First combined measurement of the muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross section without pions in the final state at T2K

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.101.112001
• Publication Date: 2020-06-02T23:38:12Z
• Authors: K. Abe; N. Akhlaq; R. Akutsu; A. Ali; C. Alt; C. Andreopoulos; L. Anthony; M. Antonova; S. Aoki; A. Ariga; T. Arihara; Y. Asada; Y. Ashida; E. T. Atkin; Y. Awataguchi; S. Ban; M. Barbi; G. J. Barker; G. Barr; D. Barrow; C. Barry; M. Batkiewicz-Kwa...; A. Beloshapkin; F. Bench; V. Berardi; L. Berns; S. Bhadra; S. Bienstock; A. Blondel; S. Bolognesi; T. Bonus; B. Bourguille; S. B. Boyd; D. Brailsford; A. Bravar; D. Bravo Berguño; C. Bronner; S. Bron; A. Bubak; M. Buizza Avanzini; J. Calcutt; T. Campbell; S. Cao; S. L. Cartwright; M. G. Catanesi; A. Cervera; A. Chappell; C. Checchia; D. Cherdack; N. Chikuma; G. Christodoulou; M. Cicerchia; J. Coleman; G. Collazuol; L. Cook; D. Coplowe; A. Cudd; A. Dabrowska; G. De Rosa; T. Dealtry; P. F. Denner; S. R. Dennis; C. Densham; F. Di Lodovico; N. Dokania; S. Dolan; T. A. Doyle; O. Drapier; J. Dumarchez; P. Dunne; A. Eguchi; L. Eklund; S. Emery-Schrenk; A. Ereditato; P. Fernandez; T. Feusels; A. J. Finch; G. A. Fiorentini; G. Fiorillo; C. Francois; M. Friend; Y. Fujii; R. Fujita; D. Fukuda; R. Fukuda; Y. Fukuda; K. Fusshoeller; C. Giganti; T. Golan; M. Gonin; A. Gorin; M. Guigue; D. R. Hadley; J. T. Haigh; P. Hamacher-Baumann; M. Hartz; T. Hasegawa; S. Hassani; N. C. Hastings; T. Hayashino; Y. Hayato; A. Hiramoto; M. Hogan; J. Holeczek; N. T. Hong Van; T. Honjo; F. Iacob; A. K. Ichikawa; M. Ikeda; T. Ishida; T. Ishii; M. Ishitsuka; K. Iwamoto; A. Izmaylov; N. Izumi; M. Jakkapu; B. Jamieson; S. J. Jenkins; C. Jesús-Valls; M. Jiang; S. Johnson; P. Jonsson; C. K. Jung; X. Junjie; P. B. Jurj; M. Kabirnezhad; A. C. Kaboth; T. Kajita; H. Kakuno; J. Kameda; D. Karlen; S. P. Kasetti; Y. Kataoka; Y. Katayama; T. Katori; Y. Kato; E. Kearns; M. Khabibullin; A. Khotjantsev; T. Kikawa; H. Kikutani; H. Kim; S. King; J. Kisiel; A. Knight; A. Knox; T. Kobata; T. Kobayashi; L. Koch; T. Koga; A. Konaka; L. L. Kormos; Y. Koshio; A. Kostin; K. Kowalik; H. Kubo; Y. Kudenko; N. Kukita; S. Kuribayashi; R. Kurjata; T. Kutter; M. Kuze; L. Labarga; J. Lagoda; M. Lamoureux; D. Last; M. Laveder; M. Lawe; M. Licciardi; T. Lindner; R. P. Litchfield; S. L. Liu; X. Li; A. Longhin; L. Ludovici; X. Lu; T. Lux; L. N. Machado; L. Magaletti; K. Mahn; M. Malek; S. Manly; L. Maret; A. D. Marino; L. Marti-Magro; J. F. Martin; T. Maruyama; T. Matsubara; K. Matsushita; V. Matveev; C. Mauger; K. Mavrokoridis; E. Mazzucato; M. McCarthy; N. McCauley; J. McElwee; K. S. McFarland; C. McGrew; A. Mefodiev; C. Metelko; M. Mezzetto; A. Minamino; O. Mineev; S. Mine; M. Miura; L. Molina Bueno; S. Moriyama; J. Morrison; Th.A. Mueller; L. Munteanu; S. Murphy; Y. Nagai; T. Nakadaira; M. Nakahata; Y. Nakajima; A. Nakamura; K. G. Nakamura; K. Nakamura; S. Nakayama; T. Nakaya; K. Nakayoshi; C. Nantais; C. E. R. Naseby; T. V. Ngoc; K. Niewczas; K. Nishikawa; Y. Nishimura; T. S. Nonnenmacher; F. Nova; P. Novella; J. Nowak; J. C. Nugent; H. M. O’Keeffe; L. O’Sullivan; T. Odagawa; T. Ogawa; R. Okada; K. Okumura; T. Okusawa; S. M. Oser; R. A. Owen; Y. Oyama; V. Palladino; J. L. Palomino; V. Paolone; W. C. Parker; S. Parsa; J. Pasternak; P. Paudyal; M. Pavin; D. Payne; G. C. Penn; L. Pickering; C. Pidcott; G. Pintaudi; E. S. Pinzon Guerra; C. Pistillo; B. Popov; K. Porwit; M. Posiadala-Zezula; A. Pritchard; B. Quilain; T. Radermacher; E. Radicioni; B. Radics; P. N. Ratoff; E. Reinherz-Aronis; C. Riccio; E. Rondio; S. Roth; A. Rubbia; A. C. Ruggeri; C. Ruggles; A. Rychter; K. Sakashita; F. Sánchez; G. Santucci; C. M. Schloesser; K. Scholberg; J. Schwehr; M. Scott; Y. Seiya; T. Sekiguchi; H. Sekiya; D. Sgalaberna; R. Shah; A. Shaikhiev; F. Shaker; A. Shaykina; M. Shiozawa; W. Shorrock; A. Shvartsman; A. Smirnov; M. Smy; J. T. Sobczyk; H. Sobel; F. J. P. Soler; Y. Sonoda; J. Steinmann; S. Suvorov; A. Suzuki; S. Y. Suzuki; Y. Suzuki; A. A. Sztuc; M. Tada; M. Tajima; A. Takeda; Y. Takeuchi; H. K. Tanaka; H. A. Tanaka; S. Tanaka; Y. Tanihara; N. Teshima; L. F. Thompson; W. Toki; C. Touramanis; T. Towstego; K. M. Tsui; T. Tsukamoto; M. Tzanov; Y. Uchida; M. Vagins; S. Valder; Z. Vallari; D. Vargas; G. Vasseur; C. Vilela; W. G. S. Vinning; T. Vladisavljevic; V. V. Volkov; T. Wachala; J. Walker; J. G. Walsh; Y. Wang; D. Wark; M. O. Wascko; A. Weber; R. Wendell; M. J. Wilking; C. Wilkinson; J. R. Wilson; R. J. Wilson; K. Wood; C. Wret; Y. Yamada; K. Yamamoto; C. Yanagisawa; G. Yang; T. Yano; K. Yasutome; S. Yen; N. Yershov; M. Yokoyama; T. Yoshida; M. Yu; A. Zalewska; J. Zalipska; K. Zaremba; G. Zarnecki; M. Ziembicki; E. D. Zimmerman; M. Zito; S. Zsoldos; A. Zykova
• Keywords: muon neutrino; antineutrino/mu: secondary beam; KAMIOKANDE; 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; Physics, Particles & Fields; High Energy Physics - Experiment; neutrino; High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); Particle and Plasma Physics; [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]; Particle Physics Experiments; info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/530; Physics; J-PARC Lab; Nuclear & Particles Physics; neutrino: detector; Physical Sciences; 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics; numerical calculations: Monte Carlo; channel cross section: measured; asymmetry; Particles & Fields; FOS: Physical sciences; AXIAL MASS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; 530; beam: energy; near detector; 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences; 0103 physical sciences; antineutrino nucleus: interaction; SCATTERING; Nuclear; 0206 Quantum Physics; cross section: charged current; Science & Technology; NUCLEI; hep-ex; Molecular; 500; nuclear matter: effect; antineutrino charged-current; neutrino nucleus: interaction; sensitivity; High Energy Physics - Experiment; High Energy Physics - Experiment; neutrino/mu: secondary beam; SPECTRAL-FUNCTION; QC Physics / fizika; 0202 Atomic; experimental results

Physical review / D 101(11), 112001 (2020). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.112001<br/>This paper presents the first combined measurement of the double-differential muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross sections with no pions in the final state on hydrocarbon at the off-axis near detector of the T2K experiment. The data analyzed in this work comprise 5.8��1020 and 6.3��1020 protons on target in neutrino and antineutrino mode respectively, at a beam energy peak of 0.6 GeV. Using the two measured cross sections, the sum, difference, and asymmetry were calculated with the aim of better understanding the nuclear effects involved in such interactions. The extracted measurements have been compared with the prediction from different Monte Carlo generators and theoretical models showing that the difference between the two cross sections have interesting sensitivity to nuclear effects.<br/>Published by Inst.302363, Melville, NY<br/>