Measurement of the inclusiveνμcharged current cross section on carbon in the near detector of the T2K experiment

K Abe,K P Lee,S Bhadra,J Myslik,K Okumura,F Sánchez,J Dumarchez,T Wongjirad,F Di Lodovico,H Kakuno,T J Irvine,A Bravar,D Cherdack,T Golan,T Nakai,Y Seiya,N C Hastings,E Poplawska,E Kearns,K Nakayoshi,K Iyogi,V Galymov,C Giganti,M Ravonel,A Marchionni,T Kutter,A Izmaylov,K Koseki,K Nakamura,D R Hadley,L L Kormos,A P Furmanski,S Assylbekov,M Dziewiecki,M Messina,P Stamoulis,M Yokoyama,M O Wascko,M Murdoch,S Berkman,A Ariga,J D Perkin,S Nakayama,A Laing,K Suzuki,R Ohta,N Abgrall,M Macaire,A Cervera,A Missert,T Hasegawa,S Giffin,K Laihem,A Konaka,M Y Pac,T Tsukamoto,F Bay,K S Mcfarland,T Nakadaira,G Christodoulou,Y Kudenko,J Hignight,Y Shustrov,E Scantamburlo,K Ueno,M Gonin,R G Calland,K Nishikawa,D Ruterbories,T Hara,A Blondel,L Monfregola,C Hearty,C Andreopoulos,A D Marino,M Hierholzer,L Magaletti,B Quilain,A Kilinski,R Poutissou,S Murphy,A K Ichikawa,T Okusawa,R J Wilkes,P Guzowski,C Bojechko,N Grant,G Collazuol,E Rondio,P N Ratoff,L F Thompson,Y Fukuda,S Manly,A V Waldron,T Maruyama,A Suzuki,M Dziomba,S M Oser,M J Wilking,M Khabibullin,C Touramanis,T Duboyski,Z Williamson,L Escudero,S Di Luise,W Oryszczak,M Barbi,R L Helmer,K Mavrokoridis,C Bronner,S J Ives,A Gaudin,J Marteau,R P Litchfield,T Ishii,S Tobayama,C W Walter,T Lindner,R Kurjata,Y Obayashi,R A Owen,P De Perio,M G Catanesi,C Nielsen,S Yen,A Thorley,J Schwehr,R Sacco,A Kolaceke,I Karpikov,J Holeczek,S Moriyama,K K Joo,P Masliah,A Clifton,E D Zimmerman,M Ieva,D I Scully,S Kumaratunga,R Tacik,H M O’Keeffe,C Wilkinson,A Himmel,K Gilje,B E Berger,M Mezzetto,V Matveev,M Tzanov,D Autiero,F Dufour,M Shibata,M Lawe,G Vasseur,H Aihara,T Kikawa,K Sakashita,K Huang,S L Cartwright,M Malek,J Y Kim,A Longhin,E L Mathie,M Szeptycka,A Minamino,T Dealtry,G Kogan,Y Koshio,S Horikawa,M Otani,D Brailsford,S Mine,L Cremonesi,B Jamieson,V Paolone,C Mcgrew,A Korzenev,M Zito,G Barr,J Insler,N Yershov,N Mccauley,C Licciardi,D Gudin,K Kowalik,Y Takeuchi,J Kim,R J Wilson,Y Hayato,D Karlen,C A Miller,I T Lim,M Batkiewicz,K Connolly,E S Pinzon Guerra,Y Oyama,A Haesler,J T Sobczyk,M Bass,I Kreslo,P Kitching,A Hillairet,Y Uchida,A Khotjantsev,D Naples,D Terhorst,M Nakahata,S W Bentham,M Ziembicki,M D Haigh,B Still,L Ludovici,M Friend,J Imber,J P A M De André,F D M Blaszczyk,O Drapier,G De Rosa,M Hartz,K Ieki,Y Fujii,D G Brook-Roberge,L Southwell,E Mazzucato,A Zalewska,E Radicioni,P Mijakowski,K Nakajima,Y Totsuka,O Perevozchikov,T Tomura,R Terri,S Emery,S J Coleman,M Sorel,Y Kanazawa,A Curioni,L Zambelli,J H Jo,C Densham,T Akiri,C Yanagisawa,P Przewłocki ,Anu Jacob ,S Short,T C Nicholls,G Lopez ,F Khanam,T Sekiguchi,E Reinherz‐Aronis ,J Łagoda ,F Retière ,Jochen Steinmann ,O Mineev,Hirohisa Tanaka ,M B Smy ,M Tanaka,Tianlu Yuan ,C Lister,M Tada,A J Finch,T Szegłowski ,H W Sobel ,T Hiraki,D Hansen,W H Toki ,S A Dytman ,Hiroshi Kaji ,M Rayner ,T Ariga,Mark E Reeves ,Ian Taylor ,V Berardi,A Robert,Benjamin M Smith ,Toru Ishida ,C Metelko,Stefan Roth ,N J Buchanan ,M Shiozawa,D Beznosko,Th A Mueller ,D J Payne ,P Płoński ,J F Martin,P Hamilton,Shigeki Aoki ,J P Coleman ,T Wąchała ,A Vacheret,Makoto Miura ,J Caravaca Rodríguez,H Kubo,G J Barker,P A Rodrigues,K Scholberg,R Castillo,S Suzuki ,A C Kaboth ,M Laveder,P Jönsson ,Б Popov ,J Albert ,I Dankó ,T Kajita,Akira Murakami ,J Kisiel,A Dąbrowska ,J E Y Dobson ,M Day,Toshio Kobayashi ,J J Gómez-Cadenas ,R Wendell,Edward D Frank ,W R Kropp ,D Kiełczewska ,M Ikeda,Gillian Pearce ,S B Kim,M Posiadała ,J Wang,Y Suzuki,J M Poutissou ,T C Mclachlan ,J R Wilson,D Wark,I A Bertram ,K Yamamoto,R J Smith,Rajarshi Das ,J Marzec,A Rubbia,Sentaro Takahashi ,A Weber,Atsushi Takeda ,A Ereditato,Kendall Mahn ,Y Nishimura,J Kameda,P Sinclair,V Palladino,S B Boyd ,Stephen C Davis ,M Scott,H Sekiya,Steve Dennis ,B Kirby,D Sgalaberna,Y Yamada,Takanori Nagasaki ,К Заремба ,T Nakaya,C K Jung,M R Vagins ,R A Johnson,J Åmuda

doi:10.1103/physrevd.87.092003

Abstract

T2K has performed the first measurement of \nu{\mu} inclusive charged current interactions on carbon at neutrino energies of ~1 GeV where the measurement is reported as a flux-averaged double differential cross section in muon momentum and angle. The flux is predicted by the beam Monte Carlo and external data, including the results from the NA61/SHINE experiment. The data used for this measurement were taken in 2010 and 2011, with a total of 10.8 x 10^{19} protons-on-target. The analysis is performed on 4485 inclusive charged current interaction candidates selected in the most upstream fine-grained scintillator detector of the near detector. The flux-averaged total cross section is <\sigma_CC>_\phi =(6.91 +/- 0.13 (stat) +/- 0.84 (syst)) x10^{-39} cm^2/nucleon for a mean neutrino energy of 0.85 GeV.

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