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First measurement of inclusive electron-neutrino and antineutrino charged current differential cross sections in charged lepton energy on argon in MicroBooNE

P. Abratenko33, R. An14, J. Anthony4, L. Arellano18, J. Asaadi32, A. Ashkenazi30, S. Balasubramanian11, B. Baller11, C. Barnes20 et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration*)

C. Barnes20, G. Barr23, V. Basque18, L. Bathe-Peters13, O. Benevides Rodrigues29, S. Berkman11, A. Bhanderi18, A. Bhat29, M. Bishai2, A. Blake16, T. Bolton15, J. Y. Book13, L. Camilleri9, D. Caratelli11, I. Caro Terrazas8, R. Castillo Fernandez11, F. Cavanna11, G. Cerati11, Y. Chen1, D. Cianci9, J. M. Conrad19, M. Convery26, L. Cooper-Troendle36, J. I. Crespo-Anadón5, M. Del Tutto11, S. R. Dennis4, P. Detje4, A. Devitt16, R. Diurba21, R. Dorrill14, K. Duffy11, S. Dytman24, B. Eberly28, A. Ereditato1, J. J. Evans18, R. Fine17, G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre27, R. S. Fitzpatrick20, B. T. Fleming36, N. Foppiani13, D. Franco36, A. P. Furmanski21, D. Garcia-Gamez12, S. Gardiner11, G. Ge9, S. Gollapinni31,17, O. Goodwin18, E. Gramellini11, P. Green18, H. Greenlee11, W. Gu2, R. Guenette13, P. Guzowski18, L. Hagaman36, O. Hen19, C. Hilgenberg21, G. A. Horton-Smith15, A. Hourlier19, R. Itay26, C. James11, X. Ji2, L. Jiang34, J. H. Jo36, R. A. Johnson7, Y.-J. Jwa9, D. Kalra9, N. Kamp19, N. Kaneshige3, G. Karagiorgi9, W. Ketchum11, M. Kirby11, T. Kobilarcik11, I. Kreslo1, R. LaZur8, I. Lepetic25, K. Li36, Y. Li2, K. Lin17, B. R. Littlejohn14, W. C. Louis17, X. Luo3, K. Manivannan29, C. Mariani34, D. Marsden18, J. Marshall35, D. A. Martinez Caicedo27, K. Mason33, A. Mastbaum25, N. McConkey18, V. Meddage15, T. Mettler1, K. Miller6, J. Mills33, K. Mistry18, A. Mogan31, T. Mohayai11, J. Moon19, M. Mooney8, A. F. Moor4, C. D. Moore11, L. Mora Lepin18, J. Mousseau20, M. Murphy34, D. Naples24, A. Navrer-Agasson18, M. Nebot-Guinot10, R. K. Neely15, D. A. Newmark17, J. Nowak16, M. Nunes29, O. Palamara11, V. Paolone24, A. Papadopoulou19, V. Papavassiliou22, S. F. Pate22, N. Patel16, A. Paudel15, Z. Pavlovic11, E. Piasetzky30, I. D. Ponce-Pinto36, S. Prince13, X. Qian2, J. L. Raaf11, V. Radeka2, A. Rafique15, M. Reggiani-Guzzo18, L. Ren22, L. C. J. Rice24, L. Rochester26, J. Rodriguez Rondon27, M. Rosenberg24, M. Ross-Lonergan9, G. Scanavini36, D. W. Schmitz6, A. Schukraft11, W. Seligman9, M. H. Shaevitz9, R. Sharankova33, J. Shi4, J. Sinclair1, A. Smith4, E. L. Snider11, M. Soderberg29, S. Söldner-Rembold18, P. Spentzouris11, J. Spitz20, M. Stancari11, J. St. John11, T. Strauss11, K. Sutton9, S. Sword-Fehlberg22, A. M. Szelc10, W. Tang31, K. Terao26, C. Thorpe16, D. Totani3, M. Toups11, Y.-T. Tsai26, M. A. Uchida4, T. Usher26, W. Van De Pontseele23,13, B. Viren2, M. Weber1, H. Wei2, Z. Williams32, S. Wolbers11, T. Wongjirad33, M. Wospakrik11, K. Wresilo4, N. Wright19, W. Wu11, E. Yandel3, T. Yang11, G. Yarbrough31, L. E. Yates19, H. W. Yu2, G. P. Zeller11, J. Zennamo11, and C. Zhang2 (MicroBooNE Collaboration*)

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

  • *microboone_info@fnal.gov
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Phys. Rev. D 105, L051102 – Published 14 March, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.L051102

Abstract

We present the first measurement of the single-differential νe+ν¯e charged-current inclusive cross sections on argon in electron or positron energy and in electron or positron scattering angle over the full range. Data were collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located off axis from the Fermilab neutrinos at the main injector beam over an exposure of 2.0×1020 protons on target. The signal definition includes a 60 MeV threshold on the νe or ν¯e energy and a 120 MeV threshold on the electron or positron energy. The measured total and differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the genie, nuwro, and gibuu neutrino generators.

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Phys. Rev. D 105, L051102– Published 14 March, 2022
  • Received 27 September 2021
  • Accepted 2 February 2022
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