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Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current single $π^{+}$ production on hydrocarbon using the T2K off-axis near detector ND280

K. Abe⁵⁵, R. Akutsu⁵⁶, A. Ali³², C. Alt¹¹, J. Amey²¹, C. Andreopoulos^53,34, L. Anthony³⁴, M. Antonova¹⁹, S. Aoki³¹ et al. (The T2K Collaboration)

S. Aoki³¹, A. Ariga², Y. Ashida³², E. T. Atkin²¹, Y. Awataguchi⁵⁸, Y. Azuma⁴¹, S. Ban³², M. Barbi⁴⁵, G. J. Barker⁶⁵, G. Barr⁴², C. Barry³⁴, M. Batkiewicz-Kwasniak¹⁵, A. Beloshapkin²⁶, F. Bench³⁴, V. Berardi²², S. Berkman^4,61, R. M. Berner², L. Berns⁵⁷, S. Bhadra⁶⁹, S. Bienstock⁵², A. Blondel^13,†, S. Bolognesi⁶, S. Bordoni^18,†, B. Bourguille¹⁸, S. B. Boyd⁶⁵, D. Brailsford³³, A. Bravar¹³, C. Bronner⁵⁵, M. Buizza Avanzini¹⁰, J. Calcutt³⁶, R. G. Calland²⁸, T. Campbell⁷, S. Cao¹⁶, S. L. Cartwright⁴⁹, R. Castillo^18,‡, M. G. Catanesi²², A. Cervera¹⁹, A. Chappell⁶⁵, C. Checchia²⁴, D. Cherdack¹⁷, N. Chikuma⁵⁴, G. Christodoulou¹², J. Coleman³⁴, G. Collazuol²⁴, L. Cook^42,28, D. Coplowe⁴², A. Cudd³⁶, A. Dabrowska¹⁵, G. De Rosa²³, T. Dealtry³³, P. F. Denner⁶⁵, S. R. Dennis³⁴, C. Densham⁵³, F. Di Lodovico³⁰, N. Dokania³⁹, S. Dolan¹², O. Drapier¹⁰, K. E. Duffy⁴², J. Dumarchez⁵², P. Dunne²¹, L. Eklund¹⁴, S. Emery-Schrenk⁶, A. Ereditato², P. Fernandez¹⁹, T. Feusels^4,61, A. J. Finch³³, G. A. 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Khabibullin²⁶, A. Khotjantsev²⁶, H. Kim⁴¹, J. Kim^4,61, S. King⁴⁴, J. Kisiel⁵⁰, A. Knight⁶⁵, A. Knox³³, T. Kobayashi^16,§, L. Koch⁵³, T. Koga⁵⁴, P. P. Koller², A. Konaka⁶¹, L. L. Kormos³³, Y. Koshio^40,∥, K. Kowalik³⁸, H. Kubo³², Y. Kudenko^26,¶, N. Kukita⁴¹, R. Kurjata⁶⁴, T. Kutter³⁵, M. Kuze⁵⁷, L. Labarga¹, J. Lagoda³⁸, I. Lamont³³, M. Lamoureux²⁴, P. Lasorak⁴⁴, M. Laveder²⁴, M. Lawe³³, M. Licciardi¹⁰, T. Lindner⁶¹, Z. J. Liptak⁷, R. P. Litchfield¹⁴, S. L. Liu³⁹, X. Li³⁹, A. Longhin²⁴, J. P. Lopez⁷, T. Lou⁵⁴, L. Ludovici²⁵, X. Lu⁴², T. Lux¹⁸, L. N. Machado²³, L. Magaletti²², K. Mahn³⁶, M. Malek⁴⁹, S. Manly⁴⁶, L. Maret¹³, A. D. Marino⁷, J. F. Martin⁶⁰, P. Martins⁴⁴, S. Martynenko³⁹, T. Maruyama^16,§, T. Matsubara¹⁶, K. Matsushita⁵⁴, V. Matveev²⁶, K. Mavrokoridis³⁴, W. Y. Ma²¹, E. Mazzucato⁶, M. McCarthy⁶⁹, N. McCauley³⁴, K. S. McFarland⁴⁶, C. McGrew³⁹, A. Mefodiev²⁶, C. Metelko³⁴, M. Mezzetto²⁴, A. Minamino⁶⁸, O. Mineev²⁶, S. Mine⁵, A. Missert⁷, M. Miura^55,∥, L. Molina Bueno¹¹, S. Moriyama^55,∥, J. Morrison³⁶, Th. A. Mueller¹⁰, L. Munteanu⁶, S. Murphy¹¹, Y. Nagai⁷, T. Nakadaira^16,§, M. Nakahata^55,28, Y. Nakajima⁵⁵, A. Nakamura⁴⁰, K. G. Nakamura³², K. Nakamura^28,16,§, K. D. Nakamura³², Y. Nakanishi³², S. Nakayama^55,28, T. Nakaya^32,28, K. Nakayoshi^16,§, C. Nantais⁶⁰, T. V. Ngoc²⁰, C. Nielsen^4,61, K. Niewczas⁶⁷, K. Nishikawa^16,*, Y. Nishimura²⁹, T. S. Nonnenmacher²¹, F. Nova⁵³, P. Novella¹⁹, J. Nowak³³, J. C. Nugent¹⁴, H. M. O’Keeffe³³, L. O’Sullivan⁴⁹, K. Okumura^56,28, T. Okusawa⁴¹, W. Oryszczak⁶³, S. M. Oser^4,61, T. Ovsyannikova²⁶, R. A. Owen⁴⁴, Y. Oyama^16,§, V. Palladino²³, J. L. Palomino³⁹, V. Paolone⁴³, W. C. Parker⁴⁷, N. D. Patel³², P. Paudyal³⁴, M. Pavin⁶¹, D. Payne³⁴, G. C. Penn³⁴, Y. Petrov^4,61, L. Pickering³⁶, C. Pidcott⁴⁹, E. S. Pinzon Guerra⁶⁹, C. Pistillo², B. Popov^52,**, K. Porwit⁵⁰, M. Posiadala-Zezula⁶³, J.-M. Poutissou⁶¹, A. Pritchard³⁴, P. Przewlocki³⁸, B. Quilain²⁸, T. Radermacher⁴⁸, E. Radicioni²², B. Radics¹¹, P. N. Ratoff³³, M. A. Rayner¹³, E. Reinherz-Aronis⁸, C. Riccio²³, E. Rondio³⁸, B. Rossi²³, S. Roth⁴⁸, A. Rubbia¹¹, A. C. Ruggeri²³, A. Rychter⁶⁴, K. Sakashita^16,§, F. Sánchez ¹³, S. Sasaki⁵⁸, E. Scantamburlo¹³, C. M. Schloesser¹¹, K. Scholberg^9,∥, J. Schwehr⁸, M. Scott²¹, Y. Seiya^41,††, T. Sekiguchi^16,§, H. Sekiya^55,28,∥, D. Sgalaberna¹², R. Shah^53,42, A. Shaikhiev²⁶, F. Shaker⁶⁶, D. Shaw³³, A. Shaykina²⁶, M. Shiozawa^55,28, T. Shirahige⁴⁰, W. Shorrock²¹, A. Shvartsman²⁶, A. Smirnov²⁶, M. Smy⁵, J. T. Sobczyk⁶⁷, H. Sobel^5,28, F. J. P. Soler¹⁴, Y. Sonoda⁵⁵, J. Steinmann⁴⁸, T. Stewart⁵³, P. Stowell⁴⁹, Y. Suda⁵⁴, S. Suvorov^26,6, A. Suzuki³¹, S. Y. Suzuki^16,§, Y. Suzuki²⁸, A. A. Sztuc²¹, R. Tacik^45,61, M. Tada^16,§, A. Takeda⁵⁵, Y. Takeuchi^31,28, R. Tamura⁵⁴, H. K. Tanaka^55,∥, H. A. Tanaka^51,60, S. Tanaka⁴¹, T. Thakore³⁵, L. F. Thompson⁴⁹, S. Tobayama^4,61, W. Toki⁸, T. Tomura⁵⁵, C. Touramanis³⁴, K. M. Tsui³⁴, T. Tsukamoto^16,§, M. Tzanov³⁵, Y. Uchida²¹, W. Uno³², M. Vagins^28,5, S. Valder⁶⁵, Z. Vallari³⁹, D. Vargas¹⁸, G. Vasseur⁶, C. Vilela³⁹, W. G. S. Vinning⁶⁵, T. Vladisavljevic^42,28, V. V. Volkov²⁶, T. Wachala¹⁵, J. Walker⁶⁶, J. G. Walsh³³, C. W. Walter^9,∥, Y. Wang³⁹, D. Wark^53,42, M. O. Wascko²¹, A. Weber^53,42, R. Wendell^32,∥, M. J. Wilking³⁹, C. Wilkinson², J. R. Wilson³⁰, R. J. Wilson⁸, K. Wood³⁹, C. Wret⁴⁶, Y. Yamada^16,*, K. Yamamoto^41,††, S. Yamasu⁴⁰, C. Yanagisawa^39,‡‡, G. Yang³⁹, T. Yano⁵⁵, K. Yasutome³², S. Yen⁶¹, N. Yershov²⁶, M. Yokoyama^54,∥, T. Yoshida⁵⁷, M. Yu⁶⁹, A. Zalewska¹⁵, J. Zalipska³⁸, L. Zambelli^16,§, K. Zaremba⁶⁴, G. Zarnecki³⁸, M. Ziembicki⁶⁴, E. D. Zimmerman⁷, M. Zito⁶, S. Zsoldos⁴⁴, and A. Zykova²⁶ (The T2K Collaboration)

¹University Autonoma Madrid, Department of Theoretical Physics, 28049 Madrid, Spain
²University of Bern, Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), Bern, Switzerland
³Boston University, Department of Physics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
⁴University of British Columbia, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
⁵University of California, Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, California, USA
⁶IRFU, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
⁷University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, Colorado, USA
⁸Colorado State University, Department of Physics, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
⁹Duke University, Department of Physics, Durham, North Carolina, USA
¹⁰Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Palaiseau, France
¹¹ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics, Zurich, Switzerland
¹²CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Genève 23, Switzerland
¹³University of Geneva, Section de Physique, DPNC, Geneva, Switzerland
¹⁴University of Glasgow, School of Physics and Astronomy, Glasgow, United Kingdom
¹⁵H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow, Poland
¹⁶High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
¹⁷University of Houston, Department of Physics, Houston, Texas, USA
¹⁸Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
¹⁹IFIC (CSIC & University of Valencia), Valencia, Spain
²⁰Institute For Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Education (IFIRSE), ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam
²¹Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
²²INFN Sezione di Bari and Università e Politecnico di Bari, Dipartimento Interuniversitario di Fisica, Bari, Italy
²³INFN Sezione di Napoli and Università di Napoli, Dipartimento di Fisica, Napoli, Italy
²⁴INFN Sezione di Padova and Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica, Padova, Italy
²⁵INFN Sezione di Roma and Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy
²⁶Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
²⁷International Centre of Physics, Institute of Physics (IOP), Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), 10 Dao Tan, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Vietnam
²⁸Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
²⁹Keio University, Department of Physics, Kanagawa, Japan
³⁰King’s College London, Department of Physics, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
³¹Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
³²Kyoto University, Department of Physics, Kyoto, Japan
³³Lancaster University, Physics Department, Lancaster, United Kingdom
³⁴University of Liverpool, Department of Physics, Liverpool, United Kingdom
³⁵Louisiana State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
³⁶Michigan State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
³⁷Miyagi University of Education, Department of Physics, Sendai, Japan
³⁸National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
³⁹State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook, New York, USA
⁴⁰Okayama University, Department of Physics, Okayama, Japan
⁴¹Osaka City University, Department of Physics, Osaka, Japan
⁴²Oxford University, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
⁴³University of Pittsburgh, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
⁴⁴Queen Mary University of London, School of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom
⁴⁵University of Regina, Department of Physics, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
⁴⁶University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York, USA
⁴⁷Royal Holloway University of London, Department of Physics, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
⁴⁸RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut, Aachen, Germany
⁴⁹University of Sheffield, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield, United Kingdom
⁵⁰University of Silesia, Institute of Physics, Katowice, Poland
⁵¹SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California, USA
⁵²Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Paris, France
⁵³STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, and Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, United Kingdom
⁵⁴University of Tokyo, Department of Physics, Tokyo, Japan
⁵⁵University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Kamioka Observatory, Kamioka, Japan
⁵⁶University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Kashiwa, Japan
⁵⁷Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, Tokyo, Japan
⁵⁸Tokyo Metropolitan University, Department of Physics, Tokyo, Japan
⁵⁹Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Noda, Chiba, Japan
⁶⁰University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
⁶¹TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
⁶²University of Victoria, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
⁶³University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw, Poland
⁶⁴Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Radioelectronics and Multimedia Technology, Warsaw, Poland
⁶⁵University of Warwick, Department of Physics, Coventry, United Kingdom
⁶⁶University of Winnipeg, Department of Physics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
⁶⁷Wroclaw University, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Wroclaw, Poland
⁶⁸Yokohama National University, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama, Japan
⁶⁹York University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

^*Deceased.
^†Present address: CERN.
^‡Present address: FNAL.
^§Also at J-PARC, Tokai, Japan.
^∥Also at Kavli IPMU (WPI), University of Tokyo, Japan.
^¶Also at National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI” and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia.
^**Also at JINR, Dubna, Russia.
^††Also at Nambu Yoichiro Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (NITEP), Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan.
^‡‡Also at BMCC/CUNY, Science Department, New York, New York, USA.

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Phys. Rev. D 101, 012007 – Published 21 January, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.012007

Abstract

We report the measurements of the single and double differential cross section of muon neutrino charged-current interactions on carbon with a single positively charged pion in the final state at the T2K off-axis near detector using $5.56 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target. The analysis uses data control samples for the background subtraction and the cross section signal, defined as a single negatively charged muon and a single positively charged pion exiting from the target nucleus, is extracted using an unfolding method. The model-dependent cross section, integrated over the T2K off-axis neutrino beam spectrum peaking at 0.6 GeV, is measured to be $σ = (11.76 \pm 0.44 (stat) \pm 2.39 (syst)) \times 10^{- 40} {cm}^{2} {nucleon}^{- 1}$ . Various differential cross sections are measured, including the first measurement of the Adler angles for single charged pion production in neutrino interactions with heavy nuclei target.

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Particle interactions

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Phys. Rev. D 101, 012007– Published 21 January, 2020

Vol. 101, Iss. 1 — 1 January 2020

Received 11 September 2019
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.012007

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Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current single $π^{+}$ production on hydrocarbon using the T2K off-axis near detector ND280