⁴, I. Pophale ¹⁸, X. Qian ³, J. L. Raaf ¹², V. Radeka³, A. Rafique ¹, M. Reggiani-Guzzo ^11,21, L. Ren²⁷, L. Rochester³¹, J. Rodriguez Rondon ³², M. Rosenberg ³⁸, M. Ross-Lonergan ¹⁹, I. Safa ¹⁰, G. Scanavini⁴², D. W. Schmitz ⁷, A. Schukraft ¹², W. Seligman ¹⁰, M. H. Shaevitz ¹⁰, R. Sharankova ¹², J. Shi ⁵, E. L. Snider ¹², M. Soderberg ³⁴, S. Söldner-Rembold²¹, J. Spitz ²³, M. Stancari ¹², J. St. John ¹², T. Strauss ¹², A. M. Szelc ¹¹, W. Tang³⁶, N. Taniuchi⁵, K. Terao ³¹, C. Thorpe ²¹, D. Torbunov ³, D. Totani ⁴, M. Toups ¹², A. Trettin ²¹, Y.-T. Tsai ³¹, J. Tyler ¹⁷, M. A. Uchida ⁵, T. Usher ³¹, B. Viren ³, M. Weber ², H. Wei ²⁰, A. J. White⁷, S. Wolbers ¹², T. Wongjirad ³⁸, M. Wospakrik¹², K. Wresilo ⁵, W. Wu ²⁹, E. Yandel ⁴, T. Yang ¹², L. E. Yates ¹², H. W. Yu ³, G. P. Zeller ¹², J. Zennamo ¹², and C. Zhang ³ (MicroBooNE Collaboration^*)

¹Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
²Universität Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland
³Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York 11973, USA
⁴University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
⁵University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
⁶Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid E-28040, Spain
⁷University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
⁸University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA
⁹Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
¹⁰Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
¹¹University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
¹²Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
¹³Universidad de Granada, Granada E-18071, Spain
¹⁴Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
¹⁵Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA
¹⁶Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
¹⁷Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
¹⁸Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
¹⁹Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
²⁰Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
²¹The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
²²Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
²³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
²⁴Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
²⁵University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
²⁶Nankai University, Nankai District, Tianjin 300071, China
²⁷New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003, USA
²⁸University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom
²⁹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
³⁰Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
³¹SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
³²South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
³³University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine 04104, USA
³⁴Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
³⁵Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 69978
³⁶University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennesee 37996, USA
³⁷University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA
³⁸Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
³⁹University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
⁴⁰Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
⁴¹University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
⁴²Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA

^*Contact author: microboone_info@fnal.gov

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Phys. Rev. D 112, 112004 – Published 4 December, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/8v2y-l89l

Abstract

Charged-current neutrino interactions with final states containing zero mesons and at least one proton are of high interest for current and future accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments. Using the Booster Neutrino Beam and the MicroBooNE detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, we have obtained the first double-differential cross-section measurements of this channel for muon neutrino scattering on an argon target with a leading proton momentum threshold of $0.25 GeV / c$ . We also report a flux-averaged total cross section of $σ = (11.8 \pm 1.2) \times 10^{- 38} {cm}^{2} / Ar$ and several single-differential measurements which extend and improve upon previous results. Statistical and systematic uncertainties are quantified with a full treatment of correlations across 359 kinematic bins, including correlations between distributions describing different observables. The resulting dataset provides the most detailed information obtained to date for testing models of mesonless neutrino-argon scattering.

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Phys. Rev. D 112, 112004– Published 4 December, 2025

Vol. 112, Iss. 11 — 1 December 2025

Received 25 April 2024
Accepted 23 September 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/8v2y-l89l

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