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Differential cross section measurement of charged current νe interactions without final-state pions in MicroBooNE

P. Abratenko34, J. Anthony4, L. Arellano19, J. Asaadi33, A. Ashkenazi31, S. Balasubramanian11, B. Baller11, C. Barnes21, G. Barr24 et al. (The MicroBooNE Collaboration)

G. Barr24, J. Barrow20,31, V. Basque11, L. Bathe-Peters13, O. Benevides Rodrigues30, S. Berkman11, A. Bhanderi19, M. Bhattacharya11, M. Bishai2, A. Blake16, B. Bogart21, T. Bolton15, J. Y. Book13, L. Camilleri9, D. Caratelli3, I. Caro Terrazas8, F. Cavanna11, G. Cerati11, Y. Chen27, J. M. Conrad20, M. Convery27, L. Cooper-Troendle37, J. I. Crespo-Anadón5, M. Del Tutto11, S. R. Dennis4, P. Detje4, A. Devitt16, R. Diurba1,22, R. Dorrill14, K. Duffy24, S. Dytman25, B. Eberly29, A. Ereditato1, J. J. Evans19, R. Fine17, O. G. Finnerud19, W. Foreman14, B. T. Fleming37, N. Foppiani13, D. Franco37, A. P. Furmanski22, D. Garcia-Gamez12, S. Gardiner11, G. Ge9, S. Gollapinni32,17, O. Goodwin19, E. Gramellini11, P. Green19, H. Greenlee11, W. Gu2, R. Guenette19, P. Guzowski19, L. Hagaman37, O. Hen20, R. Hicks17, C. Hilgenberg22, G. A. Horton-Smith15, B. Irwin22, R. Itay27, C. James11, X. Ji2, L. Jiang35, J. H. Jo37, R. A. Johnson7, Y.-J. Jwa9, D. Kalra9, N. Kamp20, G. Karagiorgi9, W. Ketchum11, M. Kirby11, T. Kobilarcik11, I. Kreslo1, M. B. Leibovitch3, I. Lepetic26, J.-Y. Li10, K. Li37, Y. Li2, K. Lin26, B. R. Littlejohn14, W. C. Louis17, X. Luo3, K. Manivannan30, C. Mariani35, D. Marsden19, J. Marshall36, D. A. Martinez Caicedo28, K. Mason34, A. Mastbaum26, N. McConkey19, V. Meddage15, K. Miller6, J. Mills34, A. Mogan8, T. Mohayai11, M. Mooney8, A. F. Moor4, C. D. Moore11, L. Mora Lepin19, J. Mousseau21, S. Mulleriababu1, D. Naples25, A. Navrer-Agasson19, N. Nayak2, M. Nebot-Guinot10, D. A. Newmark17, J. Nowak16, M. Nunes30, N. Oza17, O. Palamara11, N. Pallat22, V. Paolone25, A. Papadopoulou20, V. Papavassiliou23, H. B. Parkinson10, S. F. Pate23, N. Patel16, Z. Pavlovic11, E. Piasetzky31, I. D. Ponce-Pinto37, S. Prince13, X. Qian2, J. L. Raaf11, V. Radeka2, M. Reggiani-Guzzo19, L. Ren23, L. Rochester27, J. Rodriguez Rondon28, M. Rosenberg34, M. Ross-Lonergan9,17, C. Rudolf von Rohr1, G. Scanavini37, D. W. Schmitz6, A. Schukraft11, W. Seligman9, M. H. Shaevitz9, R. Sharankova11, J. Shi4, A. Smith4, E. L. Snider11, M. Soderberg30, S. Söldner-Rembold19, J. Spitz21, M. Stancari11, J. St. John11, T. Strauss11, S. Sword-Fehlberg23, A. M. Szelc10, W. Tang32, N. Taniuchi4, K. Terao27, C. Thorpe16, D. Torbunov2, D. Totani3, M. Toups11, Y.-T. Tsai27, J. Tyler15, M. A. Uchida4, T. Usher27, B. Viren2, M. Weber1, H. Wei18, A. J. White37, Z. Williams33, S. Wolbers11, T. Wongjirad34, M. Wospakrik11, K. Wresilo4, N. Wright20, W. Wu11, E. Yandel3, T. Yang11, L. E. Yates11, H. W. Yu2, G. P. Zeller11, J. Zennamo11, and C. Zhang2 (The 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
  • 18Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
  • 19The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
  • 20Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 21University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
  • 22University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
  • 23New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
  • 24University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom
  • 25University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
  • 26Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
  • 27SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
  • 28South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
  • 29University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine 04104, USA
  • 30Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
  • 31Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
  • 32University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
  • 33University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA
  • 34Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
  • 35Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
  • 36University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
  • 37Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA

  • *microboone_info@fnal.gov
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Phys. Rev. D 106, L051102 – Published 9 September, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.L051102

Abstract

In this paper we present the first measurements of an exclusive electron neutrino cross section with the MicroBooNE experiment using data from the Booster neutrino beamline at Fermilab. These measurements are made for a selection of charged-current electron neutrinos without final-state pions. Differential cross sections are extracted in energy and angle with respect to the beam for the electron and the leading proton. The differential cross section as a function of proton energy is measured using events with protons both above and below the visibility threshold. This is done by including a separate selection of electron neutrino events without reconstructed proton candidates in addition to those with proton candidates. Results are compared to the predictions from several modern generators, and we find the data agrees well with these models. The data shows best agreement, as quantified by the p-value, with the generators that predict a lower overall cross section, such as GENIE v3 and NuWro.

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Phys. Rev. D 106, L051102– Published 9 September, 2022
  • Received 5 August 2022
  • Accepted 29 August 2022
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