PT Journal
AU MiniBooNE Collaboration (Aguilar-Arevalo, AAea
   Sorel, M
TI Measurement of the neutrino neutral-current elastic differential cross section on mineral oil at E-nu similar to 1 GeV
SO Physical Review D
JI Phys. Rev. D
PY 2010
BP 092005
EP 16pp
VL 82
IS 9
DI 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.092005
LA English
AB We report a measurement of the flux-averaged neutral-current elastic differential cross section for neutrinos scattering on mineral oil (CH2) as a function of four-momentum transferred squared, Q(2). It is obtained by measuring the kinematics of recoiling nucleons with kinetic energy greater than 50 MeV which are readily detected in MiniBooNE. This differential cross-section distribution is fit with fixed nucleon form factors apart from an axial mass M-A that provides a best fit for M-A = 1.39 +/- 0.11 GeV. Using the data from the charged-current neutrino interaction sample, a ratio of neutral-current to charged-current quasielastic cross sections as a function of Q(2) has been measured. Additionally, single protons with kinetic energies above 350 MeV can be distinguished from neutrons and multiple nucleon events. Using this marker, the strange quark contribution to the neutral-current axial vector form factor at Q(2) – 0, Delta s, is found to be Delta s = 0.08 +/- 0.26.
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