First simultaneous measurement of differential muon-neutrino charged-current cross sections on argon for final states with and without protons using MicroBooNE data
Abstract
We report the first double-differential neutrino-argon cross section measurement made simultaneously for final states with and without protons for the inclusive muon neutrino charged-current interaction channel. The proton kinematics of this channel are further explored with a differential cross section measurement as a function of the leading proton's kinetic energy that extends across the detection threshold. These measurements utilize data collected using the MicroBooNE detector from 6.4 protons on target from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam with a mean neutrino energy of 0.8 GeV. Extensive data-driven model validation utilizing the conditional constraint formalism is employed. This motivates enlarging the uncertainties with an empirical reweighting approach to minimize the possibility of extracting biased cross section results. The extracted nominal flux-averaged cross sections are compared to widely used event generator predictions revealing severe mismodeling of final states without protons for muon neutrino charged-current interactions, possibly from insufficient treatment of final state interactions. These measurements provide a wealth of new information useful for improving event generators which will enhance the sensitivity of precision measurements in neutrino experiments.
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@article{arxiv.2402.19281,
title = {First simultaneous measurement of differential muon-neutrino charged-current cross sections on argon for final states with and without protons using MicroBooNE data},
author = {MicroBooNE collaboration and P. Abratenko and O. Alterkait and D. Andrade Aldana and L. Arellano and J. Asaadi and A. Ashkenazi and S. Balasubramanian and B. Baller and G. Barr and D. Barrow and J. Barrow and V. Basque and O. Benevides Rodrigues and S. Berkman and A. Bhanderi and A. Bhat and M. Bhattacharya and M. Bishai and A. Blake and B. Bogart and T. Bolton and J. Y. Book and M. B. Brunetti and L. Camilleri and Y. Cao and D. Caratelli and F. Cavanna and G. Cerati and A. Chappell and Y. Chen and J. M. Conrad and M. Convery and L. Cooper-Troendle and J. I. Crespo-Anadon and R. Cross and M. Del Tutto and S. R. Dennis and P. Detje and A. Devitt and R. Diurba and Z. Djurcic and R. Dorrill and K. Duffy and S. Dytman and B. Eberly and P. Englezos and A. Ereditato and J. J. Evans and R. Fine and O. G. Finnerud and B. T. Fleming and W. Foreman and D. Franco and A. P. Furmanski and F. Gao and D. Garcia-Gamez and S. Gardiner and G. Ge and S. Gollapinni and E. Gramellini and P. Green and H. Greenlee and L. Gu and W. Gu and R. Guenette and P. Guzowski and L. Hagaman and O. Hen and C. Hilgenberg and G. A. Horton-Smith and Z. Imani and B. Irwin and M. S. Ismail and C. James and X. Ji 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 H. Liu and W. C. Louis and X. Luo and C. Mariani and D. Marsden and J. Marshall and N. Martinez and D. A. Martinez Caicedo and S. Martynenko and A. Mastbaum and I. Mawby and N. McConkey and V. Meddage and J. Micallef and K. Miller 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 M. M. Moudgalya and S. Mulleria Babu and D. Naples and A. Navrer-Agasson and N. Nayak and M. Nebot-Guinot and J. Nowak 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. Pophale and X. Qian and J. L. Raaf and V. Radeka and A. Rafique 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 I. Safa and G. Scanavini and D. W. Schmitz and A. Schukraft and W. Seligman and M. H. Shaevitz and R. Sharankova and J. Shi 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 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 S. Wolbers and T. Wongjirad and M. Wospakrik and K. Wresilo 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:2402.19281},
year = {2024}
}