Measurement of the ratio of the numu charged-current single-pion production to quasielastic scattering with a 0.8 GeV neutrino beam on mineral oil

A A Aguilar-Arevalo; C E Anderson; A O Bazarko; S J Brice; B C Brown; L Bugel; J Cao; L Coney; J M Conrad; D C Cox; A Curioni; Z Djurcic; D A Finley; B T Fleming; R Ford; F G Garcia; G T Garvey; C Green; J A Green; T L Hart; E Hawker; R Imlay; R A Johnson; G Karagiorgi; P Kasper; T Katori; T Kobilarcik; I Kourbanis; S Koutsoliotas; E M Laird; S K Linden; J M Link; Y Liu; Y Liu; W C Louis; K B M Mahn; W Marsh; V T McGary; G McGregor; W Metcalf; P D Meyers; F Mills; G B Mills; J Monroe; C D Moore; R H Nelson; P Nienaber; J A Nowak; B Osmanov; S Ouedraogo; R B Patterson; D Perevalov; C C Polly; E Prebys; J L Raaf; H Ray; B P Roe; A D Russell; V Sandberg; R Schirato; D Schmitz; M H Shaevitz; F C Shoemaker; D Smith; M Soderberg; M Sorel; P Spentzouris; J Spitz; I Stancu; R J Stefanski; M Sung; H A Tanaka; R Tayloe; M Tzanov; R Van de Water; M O Wascko; D H White; M J Wilking; H J Yang; G P Zeller; E D Zimmerman; MiniBooNE Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.081801

Measurement of the ratio of the numu charged-current single-pion production to quasielastic scattering with a 0.8 GeV neutrino beam on mineral oil

Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Aug 21;103(8):081801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.081801. Epub 2009 Aug 17.

Authors

A A Aguilar-Arevalo¹, C E Anderson, A O Bazarko, S J Brice, B C Brown, L Bugel, J Cao, L Coney, J M Conrad, D C Cox, A Curioni, Z Djurcic, D A Finley, B T Fleming, R Ford, F G Garcia, G T Garvey, C Green, J A Green, T L Hart, E Hawker, R Imlay, R A Johnson, G Karagiorgi, P Kasper, T Katori, T Kobilarcik, I Kourbanis, S Koutsoliotas, E M Laird, S K Linden, J M Link, Y Liu, Y Liu, W C Louis, K B M Mahn, W Marsh, V T McGary, G McGregor, W Metcalf, P D Meyers, F Mills, G B Mills, J Monroe, C D Moore, R H Nelson, P Nienaber, J A Nowak, B Osmanov, S Ouedraogo, R B Patterson, D Perevalov, C C Polly, E Prebys, J L Raaf, H Ray, B P Roe, A D Russell, V Sandberg, R Schirato, D Schmitz, M H Shaevitz, F C Shoemaker, D Smith, M Soderberg, M Sorel, P Spentzouris, J Spitz, I Stancu, R J Stefanski, M Sung, H A Tanaka, R Tayloe, M Tzanov, R Van de Water, M O Wascko, D H White, M J Wilking, H J Yang, G P Zeller, E D Zimmerman; MiniBooNE Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.

PMID: 19792715
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.081801

Abstract

Using high statistics samples of charged-current numu interactions, the MiniBooNE [corrected] Collaboration reports a measurement of the single-charged-pion production to quasielastic cross section ratio on mineral oil (CH2), both with and without corrections for hadron reinteractions in the target nucleus. The result is provided as a function of neutrino energy in the range 0.4 GeV<Enu<2.4 GeV with 11% precision in the region of highest statistics. The results are consistent with previous measurements and the prediction from historical neutrino calculations.