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“…One year later C.S. Wu et al [7] carried out an experiment which conclusively established that parity was maximally violated in the nuclear beta-decay of 60 Co.…”

Section: The Electroweak Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After background subtraction MiniBooNE reported [60] a flux-averaged differential cross section in terms of momentum transferred squared to the nucleon, Q 2 QE , as illustrated in…”

Section: Miniboone Neutrino Neutral Current Elastic Cross Section Meamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…T i where we sum the true kinetic energies of all final state nucleons produced in the NCE interaction. The blue dotted line is the predicted spectrum of NCE-like background which has been subtracted out from the total NCE-like differential cross section [60].…”

Section: Miniboone Neutrino Neutral Current Elastic Cross Section Meamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In order to estimate the wrong sign (WS) background we refer to MiniBooNE's published measurement of the neutrino component in the antineutrino beam [107] to correct the WS flux and the measured NCE neutrino cross section [60] to correct the WS cross section. Of the two methods outlined above, method 2 utilizes the antineutrino CCQE scattering interaction.…”

Section: Estimation Of Neutrino Induced Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Antineutrino Neutral Current Interactions in MiniBooNE

Dharmapalan¹

2012

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This dissertation reports the antineutrino-nucleus neutral current elastic scattering cross section on CH 2 measured by the MiniBooNE experiment located in Batavia, IL. The data set consists of 60,605 events passing the selection cuts corresponding to 10.1 × 10 20 POT, which represents the world's largest sample of antineutrino neutral current elastic scattering events.The final sample is more than one order of magnitude lager that the previous antineutrino NCE scattering cross section measurement reported by the BNL E734 experiment. The measurement presented in this dissertation also spans a wider range in Q 2 , including the low-Q 2 regime where the cross section rollover is clearly visible.A χ 2 -based minimization was performed to determine the best value of the axial mass, M A and the Pauli blocking scaling function, κ that matches the antineutrino NCE scattering data. However, the best fit values of M A =1.29 GeV and κ=1.026 still give a relatively poor χ 2 , which suggests that the underlying nuclear model (based largely on the relativistic Fermi gas model) may not be an accurate representation for this particular interaction.Additionally, we present a measurement of the antineutrino/neutrino-nucleus NCE scattering cross section ratio. The neutrino mode NCE sample used in this study, corresponding to 6.4 × 10 20 POT, is also the world's largest sample (also by an order of magnitude). We have demonstrated that the ratio measurement is robust, as most of the correlated errors cancel, as expected. Furthermore, this ratio also proves to be rather insensitive to variations in the axial mass and the Pauli blocking parameter. This is the first time that this ratio has been experimentally reported. We believe this measurement will aid the theoretical physics community to test various model predictions of neutrino-nucleon/nucleus interactions.ii

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“…One year later C.S. Wu et al [7] carried out an experiment which conclusively established that parity was maximally violated in the nuclear beta-decay of 60 Co.…”

Section: The Electroweak Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After background subtraction MiniBooNE reported [60] a flux-averaged differential cross section in terms of momentum transferred squared to the nucleon, Q 2 QE , as illustrated in…”

Section: Miniboone Neutrino Neutral Current Elastic Cross Section Meamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Miniboone Neutrino Neutral Current Elastic Cross Section Meamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Estimation Of Neutrino Induced Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Antineutrino Neutral Current Interactions in MiniBooNE

Dharmapalan¹

2012

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“…The largest contribution to the total systematic error is expected to come from the uncertainties affecting the neutral-current deep-inelastic neutrino cross section, for which little experimental data is available [47]. For reference, the MiniBooNE collaboration recently measured the flux-averaged quasi-elastic neutral-current cross section with an integrated ∼ 20% uncertainty [49]. Similar uncertainties (at the 20-25% level) affect current measurements for neutral-current single-pion cross sections, see ref.…”

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Dark matter beams at LBNF

Coloma

Dobrescu

Frugiuele

et al. 2016

J. High Energ. Phys.

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High-intensity neutrino beam facilities may produce a beam of light dark matter when protons strike the target. Searches for such a dark matter beam using its scattering in a nearby detector must overcome the large neutrino background. We characterize the spatial and energy distributions of the dark matter and neutrino beams, focusing on their differences to enhance the sensitivity to dark matter. We find that a dark matter beam produced by a Z boson in the GeV mass range is both broader and more energetic than the neutrino beam. The reach for dark matter is maximized for a detector sensitive to hard neutral-current scatterings, placed at a sizable angle off the neutrino beam axis. In the case of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF), a detector placed at roughly 6 degrees off axis and at a distance of about 200 m from the target would be sensitive to Z couplings as low as 0.05. This search can proceed symbiotically with neutrino measurements. We also show that the MiniBooNE and MicroBooNE detectors, which are on Fermilab's Booster beamline, happen to be at an optimal angle from the NuMI beam and could perform searches with existing data. This illustrates potential synergies between LBNF and the short-baseline neutrino program if the detectors are positioned appropriately.

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Using MiniBooNE neutral current elastic cross section results to constrain 3+1 sterile neutrino models

Wilkinson

Cartwright

Thompson

2014

J. High Energ. Phys.

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The MiniBooNE Neutral Current Elastic (NCEL) cross section results are used to extract limits in the ∆m 2 − sin 2 ϑ µs plane for a 3+1 sterile neutrino model with a mass splitting 0.1 ≤ ∆m 2 ≤ 10.0 eV 2 . GENIE is used with a cross section model close to the one employed by MiniBooNE to make event rate predictions using simulations on the MiniBooNE target material CH 2 . The axial mass is a free parameter in all fits. Sterile modifications to the flux and changes to the cross section in the simulation relate the two and allow limits to be set on sterile neutrino mixing using cross section results. The large axial mass problem makes it necessary for experiments to perform their own axial mass fits, but a prior fit to the same dataset could mask a sterile oscillation signal if the sterile and cross section model parameters are not independent. We find that for the NCEL dataset there are significant correlations between the sterile and cross section model parameters, making a fit to both models simultaneously necessary to get robust results. Failure to do this results in stronger than warranted limits on the sterile parameters. The general problems that the current uncertainty on charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE) and NCEL cross sections at MiniBooNE energies pose for sterile neutrino measurements are discussed.

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Measurement of the neutrino neutral-current elastic differential cross section on mineral oil atEν∼1 GeV

Cited by 144 publications

References 41 publications

Antineutrino Neutral Current Interactions in MiniBooNE

Antineutrino Neutral Current Interactions in MiniBooNE

Dark matter beams at LBNF

Using MiniBooNE neutral current elastic cross section results to constrain 3+1 sterile neutrino models

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