First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielastic-like $ν_μ$-Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector
Creators: name: Abratenko, P.
name: Alrashed, M.
name: An, R.
name: Anthony, J.
name: Asaadi, J.
name: Ashkenazi, A.
name: Balasubramanian, S.
name: Baller, B.
name: Barnes, C.
name: Barr, G.
name: Basque, V.
name: Bathe-Peters, L.
name: Rodrigues, O. Benevides
name: Berkman, S.
name: Bhanderi, A.
name: Bhat, A.
name: Bishai, M.
name: Blake, A.
name: Bolton, T.
name: Camilleri, L.
name: Caratelli, D.
name: Terrazas, I. Caro
name: Fernandez, R. Castillo
name: Cavanna, F.
name: Cerati, G.
name: Chen, Y.
name: Church, E.
name: Cianci, D.
name: Cohen, E. O.
name: Conrad, J. M.
name: Convery, M.
name: Cooper-Troendle, L.
name: Crespo-Anadon, J. I.
name: Del Tutto, M.
name: Devitt, D.
name: Diurba, R.
name: Domine, L.
name: Dorrill, R.
name: Duffy, K.
name: Dytman, S.
name: Eberly, B.
name: Ereditato, A.
name: Sanchez, L. Escudero
name: Evans, J. J.
name: Aguirre, G. A. Fiorentini
name: Fitzpatrick, R. S.
name: Fleming, B. T.
name: Foppiani, N.
name: Franco, D.
name: Furmanski, A. P.
name: Garcia-Gamez, D.
name: Gardiner, S.
name: Gollapinni, S.
name: Goodwin, O.
name: Gramellini, E.
name: Green, P.
name: Greenlee, H.
name: Gu, L.
name: Gu, W.
name: Guenette, R.
name: Guzowski, P.
name: Hall, E.
name: Hamilton, P.
name: Hen, O.
name: Horton-Smith, G. A.
name: Hourlier, A.
name: Huang, E. -C.
name: Itay, R.
name: James, C.
name: de Vries, J. Jan
name: Ji, X.
name: Jiang, L.
name: Jo, J. H.
name: Johnson, R. A.
name: Jwa, Y. -J.
name: Kamp, N.
name: Karagiorgi, G.
name: Ketchum, W.
name: Kirby, B.
name: Kirby, M.
name: Kobilarcik, T.
name: Kreslo, I.
name: LaZur, R.
name: Lepetic, I.
name: Li, K.
name: Li, Y.
name: Littlejohn, B. R.
name: Lorca, D.
name: Louis, W. C.
name: Luo, X.
name: Marchionni, A.
name: Marcocci, S.
name: Marsden, C. Mariani D.
name: Marshall, J.
name: Martin-Albo, J.
name: Caicedo, D. A. Martinez
name: Mason, K.
name: Mastbaum, A.
name: McConkey, N.
name: Meddage, V.
name: Mettler, T.
name: Miller, K.
name: Mills, J.
name: Mistry, K.
name: Mogan, A.
name: Mohayai, T.
name: Moon, J.
name: Mooney, M.
name: Moor, A. F.
name: Moore, C. D.
name: Mousseau, J.
name: Murphy, M.
name: Naples, D.
name: Navrer-Agasson, A.
name: Neely, R. K.
name: Nienaber, P.
name: Nowak, J.
name: Palamara, O.
name: Paolone, V.
name: Papadopoulou, A.
name: Papavassiliou, V.
name: Pate, S. F.
name: Paudel, A.
name: Pavlovic, Z.
name: Piasetzky, E.
name: Ponce-Pinto, I. D.
name: Porzio, D.
name: Prince, S.
name: Qian, X.
name: Raaf, J. L.
name: Radeka, V.
name: Rafique, A.
name: Reggiani-Guzzo, M.
name: Ren, L.
name: Rochester, L.
name: Rondon, J. Rodriguez
name: Rogers, H. E.
name: Rosenberg, M.
name: Ross-Lonergan, M.
name: Russell, B.
name: Scanavini, G.
name: Schmitz, D. W.
name: Schukraft, A.
name: Shaevitz, M. H.
name: Sharankova, R.
name: Sinclair, J.
name: Smith, A.
name: Snider, E. L.
name: Soderberg, M.
name: Soldner-Rembold, S.
name: Spentzouris, P.
name: Spitz, J.
name: Stancari, M.
name: John, J. St.
name: Strauss, T.
name: Sutton, K.
name: Sword-Fehlberg, S.
name: Szelc, A. M.
name: Tagg, N.
name: Tang, W.
name: Terao, K.
name: Thornton, R. T.
name: Thorpe, C.
name: Toups, M.
name: Tsai, Y. -T.
name: Tufanli, S.
name: Uchida, M. A.
name: Usher, T.
name: Van De Pontseele, W.
name: Van de Water, R. G.
name: Viren, B.
name: Weber, M.
name: Wei, H.
name: Williams, Z.
name: Wolbers, S.
name: Wongjirad, T.
name: Wospakrik, M.
name: Wu, W.
name: Yang, T.
name: Yarbrough, G.
name: Yates, L. E.
name: Zeller, G. P.
name: Zennamo, J.
name: Zhang, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the first measurement of flux-integrated single differential cross sections for charged-current (CC) muon neutrino ($ν_μ$) scattering on argon with a muon and a proton in the final state, $^{40}$Ar($ν_μ$,$μ$p)X. The measurement was carried out using the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber detector with an exposure of 4.59 $\times$ 10$^{19}$ protons on target. Events are selected to enhance the contribution of CC quasielastic (CCQE) interactions. The data are reported in terms of a total cross section as well as single differential cross sections in final state muon and proton kinematics. We measure the integrated per-nucleus CCQE-like cross section (i.e. for interactions leading to a muon, one proton and no pions above detection threshold) of (4.93 $\pm$ 0.76stat $\pm$ 1.29sys) $\times$ 10$^{-38}$cm$^2$, in good agreement with theoretical calculations. The single differential cross sections are also in overall good agreement with theoretical predictions, except at very forward muon scattering angles that correspond to low momentum-transfer events.
description: Accepted for publication in PRL. 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table and online supplementary materials