A study of quasi-elastic muon neutrino and antineutrino scattering in the NOMAD experiment

被引：188

作者：

Lyubushkin, V. ^{[7
]}

Popov, B. ^{[7
,17
,18
]}

Kim, J. J. ^{[25
]}

Camilleri, L. ^{[10
]}

Levy, J. -M. ^{[17
,18
]}

Mezzetto, M. ^{[15
,16
]}

Naumov, D. ^{[7
,8
,9
]}

Alekhin, S. ^{[31
]}

Astier, P. ^{[17
,18
]}

Autiero, D. ^{[10
]}

Baldisseri, A. ^{[24
]}

Baldo-Ceolin, M. ^{[15
,16
]}

Banner, M. ^{[17
,18
]}

Bassompierre, G. ^{[1
]}

Benslama, K. ^{[11
]}

Besson, N. ^{[24
]}

Bird, I. ^{[10
,11
]}

Blumenfeld, B. ^{[2
]}

Bobisut, F. ^{[15
,16
]}

Bouchez, J. ^{[24
]}

Boyd, S. ^{[26
]}

Bueno, A. ^{[3
,30
]}

Bunyatov, S. ^{[7
]}

Cardini, A. ^{[12
]}

Cattaneo, P. W. ^{[19
,20
]}

Cavasinni, V. ^{[21
,22
]}

Cervera-Villanueva, A. ^{[10
,28
]}

Challis, R. ^{[13
]}

Chukanov, A. ^{[7
]}

Collazuol, G. ^{[15
,16
]}

Conforto, G. ^{[9
,10
,27
]}

Conta, C. ^{[19
,20
]}

Contalbrigo, M. ^{[15
,16
]}

Cousins, R. ^{[12
]}

Daniels, D. ^{[3
]}

Degaudenzi, H. ^{[11
]}

Del Prete, T. ^{[21
,22
]}

De Santo, A. ^{[10
,21
,22
]}

Dignan, T. ^{[3
]}

Di Lella, L. ^{[10
]}

do Couto e Silva, E. ^{[10
]}

Dumarchez, J. ^{[17
,18
]}

Ellis, M. ^{[26
]}

Feldman, G. J. ^{[3
]}

Ferrari, R. ^{[19
,20
]}

Ferrere, D. ^{[10
]}

Flaminio, V. ^{[21
,22
]}

Fraternali, M. ^{[19
,20
]}

Gaillard, J. -M. ^{[1
]}

Gangler, E. ^{[10
,17
,18
]}

机构：

[1] LAPP, Annecy, France

[2] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD USA

[3] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[4] Univ Calabria, I-87036 Cosenza, Italy

[5] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Cosenza, Italy

[6] Univ Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

[7] Joint Inst Nucl Res Dubna, Dubna, Russia

[8] Univ Florence, Florence, Italy

[9] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-50125 Florence, Italy

[10] CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

[11] Univ Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

[12] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA

[13] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

[14] INR, Moscow, Russia

[15] Univ Padua, Padua, Italy

[16] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Padua, Italy

[17] Univ Paris 06, LPNHE, Paris, France

[18] Univ Paris 07, Paris, France

[19] Univ Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

[20] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

[21] Univ Pisa, Pisa, Italy

[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Pisa, Italy

[23] Roma Tre Univ, Rome, Italy

[24] CEA, DAPNIA, Saclay, France

[25] Univ S Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA

[26] Univ Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

[27] Univ Urbino, I-61029 Urbino, Italy

[28] IFIC, Valencia, Spain

[29] Rudjer Boskovic Inst, Zagreb, Croatia

[30] ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

[31] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino 142281, Moscow Region, Russia

[32] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Rome, Italy

来源：

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2009年 / 63卷 / 03期

关键词：

TRANSITION RADIATION DETECTOR; SINGLE PION-PRODUCTION; CURRENT CROSS-SECTION; VECTOR FORM-FACTOR; LUND MONTE-CARLO; BUBBLE-CHAMBER; ELECTROMAGNETIC CALORIMETER; PRECISE MEASUREMENT; JET FRAGMENTATION; HADRON-NUCLEUS;

D O I：

10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1113-0

中图分类号：

O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

We have studied the muon neutrino and antineutrino quasi-elastic (QEL) scattering reactions (v(mu)n -> mu(-)p and (v) over bar mu p -> mu(+)n) using a set of experimental data collected by the NOMAD Collaboration. We have performed measurements of the cross-section of these processes on a nuclear target (mainly carbon) normalizing it to the total v(mu) ((v) over bar mu) charged-current cross section. The results for the flux-averaged QEL cross sections in the (anti) neutrino energy interval 3-100 GeV are <sigma(qel)> v(mu) = (0.92 +/- 0.02(stat) +/- 0.06(syst)) x 10(-38) cm(2) and <sigma qel >(v) over bar (mu) = (0.81 +/- 0.05(stat) +/- 0.09(syst)) x 10(-38) cm(2) for neutrino and antineutrino, respectively. The axial mass parameter M(A) was extracted from the measured quasi-elastic neutrino cross section. The corresponding result is M(A) = 1.05 +/- 0.02(stat)+/- 0.06(syst) GeV. It is consistent with the axial mass values recalculated from the antineutrino cross section and extracted from the pure Q(2) shape analysis of the high purity sample of v(mu) quasi-elastic 2-track events, but has smaller systematic error and should be quoted as the main result of this work. Our measured MA is found to be in good agreement with the world average value obtained in previous deuterium filled bubble chamber experiments. The NOMAD measurement of MA is lower than those recently published by K2K and Mini-BooNE Collaborations. However, within the large errors quoted by these experiments on MA, these results are compatible with the more precise NOMAD value.

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页码：355 / 381

页数：27

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