Differential cross section measurement of charged current $\nu_{e}$ interactions without final-state pions in MicroBooNE
Abstract
In this letter we present the first measurements of an exclusive electron neutrino cross section with the MicroBooNE experiment using data from the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab. These measurements are made for a selection of charged-current electron neutrinos without final-state pions. Differential cross sections are extracted in energy and angle with respect to the beam for the electron and the leading proton. The differential cross section as a function of proton energy is measured using events with protons both above and below the visibility threshold. This is done by including a separate selection of electron neutrino events without reconstructed proton candidates in addition to those with proton candidates. Results are compared to the predictions from several modern generators, and we find the data agrees well with these models. The data shows best agreement, as quantified by -value, with the generators that predict a lower overall cross section, such as GENIE v3 and NuWro.
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@article{arxiv.2208.02348,
title = {Differential cross section measurement of charged current $\nu_{e}$ interactions without final-state pions in MicroBooNE},
author = {MicroBooNE collaboration and P. Abratenko and J. Anthony and L. Arellano and J. Asaadi and A. Ashkenazi and S. Balasubramanian and B. Baller and C. Barnes and G. Barr and J. Barrow and V. Basque and L. Bathe-Peters and O. Benevides Rodrigues and S. Berkman and A. Bhanderi and M. Bhattacharya and M. Bishai and A. Blake and B. Bogart and T. Bolton and J. Y. Book and L. Camilleri and D. Caratelli and I. Caro Terrazas and F. Cavanna and G. Cerati and Y. Chen and J. M. Conrad and M. Convery and L. Cooper-Troendle and J. I. Crespo-Anadon and M. Del Tutto and S. R. Dennis and P. Detje and A. Devitt and R. Diurba and R. Dorrill and K. Duffy and S. Dytman and B. Eberly and A. Ereditato and J. J. Evans and R. Fine and O. G. Finnerud and B. T. Fleming and N. Foppiani and W. Foreman and D. Franco and A. P. Furmanski and D. Garcia-Gamez and S. Gardiner and G. Ge and S. Gollapinni and O. Goodwin and E. Gramellini and P. Green and H. Greenlee and W. Gu and R. Guenette and P. Guzowski and L. Hagaman and O. Hen and R. Hicks and C. Hilgenberg and G. A. Horton-Smith and B. Irwin and R. Itay and C. James and X. Ji and L. Jiang and J. H. Jo and R. A. Johnson and Y. J. Jwa and D. Kalra and N. Kamp and G. Karagiorgi and W. Ketchum and M. Kirby and T. Kobilarcik and I. Kreslo and M. B. Leibovitch and I. Lepetic and J. -Y. Li and K. Li and Y. Li and K. Lin and B. R. Littlejohn and W. C. Louis and X. Luo and K. Manivannan and C. Mariani and D. Marsden and J. Marshall and D. A. Martinez Caicedo and K. Mason and A. Mastbaum and N. McConkey and V. Meddage and K. Miller and J. Mills and K. Mistry and T. Mohayai and A. Mogan and M. Mooney and A. F. Moor and C. D. Moore and L. Mora Lepin and J. Mousseau and S. Mulleria Babu and D. Naples and A. Navrer-Agasson and N. Nayak and M. Nebot-Guinot and D. A. Newmark and J. Nowak and M. Nunes and N. Oza and O. Palamara and N. Pallat and V. Paolone and A. Papadopoulou and V. Papavassiliou and H. Parkinson and S. F. Pate and N. Patel and Z. Pavlovic and E. Piasetzky and I. Ponce-Pinto and S. Prince and X. Qian and J. L. Raaf and V. Radeka and M. Reggiani-Guzzo and L. Ren and L. Rochester and J. Rodriguez Rondon and M. Rosenberg and M. Ross-Lonergan and C. Rudolph von Rohr and G. Scanavini and D. W. Schmitz and A. Schukraft and W. Seligman and M. H. Shaevitz and R. Sharankova and J. Shi and A. Smith and E. L. Snider and M. Soderberg and S. Soldner-Rembold and J. Spitz and M. Stancari and J. St. John and T. Strauss and S. Sword-Fehlberg and A. M. Szelc and W. Tang and N. Taniuchi and K. Terao and C. Thorpe and D. Torbunov and D. Totani and M. Toups and Y. -T. Tsai and J. Tyler and M. A. Uchida and T. Usher and B. Viren and M. Weber and H. Wei and A. J. White and Z. Williams and S. Wolbers and T. Wongjirad and M. Wospakrik and K. Wresilo and N. Wright and W. Wu and E. Yandel and T. Yang and L. E. Yates and H. W. Yu and G. P. Zeller and J. Zennamo and C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.02348},
year = {2022}
}