Improved constraint on the MINERvA medium energy neutrino flux using $\bar{\nu }{e}^{-}\to \bar{\nu }{e}^{-}$ data

Abstract

Processes with precisely known cross sections, like neutrino electron elastic scattering ($\nu e^{-}\to \nu e^{-}$) and inverse muon decay (${\nu }_{\mu }{e}^{-}\to {\mu }^{-}{\nu }_e$) have been used by MINERvA to constrain the uncertainty on the NuMI neutrino beam flux. This work presents a new measurement of neutrino elastic scattering with electrons using the medium energy \numubar enhanced NuMI beam. A sample of 578 events after background subtraction is used in combination with the previous measurement on the \numu beam and the inverse muon decay measurement to reduce the uncertainty on the \numu flux in the \numu-enhanced beam from 7.6\% to 3.3\% and the \numubar flux in the \numubar-enhanced beam from 7.8\% to 4.7\%.

arXiv comment12 pages, 16 figures

References in corpus (20)

• The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator
• Inclusive Charged--Current Neutrino--Nucleus Reactions
• First measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters using neutrinos and antineutrinos by NOvA
• The NuMI Neutrino Beam
• Inclusive Quasi-Elastic Charged-Current Neutrino-Nucleus Reactions
• Design, Calibration, and Performance of the MINERvA Detector
• Neutrino Flux Predictions for the NuMI Beam
• Improved constraints on neutrino mixing from the T2K experiment with $3.13\times 10^{21}$ protons on target
• Higher Twist, ${\xi }_w$ Scaling, and Effective $LOPDFs$ for Lepton Scattering in the Few GeV Region
• Measurement of Neutrino Flux from Neutrino-Electron Elastic Scattering
• Constraint of the MINERvA Medium Energy Neutrino Flux using Neutrino-Electron Elastic Scattering
• Theory of elastic neutrino-electron scattering
• First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielastic-like ${\nu }_{\mu }$-Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector
• Neutrino-electron elastic scattering for flux determination at the DUNE oscillation experiment
• Measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at $⟨E_{\nu }⟩$ = 3.6 GeV
• Measurement of Total and Differential Cross Sections of Neutrino and Antineutrino Coherent ${\pi }^{\pm }$ Production on Carbon
• The MINER$\nu$A Data Acquisition System and Infrastructure
• Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA
• Measurements of ${\bar{\nu }}_{\mu }$ and ${\bar{\nu }}_{\mu }+{\nu }_{\mu }$ charged-current cross-sections without detected pions nor protons on water and hydrocarbon at mean antineutrino energy of 0.86 GeV
• Use of Neutrino Scattering Events with Low Hadronic Recoil to Inform Neutrino Flux and Detector Energy Scale

Cited by in corpus (6)

• Dipole-Coupled Neutrissimo Explanations of the MiniBooNE Excess Including Constraints from MINERvA Data
• Simultaneous measurement of muon neutrino ${\nu }_{\mu }$ charged-current single ${\pi }^{+}$ production in CH, C, H${}_2$O, Fe, and Pb targets in MINERvA
• Measurement of Electron Neutrino and Antineutrino Cross Sections at Low Momentum Transfer
• Leptonic neutral-current probes in a short-distance DUNE-like setup
• Radiative corrections to inverse muon decay for accelerator neutrinos
• Neutrino Induced Charged Current Coherent Pion Production for Constraining the Muon Neutrino Flux at DUNE