First measurement of the muon neutrino charged current single pion production cross section on water with the T2K near detector
| dc.contributor.author | Abe, K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hillairet, Anthony | |
| dc.contributor.author | Karlen, Dean | |
| dc.contributor.author | Myslik, Jordan William | |
| dc.contributor.author | et al. | |
| dc.contributor.author | T2K Collaboration | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-16T20:58:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-01-16T20:58:53Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2017 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The T2K off-axis near detector, ND280, is used to make the first differential cross section measurements of muon neutrino charged current single positive pion production on a water target at energies ∼0.8 GeV. The differential measurements are presented as a function of the muon and pion kinematics, in the restricted phase space defined by pπ+>200 MeV/c, pμ>200 MeV/c, cos(θπ+)>0.3 and cos(θμ)>0.3. The total flux integrated νμ charged current single positive pion production cross section on water in the restricted phase space is measured to be ⟨σ⟩ϕ=4.25±0.48(stat)±1.56(syst)×10−40 cm2/nucleon. The total cross section is consistent with the NEUT prediction (5.03×10−40 cm2/nucleon) and 2σ lower than the GENIE prediction (7.68×10−40 cm2/nucleon). The differential cross sections are in good agreement with the NEUT generator. The GENIE simulation reproduces well the shapes of the distributions, but overestimates the overall cross section normalization. | en_US |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | We thank the J-PARC staff for superb accelerator performance and the CERN NA61 collaboration for providing valuable particle production data. We acknowledge the support of MEXT, Japan; NSERC (Grant No. SAPPJ-2014-00031), NRC and CFI, Canada; CEA and CNRS/IN2P3, France; DFG, Germany; INFN, Italy; National Science Centre (NCN), Poland; RSF, RFBR and MES, Russia; MINECO and ERDF funds, Spain; SNSF and SERI, Switzerland; STFC, UK; and DOE, USA. We also thank CERN for the UA1/NOMAD magnet, DESY for the HERA-B magnet mover system, NII for SINET4, the WestGrid and SciNet consortia in Compute Canada, and GridPP in the United Kingdom. In addition, participation of individual researchers and institutions has been further supported by funds from ERC (FP7), H2020 Grant No. RISE-GA644294-JENNIFER, EU; JSPS, Japan; Royal Society, UK; and the DOE Early Career program, USA. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Abe, K.; Andreopoulos, C.; Antonova, M.; Aoki, S.; Ariga, A.; Assylbekov, S.; … & Żmuda, J. (2017). First measurement of the muon neutrino charged current single pion production cross section on water with the T2K near detector. Physical Review D, 95(1), article 12010. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.012010 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.012010 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11494 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Physical Review D | en_US |
| dc.subject | Neutrino interactions | |
| dc.subject | Neutrino oscillations | |
| dc.subject | Neutrinos | |
| dc.subject | Cherenkov detectors | |
| dc.subject.department | Department of Physics and Astronomy | |
| dc.title | First measurement of the muon neutrino charged current single pion production cross section on water with the T2K near detector | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |