First Measurement of Muon Neutrino Charged Current Quasielastic (CCQE) Double Differential Cross Section

Abstract

Using a high statistics sample of muon neutrino charged current quasielastic (CCQE) events, we report the first measurement of the double differential cross section as a function of muon energy and angle for this process. The result features reduced model dependence and supplies the most complete information on neutrino CCQE scattering to date. Measurements of the absolute cross section as a function of neutrino energy and the single differential cross section as a function of 4-momentum transfer squared are also provided, largely to facilitate comparison with prior measurements. This data is of particular use for understanding the axial-vector form factor of the nucleon as well as improving the simulation of low energy neutrino interactions on nuclear targets, which is of particular relevance for experiments searching for neutrino oscillations.

6 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region (NuInt09)

Cited by in corpus (10)

• A unified approach for nucleon knock-out, coherent and incoherent pion production in neutrino interactions with nuclei
• NuSTEC White Paper: Status and Challenges of Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
• Neutrino and antineutrino quasielastic interactions with nuclei
• Progress and open questions in the physics of neutrino cross sections
• Energy reconstruction in quasielastic scattering in the MiniBooNE and T2K experiments
• Event Generators for High-Energy Physics Experiments
• Pion production in the MiniBooNE experiment
• Analysis of flux-integrated cross sections for quasi-elastic neutrino charged-current scattering off ${}^{12}$C at MiniBooNE energies
• Recent Advances and Open Questions in Neutrino-induced Quasi-elastic Scattering and Single Photon Production
• Multinucleon excitations in neutrino-nucleus scattering: connecting different microscopic models for the correlations