A study of quasi-elastic muon neutrino and antineutrino scattering in the NOMAD experiment

V Lyubushkin; B Popov; JJ Kim; L Camilleri; J-M Levy; M Mezzetto; D Naumov; S Alekhin; P Astier; D Autiero; A Baldisseri; M Baldo-Ceolin; M Banner; G Bassompierre; K Benslama; N Besson; I Bird; B Blumenfeld; F Bobisut; J Bouchez; S Boyd; A Bueno; S Bunyatov; A Cardini; PW Cattaneo; V Cavasinni; A Cervera-Villanueva; R Challis; A Chukanov; G Collazuol; G Conforto; C Conta; M Contalbrigo; R Cousins; D Daniels; H Degaudenzi; T Del Prete; A De Santo; T Dignan; L Di Lella; E do Couto e Silva; J Dumarchez; M Ellis; GJ Feldman; R Ferrari; D Ferrere; V Flaminio; M Fraternali; J-M Gaillard; E Gangler; A Geiser; D Geppert; D Gibin; S Gninenko; A Godley; J-J Gomez-Cadenas; J Gosset; C Goessling; M Gouanere; A Grant; G Graziani; A Guglielmi; C Hagner; J Hernando; D Hubbard; P Hurst; N Hyett; E Iacopini; C Joseph; F Juget; N Kent; M Kirsanov; O Klimov; J Kokkonen; A Kovzelev; A Krasnoperov; S Kulagin; D Kustov; S Lacaprara; C Lachaud; B Lakic; A Lanza; L La Rotonda; M Laveder; A Letessier-Selvon; J Ling; L Linssen; A Ljubicic; J Long; A Lupi; A Marchionni; F Martelli; X Mechain; J-P Mendiburu; J-P Meyer; SR Mishra; GF Moorhead; P Nedelec; Yu Nefedov; C Nguyen-Mau; D Orestano; F Pastore; LS Peak; E Pennacchio; H Pessard; R Petti; A Placci; G Polesello; D Pollmann; A Polyarush; C Poulsen; L Rebuffi; J Rico; P Riemann; C Roda; A Rubbia; F Salvatore; O Samoylov; K Schahmaneche; B Schmidt; T Schmidt; A Sconza; M Seaton; M Sevior; D Sillou; FJP Soler; G Sozzi; D Steele; U Stiegler; M Stipcevic; Th Stolarczyk; M Tareb-Reyes; GN Taylor; V Tereshchenko; A Toropin; A-M Touchard; SN Tovey; M-T Tran; E Tsesmelis; J Ulrichs; L Vacavant; M Valdata-Nappi; V Valuev; F Vannucci; KE Varvell; M Veltri; V Vercesi; G Vidal-Sitjes; J-M Vieira; T Vinogradova; FV Weber; T Weisse; FF Wilson; LJ Winton; Q Wu; BD Yabsley; H Zaccone; K Zuber; P Zuccon

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A study of quasi-elastic muon neutrino and antineutrino scattering in the NOMAD experiment

V Lyubushkin, B Popov, JJ Kim, L Camilleri, J-M Levy, M Mezzetto, D Naumov, S Alekhin, P Astier, D Autiero, A Baldisseri, M Baldo-Ceolin, M Banner, G Bassompierre, K Benslama, N Besson, I Bird, B Blumenfeld, F Bobisut, J Bouchez Show all

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | SPRINGER | Published : 2009

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1113-0

Abstract

We have studied the muon neutrino and antineutrino quasi-elastic (QEL) scattering reactions (ν μn → μ-p and ̄νp → μ+n) using a set of experimental data collected by the NOMAD Collaboration. We have performed measurements of the cross-section of these processes on a nuclear target (mainly carbon) normalizing it to the total ν μ (̄%nu;) charged-current cross section. The results for the flux-averaged QEL cross sections in the (anti)neutrino energy interval 3-100 GeV are 〈σqel 〉νμ =(0.92±0.02(stat)±0.06(syst)) ×10-38cm2 and 〈σqel〉 ̄νμ =(0.81±0.05(stat)±0.09(syst)) ×10-38cm2 for neutrino and antineutrino, respectively. The axial mass parameter M A was extracted from the measured quasi-elastic ne..

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