Wan, L. et al. (2019) Measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielastic cross section using atmospheric neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande. Physical Review D, 99, 032005. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.032005)
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Abstract
Neutral current (NC) interactions of atmospheric neutrinos on oxygen form one of the major backgrounds in the search for supernova relic neutrinos with water-based Cherenkov detectors. The NC channel is dominated by neutrino quasielastic (NCQE) scattering off nucleons inside 16O nuclei. In this paper we report the first measurement of NCQE cross section using atmospheric neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande (SK). The measurement used 2,778 live days of SK-IV data with a fiducial volume of 22.5 kiloton water. Within the visible energy window of 7.5–29.5 MeV, we observed 117 events compared to the expected 71.9 NCQE signal and 53.1 background events. Weighted by the atmospheric neutrino spectrum from 160 MeV to 10 GeV, the flux averaged NCQE cross section is measured to be (1.01±0.17(stat.) +0.78 −0.30(sys.))×10−38 cm2.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Additional Information: | Super-Kamiokande Collaboration. |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Litchfield, Dr Phillip |
Authors: | Wan, L., Abe, K., Bronner, C., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kato, Y., Kishimoto, Y., Marti, L., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Mochizuki, T., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, Y., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Okada, T., Okamoto, K., Orii, A., Pronost, G., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Sonoda, Y., Takeda, A., Takenaka, A., Tanaka, H., Yano, T., Akutsu, R., Kajita, T., Nishimura, Y., Okumura, K., Wang, R., Xia, J., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Kachulis, C., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sussman, S., Berkman, S., Bian, J., Griskevich, N. J., Kropp, W. R., Locke, S., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hill, J., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Park, R. G., Bodur, B., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Gonin, M., Imber, J., Mueller, T. A., Ishizuka, T., Nakamura, T., Jang, J. S., Choi, K., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Litchfield, R. P., Uchida, Y., Wascko, M. O., Calabria, N. F., Catanesi, M. G., Intonti, R. A., Radicioni, E., De Rosa, G., Ali, A., Collazuol, G., Iacob, F., Ludovici, L., Cao, S., Friend, M., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Tsukamoto, T., Abe, K., Hasegawa, M., Isobe, Y., Miyabe, H., Sugimoto, T., Suzuki, A. T., Takeuchi, Y., Ashida, Y., Hayashino, T., Hirota, S., Jiang, M., Kikawa, T., Mori, M., Nakamura, K., Nakaya, T., Wendell, R. A., Anthony, L. H. V., McCauley, N., Pritchard, A., Tsui, K. M., Fukuda, Y., Itow, Y., Murrase, M., Mijakowski, P., Frankiewicz, K., Jung, C. K., Li, X., Palomino, J. L., Santucci, G., Vilela, C., Wilking, M. J., Yanagisawa, C., Fukuda, D., Hagiwara, K., Ishino, H., Ito, S., Koshio, Y., Sakuda, M., Takahira, Y., Xu, C., Kuno, Y., Simpson, C., Wark, D., Di Lodovico, F., Richards, B., Molina Sedgwick, S., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Thiesse, M., Thompson, L., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Yokoyama, M., Goldsack, A., Martens, K., Murdoch, M., Quilain, B., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Kuze, M., Okajima, Y., Yoshida, T., Ishitsuka, M., Martin, J. F., Nantais, C. M., Tanaka, H. A., Towstego, T., Hartz, M., Konaka, A., de Perio, P., Chen, S., and Minamino, A. |
College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy |
Journal Name: | Physical Review D |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
ISSN: | 2470-0010 |
ISSN (Online): | 2470-0029 |
Published Online: | 15 February 2019 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2019 American Physical Society |
First Published: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
Publisher Policy: | First published in Physical Review D 99:032005 |
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