Hovedsiden > Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA |
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Report number | arXiv:2107.01059 ; FERMILAB-PUB-21-312-E-SCD |
Title | Constraining the NuMI neutrino flux using inverse muon decay reactions in MINERvA |
Author(s) |
Ruterbories, D. (Rochester U.) ; Dar, Z. Ahmad (Aligarh Muslim U. ; William-Mary Coll.) ; Akbar, F. (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Ascencio, M.V. (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) ; Bashyal, A. (Oregon State U.) ; Bercellie, A. (Rochester U.) ; Betancourt, M. (Fermilab) ; Bodek, A. (Rochester U.) ; Bonilla, J.L. (Guanajuato U.) ; Bravar, A. (CERN) ; Budd, H. (Rochester U.) ; Caceres, G. (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) ; Cai, T. (Rochester U.) ; Carneiro, M.F. (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF ; Oregon State U.) ; DÍaz, G.A. (Rochester U.) ; da Motta, H. (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) ; Felix, J. (Guanajuato U.) ; Fields, L. (Notre Dame U.) ; Filkins, A. (William-Mary Coll.) ; Fine, R. (Rochester U.) ; Gago, A.M. (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) ; Gallagher, H. (Tufts U.) ; Ghosh, A. (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF ; Santa Maria U., Valparaiso) ; Gran, R. (Minnesota U., Duluth) ; Harris, D.A. (York U., Canada ; Fermilab) ; Henry, S. (Rochester U.) ; Jena, D. (Fermilab) ; Jena, S. (IISER, Mohali) ; Kleykamp, J. (Rochester U.) ; Kordosky, M. (William-Mary Coll.) ; Last, D. (Pennsylvania U.) ; Le, T. (Rutgers U., Piscataway ; Tufts U.) ; Lozano, A. (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) ; Lu, X.-G. (Oxford U.) ; Maher, E. (MIT) ; Manly, S. (Rochester U.) ; Mann, W.A. (Tufts U.) ; Mauger, C. (Pennsylvania U.) ; McFarland, K.S. (Rochester U.) ; McGowan, A.M. (Rochester U.) ; Messerly, B. (Pittsburgh U.) ; Miller, J. (Santa Maria U., Valparaiso) ; Morfín, J.G. (Fermilab) ; Naples, D. (MIT) ; Nelson, J.K. (William-Mary Coll.) ; Nguyen, C. (Pittsburgh U.) ; Norrick, A. (William-Mary Coll.) ; Olivier, A. (Rochester U.) ; Paolone, V. (Pittsburgh U.) ; Perdue, G.N. (Rochester U. ; Fermilab) ; Plows, K.-J. (Oxford U.) ; Ramírez, M.A. (Pennsylvania U. ; Guanajuato U.) ; Ray, H. (Florida U.) ; Schellman, H. (Oregon State U.) ; Salinas, C.J. Solano (UNI, Lima) ; Su, H. (Pittsburgh U.) ; Sultana, M. (Rochester U.) ; Syrotenko, V.S. (Tufts U.) ; Valencia, E. (William-Mary Coll. ; Guanajuato U.) ; Vaughan, N.H. (Oregon State U.) ; Waldron, A.V. (Imperial Coll., London) ; Yaeggy, B. (Santa Maria U., Valparaiso) ; Yang, K. (Oxford U.) ; Zazueta, L. (William-Mary Coll.) |
Publication | 2021-11-01 |
Imprint | 2021-07-02 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Note | 9 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Physical Review D. Minor corrections and clarifications |
In: | Phys. Rev. D 104, 9 (2021) pp.092010 |
DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.092010 (publication) 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.092010 (publication) |
Subject category | hep-ex ; Particle Physics - Experiment |
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | FNAL E 0938 |
Abstract | Inverse muon decay, $\nu_\mu e^-\to\mu^-\nu_e$, is a reaction whose cross-section can be predicted with very small uncertainties. It has a neutrino energy threshold of $\approx 11$ GeV and can be used to constrain the high-energy part of the flux in the NuMI neutrino beam. This reaction is the dominant source of events which only contain high-energy muons nearly parallel to the direction of the neutrino beam. We have isolated a sample of hundreds of such events in neutrino and anti-neutrino enhanced beams, and have constrained the predicted high-energy flux. |
Copyright/License | preprint: (License: CC BY 4.0) publication: Published by the American Physical Society (License: CC BY 4.0) |