Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Journal Title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Pub Date
4-14-2017
Volume
95
Issue
7
Abstract
We present measurements of the neutrino and antineutrino total charged-current cross sections on carbon and their ratio using the MINERvA scintillator-tracker. The measurements span the energy range 2-22 GeV and were performed using forward and reversed horn focusing modes of the Fermilab low-energy NuMI beam to obtain large neutrino and antineutrino samples. The flux is obtained using a subsample of charged-current events at low hadronic energy transfer along with precise higher energy external neutrino cross section data overlapping with our energy range between 12-22 GeV. We also report on the antineutrino-neutrino cross section ratio, R-CC, which does not rely on external normalization information. Our ratio measurement, obtained within the same experiment using the same technique, benefits from the cancellation of common sample systematic uncertainties and reaches a precision of similar to 5% at low energy. Our results for the antineutrino-nucleus scattering cross section and for RCC are the most precise to date in the energy range E-v < 6 GeV.
Recommended Citation
Ren, L.; Eberly, B.; Kleykamp, J.; McGivern, C. L.; Morfin, J. G.; and et al., Measurement of the antineutrino to neutrino charged-current interaction cross section ratio in MINERvA (2017). PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 95(7).
10.1103/PhysRevD.95.072009
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.95.072009
