Measurements of ν̅
μ and ν̅
μ + ν
μ charged-current cross-sections without detected pions or protons on water and hydrocarbon at a mean anti-neutrino energy of 0.86 GeV
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics Oxford University Press (OUP) 2021:4 (2021) 043C01
Authors:
K Abe, N Akhlaq, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, C Andreopoulos, L Anthony, M Antonova, S Aoki, A Ariga, T Arihara, Y Asada, Y Ashida, ET Atkin, Y Awataguchi, S Ban, M Barbi, GJ Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, C Barry, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, S Berkman, L Berns, S Bhadra, S Bienstock, A Blanchet, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, T Bonus, B Bourguille, SB Boyd, D Brailsford, A Bravar, D Bravo Berguño, C Bronner, S Bron, A Bubak, M Buizza Avanzini, J Calcutt, T Campbell, S Cao, SL Cartwright, MG Catanesi, A Cervera, A Chappell, C Checchia, D Cherdack, N Chikuma, G Christodoulou, M Cicerchia, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook, D Coplowe, A Cudd, A Dabrowska, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, PF Denner, SR Dennis, C Densham, A Dergacheva, F Di Lodovico, N Dokania, S Dolan, TA Doyle, O Drapier, J Dumarchez, P Dunne, A Eguchi, 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 Fusshoeller, K Gameil, C Giganti, T Golan, M Gonin, A Gorin, M Guigue, DR Hadley, JT Haigh, P Hamacher-Baumann, DA Harris, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, S Hassani, NC Hastings, T Hayashino, Y Hayato, A Hiramoto, M Hogan, J Holeczek, NT Hong Van, T Honjo, F Iacob, AK Ichikawa, M Ikeda, T Ishida, T Ishii, M Ishitsuka, K Iwamoto, A Izmaylov, N Izumi, M Jakkapu, B Jamieson, SJ Jenkins, C Jesús-Valls, M Jiang, S Johnson, P Jonsson, CK Jung, PB Jurj, M Kabirnezhad, AC Kaboth, T Kajita, H Kakuno, J Kameda, D Karlen, SP Kasetti, Y Kataoka, Y Katayama, T Katori, Y Kato, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, T Kikawa, H Kikutani, H Kim, J Kim, S King, J Kisiel, A Knight, A Knox, T Kobata, T Kobayashi, L Koch, T Koga, A Konaka, LL Kormos, Y Koshio, A Kostin, K Kowalik, H Kubo, Y Kudenko, N Kukita, S Kuribayashi, R Kurjata, T Kutter, M Kuze, L Labarga, J Lagoda, M Lamoureux, D Last, M Laveder, M Lawe, M Licciardi, T Lindner, RP Litchfield, SL Liu, X Li, A Longhin, L Ludovici, X Lu, T Lux, LN Machado, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, S Manly, L Maret, AD Marino, L Marti-Magro, JF Martin, T Maruyama, T Matsubara, K Matsushita, V Matveev, C Mauger, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, M McCarthy, N McCauley, J McElwee, KS McFarland, C McGrew, A Mefodiev, C Metelko, M Mezzetto, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, 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, Y Nakano, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, C Nantais, CER Naseby, TV Ngoc, VQ Nguyen, K Niewczas, K Nishikawa, Y Nishimura, E Noah, TS Nonnenmacher, F Nova, P Novella, J Nowak, JC Nugent, HM O’Keeffe, L O’Sullivan, T Odagawa, T Ogawa, R Okada, K Okumura, T Okusawa, SM Oser, RA Owen, Y Oyama, V Palladino, JL Palomino, V Paolone, M Pari, WC Parker, S Parsa, J Pasternak, P Paudyal, M Pavin, D Payne, GC Penn, L Pickering, C Pidcott, G Pintaudi, ES Pinzon Guerra, C Pistillo, B Popov, K Porwit, M Posiadala-Zezula, A Pritchard, B Quilain, T Radermacher, E Radicioni, B Radics, PN Ratoff, E Reinherz-Aronis, C Riccio, E Rondio, S Roth, A Rubbia, AC Ruggeri, C Ruggles, A Rychter, K Sakashita, F Sánchez, G Santucci, CM Schloesser, K Scholberg, J Schwehr, M Scott, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, D Sgalaberna, R Shah, A Shaikhiev, F Shaker, A Shaykina, M Shiozawa, W Shorrock, A Shvartsman, K Skwarczynski, A Smirnov, M Smy, JT Sobczyk, H Sobel, FJP Soler, Y Sonoda, R Spina, J Steinmann, S Suvorov, A Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, AA Sztuc, M Tada, M Tajima, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, HK Tanaka, HA Tanaka, S Tanaka, Y Tanihara, M Tani, N Teshima, LF Thompson, W Toki, C Touramanis, T Towstego, 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, Y Wang, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, JR Wilson, RJ Wilson, K Wood, C Wret, J Xia, Y Yamada, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, G Yang, T Yano, K Yasutome, S Yen, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yoshida, Y Yoshimoto, M Yu, A Zalewska, J Zalipska, K Zaremba, G Zarnecki, M Ziembicki, ED Zimmerman, M Zito, S Zsoldos, A Zykova
Abstract:
Abstract
We report measurements of the flux-integrated ν̅μ and ν̅μ + νμ charged-current cross-sections on water and hydrocarbon targets using the T2K anti-neutrino beam with a mean beam energy of 0.86 GeV. The signal is defined as the (anti-)neutrino charged-current interaction with one induced $\mu^\pm$ and no detected charged pion or proton. These measurements are performed using a new WAGASCI module recently added to the T2K setup in combination with the INGRID Proton Module. The phase space of muons is restricted to the high-detection efficiency region, $p_{\mu}>400~{\rm MeV}/c$ and $\theta_{\mu}<30^{\circ}$, in the laboratory frame. An absence of pions and protons in the detectable phase spaces of $p_{\pi}>200~{\rm MeV}/c$, $\theta_{\pi}<70^{\circ}$ and $p_{\rm p}>600~{\rm MeV}/c$, $\theta_{\rm p}<70^{\circ}$ is required. In this paper, both the $\overline{\nu}_\mu$ cross-sections and $\overline{\nu}_\mu+\nu_\mu$ cross-sections on water and hydrocarbon targets and their ratios are provided by using the D’Agostini unfolding method. The results of the integrated $\overline{\nu}_\mu$ cross-section measurements over this phase space are $\sigma_{\rm H_{2}O}=(1.082\pm0.068(\rm stat.)^{+0.145}_{-0.128}(\rm syst.)) \times 10^{-39}\,{\rm cm^{2} / nucleon}$, $\sigma_{\rm CH}=(1.096\pm0.054(\rm stat.)^{+0.132}_{-0.117}(\rm syst.)) \times 10^{-39}\,{\rm cm^{2} / nucleon}$, and $\sigma_{\rm H_{2}O}/\sigma_{\rm CH} = 0.987\pm0.078(\rm stat.)^{+0.093}_{-0.090}(\rm syst.)$. The $\overline{\nu}_\mu+\nu_\mu$ cross-section is $\sigma_{\rm H_{2}O} = (1.155\pm0.064(\rm stat.)^{+0.148}_{-0.129}(\rm syst.)) \times 10^{-39}\,{\rm cm^{2} / nucleon}$, $\sigma_{\rm CH}=(1.159\pm0.049(\rm stat.)^{+0.129}_{-0.115}(\rm syst.)) \times 10^{-39}\,{\rm cm^{2} / nucleon}$, and $\sigma_{\rm H_{2}O}/\sigma_{\rm CH}=0.996\pm0.069(\rm stat.)^{+0.083}_{-0.078}(\rm syst.)$.
