Measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current interaction cross section by observing nuclear deexcitation $γ$ rays
Creators: name: Abe, K.
name: Adam, J.
name: Aihara, H.
name: Akiri, T.
name: Andreopoulos, C.
name: Aoki, S.
name: Ariga, A.
name: Ariga, T.
name: Assylbekov, S.
name: Autiero, D.
name: Barbi, M.
name: Barker, G. J.
name: Barr, G.
name: Bass, M.
name: Batkiewicz, M.
name: Bay, F.
name: Bentham, S. W.
name: Berardi, V.
name: Berger, B. E.
name: Berkman, S.
name: Bertram, I.
name: Bhadra, S.
name: Blaszczyk, F. d. M.
name: Blondel, A.
name: Bojechko, C.
name: Bordoni, S.
name: Boyd, S. B.
name: Brailsford, D.
name: Bravar, A.
name: Bronner, C.
name: Buchanan, N.
name: Calland, R. G.
name: Rodríguez, J. Caravaca
name: Cartwright, S. L.
name: Castillo, R.
name: Catanesi, M. G.
name: Cervera, A.
name: Cherdack, D.
name: Christodoulou, G.
name: Clifton, A.
name: Coleman, J.
name: Coleman, S. J.
name: Collazuol, G.
name: Connolly, K.
name: Cremonesi, L.
name: Dabrowska, A.
name: Danko, I.
name: Das, R.
name: Davis, S.
name: de Perio, P.
name: De Rosa, G.
name: Dealtry, T.
name: Dennis, S. R.
name: Densham, C.
name: Dewhurst, D.
name: Di Lodovico, F.
name: Di Luise, S.
name: Drapier, O.
name: Duboyski, T.
name: Duffy, K.
name: Dufour, F.
name: Dumarchez, J.
name: Dytman, S.
name: Dziewiecki, M.
name: Emery-Schrenk, S.
name: Ereditato, A.
name: Escudero, L.
name: Finch, A. J.
name: Aguirre, G. A. Fiorentini
name: Friend, M.
name: Fujii, Y.
name: Fukuda, Y.
name: Furmanski, A. P.
name: Galymov, V.
name: Gaudin, A.
name: Giffin, S.
name: Giganti, C.
name: Gilje, K.
name: Goeldi, D.
name: Golan, T.
name: Gomez-Cadenas, J. J.
name: Gonin, M.
name: Grant, N.
name: Gudin, D.
name: Hadley, D. R.
name: Haegel, L.
name: Haesler, A.
name: Haigh, M. D.
name: Hamilton, P.
name: Hansen, D.
name: Hara, T.
name: Hartz, M.
name: Hasegawa, T.
name: Hastings, N. C.
name: Hayato, Y.
name: Hearty, C.
name: Helmer, R. L.
name: Hierholzer, M.
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name: Hillairet, A.
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name: Hirota, S.
name: Holeczek, J.
name: Horikawa, S.
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name: Ieki, K.
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name: Ishida, T.
name: Ishii, T.
name: Ives, S. J.
name: Iwai, E.
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name: Izmaylov, A.
name: Jacob, A.
name: Jamieson, B.
name: Johnson, R. A.
name: Johnson, S.
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name: Jonsson, P.
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name: Kabirnezhad, M.
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name: Kakuno, H.
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name: Kanazawa, Y.
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name: Khotjantsev, A.
name: Kielczewska, D.
name: Kikawa, T.
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name: Guerra, E. S. Pinzon
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name: Takahashi, S.
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name: Yokoyama, M.
name: Yuan, T.
name: Yu, M.
name: Zalewska, A.
name: Zalipska, J.
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name: Zimmerman, E. D.
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name: Żmuda, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielastic (NCQE) cross section. It is obtained by observing nuclear deexcitation $γ$-rays which follow neutrino-oxygen interactions at the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector. We use T2K data corresponding to $3.01 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target. By selecting only events during the T2K beam window and with well-reconstructed vertices in the fiducial volume, the large background rate from natural radioactivity is dramatically reduced. We observe 43 events in the $4-30$ MeV reconstructed energy window, compared with an expectation of 51.0, which includes an estimated 16.2 background events. The background is primarily nonquasielastic neutral-current interactions and has only 1.2 events from natural radioactivity. The flux-averaged NCQE cross section we measure is $1.55 \times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$ with a 68\% confidence interval of $(1.22, 2.20) \times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$ at a median neutrino energy of 630 MeV, compared with the theoretical prediction of $2.01 \times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures