Giles Barr

Abstract:

We report the measurements of single and double differential cross section of muon neutrino charged-current interactions on carbon with a single positively charged pion in the final state at the T2K off-axis near detector using $5.56\times10^{20}$ protons on target. The analysis uses data control samples for the background subtraction and the cross section signal, defined as a single negatively charged muon and a single positively charged pion exiting from the target nucleus, is extracted using an unfolding method. The model dependent cross section, integrated over the T2K off-axis neutrino beam spectrum peaking at $0.6$~GeV, is measured to be $\sigma = (11.76 \pm 0.44 \text{(stat)} \pm 2.39 \text{(syst)}) \times 10^{-40} \text{cm}^2$~$\text{nucleon}^{-1}$. Various differential cross sections are measured, including the first measurement of the Adler angles for single charged pion production in neutrino interactions with heavy nuclei target.

Abstract:

Neutrino- and antineutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielasticlike interactions are measured at SuperKamiokande using nuclear deexcitation γ rays to identify signal-like interactions in data from a 14.94ð16.35Þ × 1020 protons-on-target exposure of the T2K neutrino (antineutrino) beam. The measured flux-averaged cross sections on oxygen nuclei are hσν-NCQEi ¼ 1.70 0.17ðstat:Þ þ0.51 −0.38 ðsyst:Þ × 10−38 cm2=oxygen with a fluxaveraged energy of 0.82 GeV and hσν¯-NCQEi ¼ 0.98 0.16ðstat:Þ þ0.26 −0.19 ðsyst:Þ × 10−38 cm2=oxygen with a flux-averaged energy of 0.68 GeV, for neutrinos and antineutrinos, respectively. These results are the most precise to date, and the antineutrino result is the first cross section measurement of this channel. They are compared with various theoretical predictions. The impact on evaluation of backgrounds to searches for supernova relic neutrinos at present and future water Cherenkov detectors is also discussed.