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

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.19574
• Publication Date: 2024-03-28
• Authors: P. Abratenko; O. Alterkait; D. Andrade Aldana; L. Arellano; J. Asaadi; A. Ashkenazi; S. Balasubramanian; B. Baller; G. Barr; D. Barrow; J. Barrow; V. Basque; O. Benevides Rodr...; S. Berkman; A. Bhanderi; A. Bhat; M. Bhattacharya; M. Bishai; A. Blake; B. Bogart; T. Bolton; J. Y. Book; M. B. Brunetti; L. Camilleri; Y. Cao; D. Caratelli; F. Cavanna; G. Cerati; A. Chappell; Y. Chen; J. M. Conrad; M. R. Convery; L. Cooper-Troendle; J. I. Crespo-Anadón; Ryan Cross; M. Del Tutto; S. R. Dennis; P. Detje; Ann Devitt; R. Diurba; Z. Djurcic; R. Dorrill; K. Duffy; S. Dytman; B. Eberly; P. Englezos; A. Ereditato; J. J. Evans; R. Fine; Bonnie Fleming; W. Foreman; D. Franco; A. P. Furmanski; F. Gao; D. García-Gámez; S. Gardiner; G. Ge; S. Gollapinni; E. Gramellini; P. Green; H. Greenlee; L. Gu; Wei Gu; R. Guenette; P. Guzowski; L. Hagaman; O. Hen; C. Hilgenberg; G. A. Horton-Smith; Z. Imani; B. Irwin; Mohd Suhaili Ismail; C. James; Xihan Ji; J. H. Jo; R. A. Johnson; Y.-J. Jwa; D. Kalra; N. Kamp; G. Karagiorgi; W. Ketchum; M. Kirby; T. Kobilarcik; I. Kreslo; Nicholas D. Lane; I. Lepetic; J.-Y. Li; Y. Li; K. Lin; B. R. Littlejohn; H. Liu; W. C. Louis; X. Luo; C. Mariani; D. Marsden; J. Marshall; N. Lorenzo Martinez; D. A. Martínez Ca...; S. Martynenko; A. Mastbaum; I. Mawby; N. McConkey; V. Meddage; J. Méndez; Jessie Micallef; K. Miller; K. Mistry; T. Mohayai; A. Mogan; M. Mooney; A. F. Moor; C. D. Moore; L. Mora Lepin; M. M. Moudgalya; S. Mulleriababu; D. Naples; A. Navrer-Agasson; N. Nayak; M. Nebot-Guinot; J. Nowak; N. Oza; O. Palamara; N. Pallat; V. Paolone; A. Papadopoulou; V. Papavassiliou; H. B. Parkinson; S. F. Pate; N. Patel; Z. Pavlovic; E. Piasetzky; K. Pletcher; I. Pophale; X. Qian; J. L. Raaf; V. Radeka; A. Rafique; M. Reggiani-Guzzo; L. Ren; L. Rochester; J. Rodriguez Rondon; Matt T. Rosenberg; M. Ross-Lonergan; I. Safa; G. Scanavini; D. Schmitz; A. Schukraft; W. Seligman; M. H. Shaevitz; R. Sharankova; J. Y. Shi; E. L. Snider; M. Söderberg; S. Söldner‐Rembold; J. Spitz; M. Stancari; J. St. John; T. Strauss; A. M. Szelc; W. Tang; N. Taniuchi; K. Terao; C. Thorpe; D. Torbunov; D. Totani; M. Toups; Alexander Trettin; Y.-T. Tsai; J. Tyler; M. A. Uchida; T. Usher; B. Viren; M. Weber; H. Wei; A. J. White; S. Wolbers; T. Wongjirad; M. Wospakrik; K. Wresilo; W. Wu; E. Yandel; T. Yang; L. E. Yates; H. W. Yu; G. P. Zeller; J. Zennamo; C. Zhang
• Keywords: Charged current; Muon neutrino

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