Paper

Measurement of electron neutrino CCQE-like cross-section in MINERvA

Wolcott, Jeremy, the MINERvA collaboration

2015

Overview

The electron-neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE) cross-section on nuclei is an important input parameter to appearance-type neutrino oscillation experiments. Current experiments typically work from the muon neutrino cross-section and apply corrections from theoretical arguments to obtain a prediction for the electron neutrino cross-section, but to date there has been no experimental verification of the estimates for this channel at an energy scale appropriate to such experiments. We present a preliminary result from the MINERvA experiment on the first measurement of an exclusive reaction in few-GeV electron neutrino interactions, namely, the cross-section for a CCQE-like process. The result is given both as differential cross-sections vs. the electron energy, electron angle, and \\(Q^{2}\\), as well as a total cross-section vs. neutrino energy.

• Publisher: Cornell University Library, arXiv.org
• Subject: Cross-sections / Electron energy / Experiments / Neutrinos