Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current single $π^+$
production on hydrocarbon using the T2K off-axis near detector ND280
Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology American Physical Society (2020)
Authors:
K Abe, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, J Amey, C Andreopoulos, L Anthony, M Antonova, S Aoki, A Ariga, Y Ashida, ET Atkin, Y Awataguchi, Y Azuma, S Ban, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, C Barry, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, S Berkman, RM Berner, L Berns, S Bhadra, S Bienstock, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, S Bordoni, B Bourguille, SB Boyd, D Brailsford, A Bravar, C Bronner, M Buizza Avanzini, J Calcutt, RG Calland, T Campbell, S Cao, SL Cartwright, R Castillo, MG Catanesi, A Cervera, A Chappell, C Checchia, D Cherdack, N Chikuma, G Christodoulou, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook, D Coplowe, A Cudd, A Dabrowska, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, PF Denner, SR Dennis, C Densham, F Di Lodovico, N Dokania, S Dolan, O Drapier, KE Duy, J Dumarchez, P Dunne, L Eklund, S Emery-Schrenk, A Ereditato, P Fernandez, T Feusels, AJ Finch, GA Fiorentini, G Fiorillo, C Francois, M Friend, Y Fujii, R Fujita, D Fukuda, R Fukuda, Y Fukuda, K Gameil, A Garcia, C Giganti, F Gizzarelli, T Golan, M Gonin, A Gorin, M Guigue, DR Hadley, L Haegel, JT Haigh, P Hamacher-Baumann, D Hansen, J Harada, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, NC Hastings, T Hayashino, Y Hayato, A Hillairet, T Hiraki, A Hiramoto, S Hirota, M Hogan, J Holeczek, NT Hong Van, F Hosomi, K Huang, F Iacob, AK Ichikawa, M Ikeda, J Imber, T Inoue, J Insler, RA Intonti, T Ishida, T Ishii, M Ishitsuka, E Iwai, K Iwamoto, A Izmaylov, B Jamieson, SJ Jenkins, C Jesus-Valls, M Jiang, S Johnson, P Jonsson, CK Jung, M Kabirnezhad, AC Kaboth, T Kajita, H Kakuno, J Kameda, D Karlen, Y Kataoka, T Katori, Y Kato, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, H Kim, J Kim, S King, J Kisiel, A Knight, A Knox, T Kobayashi, L Koch, T Koga, PP Koller, A Konaka, LL Kormos, Y Koshio, K Kowalik, H Kubo, Y Kudenko, N Kukita, R Kurjata, T Kutter, M Kuze, L Labarga, J Lagoda, I Lamont, M Lamoureux, P Lasorak, M Laveder, M Lawe, M Licciardi, T Lindner, ZJ Liptak, RP Litcheld, SL Liu, X Li, A Longhin, JP Lopez, T Lou, L Ludovici, X Lu, T Lux, LN Machado, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, S Manly, L Maret, AD Marino, JF Martin, P Martins, S Martynenko, T Maruyama, T Matsubara, K Matsushita, V Matveev, K Mavrokoridis, WY Ma, E Mazzucato, M McCarthy, N McCauley, KS McFarland, C McGrew, A Mefodiev, C Metelko, M Mezzetto, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, A Missert, M Miura, L Molina Bueno, S Moriyama, J Morrison, Th A Mueller, L Munteanu, S Murphy, Y Nagai, T Nakadaira, M Nakahata, Y Nakajima, A Nakamura, KG Nakamura, K Nakamura, KD Nakamura, Y Nakanishi, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, C Nantais, TV Ngoc, C Nielsen, K Niewczas, K Nishikawa, Y Nishimura, TS Nonnenmacher, F Nova, P Novella, J Nowak, JC Nugent, HM O'Keeffe, L O'Sullivan, K Okumura, T Okusawa, W Oryszczak, SM Oser T Ovsyannikova, RA Owen, Y Oyam, V Palladino, JL Palomino, V Paolone, WC Parker, ND Patel, P Paudyal, M Pavin, D Payne, GC Penn, Y Petrov L Pickering, C Pidcott, ES Pinzon Guerra, C Pistillo, B Popov K Porwit, M Posiadala-Zezula, JM Poutissou, A Pritchard, P Przewlocki, B Quilain, T Radermacher, E Radicioni, B Radics, PN Rato, MA Rayner, E Reinherz-Aronis, C Riccio, E Rondio, B Rossi, S Roth, A Rubbia, AC Ruggeri, A Rychter, K Sakashita, F Sanchez, S Sasaki, E Scantamburlo, CM Schloesser, K Scholberg, J Schwehr, M Scott, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, D Sgalaberna, R Shah, A Shaikhiev, F Shaker, D Shaw, A Shaykina, M Shiozawa, T Shirahige, W Shorrock, A Shvartsman, A Smirnov, M Smy, JT Sobczyk, H Sobel, FJP Soler, Y Sonoda, J Steinmann, T Stewart, P Stowell, Y Suda, S Suvorov, A Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, AA Sztuc, R Tacik, M Tada, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, R Tamura, HK Tanaka, HA Tanaka, S Tanaka, T Thakore, LF Thompson, S Tobayama, W Toki, T Tomura, C Touramanis, KM Tsui, T Tsukamoto, M Tzanov, Y Uchida, W Uno, M Vagins, S Valder, Z Vallari, D Vargas, G Vasseur, C Vilela, WGS Vinning, T Vladisavljevic, VV Volkov, T Wachala, J Walker, JG Walsh, CW Walter, Y Wang, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, JR Wilson, RJ Wilson, K Wood, C Wret, Y Yamada, K Yamamoto, S Yamasu, C Yanagisawa, G Yang, T Yano, K Yasutome, S Yen, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yoshida, M Yu, A Zalewska, J Zalipska, L Zambelli, K Zaremba, G Zarnecki, M Ziembicki, ED Zimmerman, M Zito, S Zsoldos, A Zykova
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.
