A precise measurement of the muon neutrino–nucleon inclusive charged current cross section off an isoscalar target in the energy range 2.5<Eν<40 GeV by NOMAD

• Published in: Physics letters. B 2008-02, Vol.660 (1-2), p.19-25
• Main Authors: Wu, Q., Mishra, S.R., Godley, A., Petti, R., Astier, P., Baldo-Ceolin, M., Banner, M., Benslama, K., Blumenfeld, B., Bobisut, F., Bouchez, J., Bueno, A., Camilleri, L., Cardini, A., Cattaneo, P.W., Cervera-Villanueva, A., Challis, R., Chukanov, A., Conta, C., Contalbrigo, M., Degaudenzi, H., Del Prete, T., Di Lella, L., do Couto e Silva, E., Dumarchez, J., Feldman, G.J., Fraternali, M., Geiser, A., Geppert, D., Gibin, D., Gninenko, S., Gosset, J., Gößling, C., Gouanère, M., Graziani, G., Guglielmi, A., Joseph, C., Kim, J.J., Klimov, O., Krasnoperov, A., Kulagin, S., Lachaud, C., Lakić, B., Laveder, M., Levy, J.-M., Ling, J., Linssen, L., Ljubič, A., Long, J., Lupi, A., Lyubushkin, V., Marchionni, A., Méchain, X., Mendiburu, J.-P., Meyer, J.-P., Mezzetto, M., Moorhead, G.F., Naumov, D., Nédélec, P., Nefedov, Yu, Nguyen-Mau, C., Placci, A., Polesello, G., Pollmann, D., Popov, B., Rebuffi, L., Rico, J., Riemann, P., Rubbia, A., Salvatore, F., Samoylov, O., Schahmaneche, K., Schmidt, B., Schmidt, T., Sconza, A., Sevior, M., Sillou, D., Soler, F.J.P., Sozzi, G., Stiegler, U., Stolarczyk, Th, Tareb-Reyes, M., Toropin, A., Touchard, A.-M., Tovey, S.N., Tran, M.-T., Ulrichs, J., Vacavant, L., Valdata-Nappi, M., Varvell, K.E., Veltri, M., Vercesi, V., Vidal-Sitjes, G., Vinogradova, T., Weisse, T., Winton, L.J., Yabsley, B.D., Zaccone, H., Zuber, K., Zuccon, P.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Inclusive neutrino–nucleon cross section
• ISSN: 0370-2693; 1873-2445
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.12.027

We present a measurement of the muon neutrino–nucleon inclusive charged current cross section, off an isoscalar target, in the neutrino energy range 2.5⩽Eν⩽40 GeV. The significance of this measurement is its precision, ±4% in 2.5⩽Eν⩽10 GeV, and ±2.6% in 10⩽Eν⩽40 GeV regions, where significant uncertainties in previous experiments still exist, and its importance to the current and proposed long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.