Measurement of the Antineutrino Neutral-Current Elastic Differential Cross Section

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo; B. C. Brown; L. Bugel; G. Cheng; E. D. Church; J. M. Conrad; R. Dharmapalan; Z. Djurcic; D. A. Finley; R. Ford; F. G. Garcia; G. T. Garvey; J. Grange; W. Huelsnitz; C. Ignarra; R. Imlay; R. A. Johnson; G. Karagiorgi; T. Katori; T. Kobilarcik; W. C. Louis; C. Mariani; W. Marsh; G. B. Mills; J. Mirabal; C. D. Moore; J. Mousseau; P. Nienaber; B. Osmanov; Z. Pavlovic; D. Perevalov; C. C. Polly; H. Ray; B. P. Roe; A. D. Russell; M. H. Shaevitz; J. Spitz; I. Stancu; R. Tayloe; R. G. Van de Water; M. O. Wascko; D. H. White; D. A. Wickremasinghe; G. P. Zeller; E. D. Zimmerman

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.91.012004

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Measurement of the Antineutrino Neutral-Current Elastic Differential Cross Section

arXiv:1309.7257 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.91.012004

Abstract

We report the measurement of the flux-averaged antineutrino neutral current elastic scattering cross section ( $d I ¨ _{I^ˉ ½ N \to I^ˉ ½ N} / d Q^{2}$ ) on CH $_{2}$ by the MiniBooNE experiment using the largest sample of antineutrino neutral current elastic candidate events ever collected. The ratio of the antineutrino to neutrino neutral current elastic scattering cross sections and a ratio of antineutrino neutral current elastic to antineutrino charged current quasi elastic cross section is also presented.