Measurement of the neutrino neutral-current elastic differential cross section on mineral oil at Eν ∼ 1 GeV

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作者
Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A. [14 ]
Anderson, C. E. [19 ]
Bazarko, A. O. [16 ]
Brice, S. J. [8 ]
Brown, B. C. [8 ]
Bugel, L. [12 ]
Cao, J. [14 ]
Coney, L. [5 ]
Conrad, J. M. [13 ]
Cox, D. C. [10 ]
Curioni, A. [19 ]
Dharmapalan, R. [1 ]
Djurcic, Z. [2 ]
Finley, D. A. [8 ]
Fleming, B. T. [19 ]
Ford, R. [8 ]
Garcia, F. G. [8 ]
Garvey, G. T. [11 ]
Grange, J. [9 ]
Green, C. [8 ,11 ]
Green, J. A. [10 ,11 ]
Hart, T. L. [5 ]
Hawker, E. [4 ,11 ]
Imlay, R. [12 ]
Johnson, R. A. [4 ]
Karagiorgi, G. [13 ]
Kasper, P. [8 ]
Katori, T. [10 ,13 ]
Kobilarcik, T. [8 ]
Kourbanis, I. [8 ]
Koutsoliotas, S. [3 ]
Laird, E. M. [16 ]
Linden, S. K. [19 ]
Link, J. M. [18 ]
Liu, Y. [1 ,15 ]
Liu, Y. [1 ,15 ]
Louis, W. C. [11 ]
Mahn, K. B. M. [6 ]
Marsh, W. [8 ]
Mauger, C. [11 ]
McGary, V. T. [13 ]
McGregor, G. [11 ]
Metcalf, W. [12 ]
Meyers, P. D. [16 ]
Mills, F. [8 ]
Mills, G. B. [11 ]
Monroe, J. [6 ]
Moore, C. D. [8 ]
Mousseau, J. [9 ]
Nelson, R. H. [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
[2] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[3] Bucknell Univ, Lewisburg, PA 17837 USA
[4] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[5] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[6] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[7] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[8] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[9] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[10] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[11] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[12] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[13] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[14] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Ciencias Nucl, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
[15] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[16] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[17] St Marys Univ Minnesota, Winona, MN 55987 USA
[18] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[19] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2010年 / 82卷 / 09期
关键词
STRANGE FORM-FACTORS; PION ABSORPTION; SCATTERING; PROTON; SIMULATION; DEUTERIUM; MU;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.092005
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We report a measurement of the flux-averaged neutral-current elastic differential cross section for neutrinos scattering on mineral oil (CH2) as a function of four-momentum transferred squared, Q(2). It is obtained by measuring the kinematics of recoiling nucleons with kinetic energy greater than 50 MeV which are readily detected in MiniBooNE. This differential cross-section distribution is fit with fixed nucleon form factors apart from an axial mass M-A that provides a best fit for M-A = 1.39 +/- 0.11 GeV. Using the data from the charged-current neutrino interaction sample, a ratio of neutral-current to charged-current quasielastic cross sections as a function of Q(2) has been measured. Additionally, single protons with kinetic energies above 350 MeV can be distinguished from neutrons and multiple nucleon events. Using this marker, the strange quark contribution to the neutral-current axial vector form factor at Q(2) - 0, Delta s, is found to be Delta s = 0.08 +/- 0.26.
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