PT Journal
AU T2K Collaboration (Abe, Kea
   Cervera-Villanueva, A
   Escudero, L
   Gomez-Cadenas, JJ
   Monfregola, L
   Sorel, M
   Stamoulis, P
TI Measurement of the inclusive nu(mu) charged current cross section on carbon in the near detector of the T2K experiment
SO Physical Review D
JI Phys. Rev. D
PY 2013
BP 092003
EP 20pp
VL 87
IS 9
DI 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.092003
LA English
AB T2K has performed the first measurement of nu(mu) inclusive charged current interactions on carbon at neutrino energies of similar to 1 GeV where the measurement is reported as a flux-averaged double differential cross section in muon momentum and angle. The flux is predicted by the beam Monte Carlo and external data, including the results from the NA61/SHINE experiment. The data used for this measurement were taken in 2010 and 2011, with a total of 10.8 x 10(19) protons-on-target. The analysis is performed on 4485 inclusive charged current interaction candidates selected in the most upstream fine-grained scintillator detector of the near detector. The flux-averaged total cross section is <sigma(CC)>(phi) = (6.91 +/- 0.13(stat) +/- 0.84(syst)) x 10(-39) cm(2)/nucleon for a mean neutrino energy of 0.85 GeV.
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