Measurement of the \(\nu_{\mu}\) charged current quasi-elastic cross-section on carbon with the T2K on-axis neutrino beam

• Published in: arXiv.org 2015-06
• Main Authors: Abe, K, Aihara, H, Aoki, S, Barbi, M, Barker, G J, Bass, M, Batkiewicz, M, Bay, F, Berardi, V, Berger, B E, Bordoni, S, Bravar, A, Castillo, R, Catanesi, M G, Coleman, J, Dewhurst, D, F Di Lodovico, Galymov, V, Garcia, A, Gilje, K, Haesler, A, Hara, T, Hasegawa, T, Hayashino, T, Hearty, C, Hierholzer, M, Hignight, J, Himmel, A, Hirota, S, Holeczek, J, Huang, K, Ichikawa, A K, Imber, J, Izmaylov, A, Jonsson, P, Kabirnezhad, M, Kaboth, A C, Kakuno, H, Kameda, J, Katori, T, Kielczewska, D, Kitching, P, Kobayashi, T, Kropp, W, Lagoda, J, Lamont, I, Lawe, M, Longhin, A, Malek, M, Manly, S, Marteau, J, Martynenko, S, Maruyama, T, McGrew, C, Mefodiev, A, Miller, C A, Minamino, A, Moriyama, S, Mueller, Th A, Murdoch, M, Murphy, S, Nakadaira, T, Nakahata, M, Nakaya, T, Nantais, C, Nishikawa, K, Nowak, J, Ohta, R, Okumura, K, Okusawa, T, Owen, R A, Pickard, L, Pinzon Guerra, E S, Pistillo, C, Popov, B, Quilain, B, Reeves, M, Rubbia, A, Ruterbories, D, Shiozawa, M, Short, S, Sinclair, P, Sobczyk, J T, Sobel, H, Southwell, L, Suda, Y, Takeuchi, Y, Thompson, L F, Tobayama, S, Tsukamoto, T, Vacheret, A, Vasseur, G, Weber, A, Williamson, Z, Yamamoto, K, Yanagisawa, C, Yano, T, Yershov, N, M Yu, Zambelli, L
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Carbon; Experiments; Interaction models; Neutrino beams; Neutrinos; Nuclear cross sections; Nuclear models; Particle physics
• ISSN: 2331-8422
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.07452

We report a measurement of the \(\nu_\mu\) charged current quasi-elastic cross-sections on carbon in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam. The measured charged current quasi-elastic cross-sections on carbon at mean neutrino energies of 1.94 GeV and 0.93 GeV are \((11.95\pm 0.19(stat.)_{-1.47}^{+1.82} (syst.))\times 10^{-39}\mathrm{cm}^2/\mathrm{neutron}\) and \((10.64\pm 0.37(stat.)_{-1.65}^{+2.03} (syst.))\times 10^{-39}\mathrm{cm}^2/\mathrm{neutron}\), respectively. These results agree well with the predictions of neutrino interaction models. In addition, we investigated the effects of the nuclear model and the multi-nucleon interaction.