Aguilar-Arevalo AA, Bazarko AO, Brice SJ, Brown BC, Bugel L, Cao J, Coney L, Conrad JM, Cox DC, Curioni A, Djurcic Z, Finley DA, Fleming BT, Ford R, Garcia FG, Garvey GT, Green C, Green JA, Hart TL, Hawker E, Imlay R, Johnson RA, Kasper P, Katori T, Kobilarcik T, Kourbanis I, Koutsoliotas S, Laird EM, Link JM, Liu Y, Liu Y, Louis WC, Mahn KBM, Marsh W, Martin PS, McGregor G, Metcalf W, Meyers PD, Mills F, Mills GB, Monroe J, Moore CD, Nelson RH, Nienaber P, Ouedraogo S, Patterson RB, Perevalov D, Polly CC, Prebys E, Raaf JL, Ray H, Roe BP, Russell AD, Sandberg V, Schirato R, Schmitz D, Shaevitz MH, Shoemaker FC, Smith D, Sorel M, Spentzouris P, Stancu I, Stefanski RJ, Sung M, Tanaka HA, Tayloe R, Tzanov M, Van de Water R, Wascko MO, White DH, Wilking MJ, Yang HJ, Zeller GP, Zimmerman ED. Measurement of muon neutrino quasielastic scattering on carbon.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008;
100:032301. [PMID:
18232974 DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.100.032301]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
Abstract
The observation of neutrino oscillations is clear evidence for physics beyond the standard model. To make precise measurements of this phenomenon, neutrino oscillation experiments, including MiniBooNE, require an accurate description of neutrino charged current quasielastic (CCQE) cross sections to predict signal samples. Using a high-statistics sample of nu_(mu) CCQE events, MiniBooNE finds that a simple Fermi gas model, with appropriate adjustments, accurately characterizes the CCQE events observed in a carbon-based detector. The extracted parameters include an effective axial mass, M_(A)(eff)=1.23+/-0.20 GeV, that describes the four-momentum dependence of the axial-vector form factor of the nucleon, and a Pauli-suppression parameter, kappa=1.019+/-0.011. Such a modified Fermi gas model may also be used by future accelerator-based experiments measuring neutrino oscillations on nuclear targets.
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