First Simultaneous Measurement of Differential Muon-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon for Final States with and without Protons Using MicroBooNE Data-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

First Simultaneous Measurement of Differential Muon-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on Argon for Final States with and without Protons Using MicroBooNE Data

Published:2024-07-24 Issue:4 Volume:133 Page:
ISSN:0031-9007
Container-title:Physical Review Letters
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Rev. Lett.

Author:

Abratenko P.¹,Alterkait O.¹,Andrade Aldana D.²,Arellano L.³,Asaadi J.⁴,Ashkenazi A.⁵,Balasubramanian S.⁶,Baller B.⁶,Barr G.⁷,Barrow D.⁷,Barrow J.⁸⁹⁵,Basque V.⁶,Benevides Rodrigues O.²,Berkman S.⁶¹⁰,Bhanderi A.³,Bhat A.¹¹,Bhattacharya M.⁶,Bishai M.¹²,Blake A.¹³,Bogart B.¹⁴^ORCID,Bolton T.¹⁵,Book J. Y.¹⁶,Brunetti M. B.¹⁷,Camilleri L.¹⁸,Cao Y.³,Caratelli D.¹⁹,Cavanna F.⁶,Cerati G.⁶,Chappell A.¹⁷,Chen Y.²⁰,Conrad J. M.⁸,Convery M.²⁰,Cooper-Troendle L.²¹,Crespo-Anadón J. I.²²,Cross R.¹⁷,Del Tutto M.⁶,Dennis S. R.²³,Detje P.²³,Devitt A.¹³,Diurba R.²⁴,Djurcic Z.²⁵,Dorrill R.²,Duffy K.⁷,Dytman S.²¹,Eberly B.²⁶,Englezos P.²⁷,Ereditato A.¹¹⁶,Evans J. J.³,Fine R.²⁸,Finnerud O. G.³,Foreman W.²,Fleming B. T.¹¹,Franco D.¹¹,Furmanski A. P.⁹,Gao F.¹⁹,Garcia-Gamez D.²⁹,Gardiner S.⁶,Ge G.¹⁸,Gollapinni S.²⁸,Gramellini E.³,Green P.⁷,Greenlee H.⁶,Gu L.¹³,Gu W.¹²,Guenette R.³,Guzowski P.³,Hagaman L.¹¹,Hen O.⁸,Hilgenberg C.⁹,Horton-Smith G. A.¹⁵,Imani Z.¹,Irwin B.⁹,Ismail M. S.²¹,James C.⁶,Ji X.³⁰,Jo J. H.¹²,Johnson R. A.³¹,Jwa Y.-J.¹⁸,Kalra D.¹⁸,Kamp N.⁸,Karagiorgi G.¹⁸,Ketchum W.⁶,Kirby M.¹²⁶,Kobilarcik T.⁶,Kreslo I.²⁴,Leibovitch M. B.¹⁹,Lepetic I.²⁷,Li J.-Y.³²,Li K.³³,Li Y.¹²,Lin K.²⁷,Littlejohn B. R.²,Liu H.¹²,Louis W. C.²⁸,Luo X.¹⁹,Mariani C.³⁴,Marsden D.³,Marshall J.¹⁷,Martinez N.¹⁵,Martinez Caicedo D. A.³⁵,Martynenko S.¹²,Mastbaum A.²⁷,Mawby I.¹³,McConkey N.³⁶,Meddage V.¹⁵,Micallef J.⁸¹,Miller K.¹¹,Mogan A.³⁷,Mohayai T.⁶³⁸,Mooney M.³⁷,Moor A. F.²³,Moore C. D.⁶,Mora Lepin L.³,Moudgalya M. M.³,Mulleriababu S.²⁴,Naples D.²¹,Navrer-Agasson A.³,Nayak N.¹²,Nebot-Guinot M.³²,Nowak J.¹³,Oza N.¹⁸,Palamara O.⁶,Pallat N.⁹,Paolone V.²¹,Papadopoulou A.²⁵,Papavassiliou V.³⁹,Parkinson H. B.³²,Pate S. F.³⁹,Patel N.¹³,Pavlovic Z.⁶,Piasetzky E.⁵,Pophale I.¹³,Qian X.¹²,Raaf J. L.⁶,Radeka V.¹²,Rafique A.²⁵,Reggiani-Guzzo M.³²³,Ren L.³⁹,Rochester L.²⁰,Rodriguez Rondon J.³⁵,Rosenberg M.¹,Ross-Lonergan M.²⁸,Rudolf von Rohr C.²⁴,Safa I.¹⁸,Scanavini G.³³,Schmitz D. W.¹¹,Schukraft A.⁶,Seligman W.¹⁸,Shaevitz M. H.¹⁸,Sharankova R.⁶,Shi J.²³,Snider E. L.⁶,Soderberg M.⁴⁰,Söldner-Rembold S.³,Spitz J.¹⁴,Stancari M.⁶,John J. St.⁶,Strauss T.⁶,Szelc A. M.³²,Tang W.⁴¹,Taniuchi N.²³,Terao K.²⁰,Thorpe C.¹³³,Torbunov D.¹²,Totani D.¹⁹,Toups M.⁶,Tsai Y.-T.²⁰,Tyler J.¹⁵,Uchida M. A.²³,Usher T.²⁰,Viren B.¹²,Weber M.²⁴,Wei H.⁴²,White A. J.¹¹,Wolbers S.⁶,Wongjirad T.¹,Wospakrik M.⁶,Wresilo K.²³,Wu W.⁶²¹,Yandel E.¹⁹,Yang T.⁶,Yates L. E.⁶,Yu H. W.¹²,Zeller G. P.⁶,Zennamo J.⁶,Zhang C.¹²,

Affiliation:

1. Tufts University

2. Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)

3. The University of Manchester

4. University of Texas

5. Tel Aviv University

6. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)

7. University of Oxford

8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

9. University of Minnesota

10. Michigan State University

11. University of Chicago

12. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

13. Lancaster University

14. University of Michigan

15. Kansas State University (KSU)

16. Harvard University

17. University of Warwick

18. Columbia University

19. University of California

20. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

21. University of Pittsburgh

22. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT)

23. University of Cambridge

24. Universität Bern

25. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

26. University of Southern Maine

27. Rutgers University

28. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

29. Universidad de Granada

30. Nankai University

31. University of Cincinnati

32. University of Edinburgh

33. Yale University

34. Virginia Tech

35. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT)

36. University College London

37. Colorado State University

38. Indiana University

39. New Mexico State University (NMSU)

40. Syracuse University

41. University of Tennessee

42. Louisiana State University

Abstract

We report the first double-differential neutrino-argon cross section measurement made simultaneously for final states with and without protons for the inclusive muon neutrino charged-current interaction channel. The proton kinematics of this channel are further explored with a differential cross section measurement as a function of the leading proton’s kinetic energy that extends across the detection threshold. These measurements use data collected with the MicroBooNE detector from 6.4×1020 protons on target from the Fermilab booster neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy of ∼0.8 GeV. Extensive data-driven model validation utilizing the conditional constraint formalism is employed. This motivates enlarging the uncertainties with an empirical reweighting approach to minimize the possibility of extracting biased cross section results. The extracted nominal flux-averaged cross sections are compared to widely used event generator predictions revealing severe mismodeling of final states without protons for muon neutrino charged-current interactions, possibly from insufficient treatment of final state interactions. These measurements provide a wealth of new information useful for improving event generators which will enhance the sensitivity of precision measurements in neutrino experiments.

Published by the American Physical Society

2024

Funder

Fermilab

U.S. Department of Energy

Office of Science

High Energy Physics

Nuclear Physics

National Science Foundation

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Science and Technology Facilities Council

UK Research and Innovation