Muon antineutrino charged-current cross sections without pions in the final state at T2K

TL;DR

This paper presents preliminary measurements of muon neutrino and antineutrino charged-current cross sections without pions at T2K, providing data crucial for refining theoretical models of nuclear effects in neutrino interactions.

Contribution

It reports the first simultaneous extraction of muon neutrino and antineutrino cross sections without pions at T2K, as a function of muon kinematics, aiding model tuning.

Findings

Measured cross sections as a function of muon kinematics.

Evaluated sum, difference, and asymmetry of the cross sections.

Data useful for tuning nuclear effect models.

Abstract

T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment located in Japan and designed to measure neutrino flavor oscillation using an off-axis neutrino beam. Data collected recently with an anti-neutrino beam allows T2K to measure cross sections for anti-neutrinos at an energy around 600 MeV using the off-axis near detector. These measurements, along with the analogous for neutrinos, are vital inputs to neutrino oscillation analyses and their interpretation. In this work preliminary results on the simultaneous extraction of the muon neutrino and anti-neutrino charged-current cross sections without pions in the final state is presented. The two cross sections will be measured as a function of muon kinematic allowing to evaluate the sum, difference and asymmetry between the two cross sections. These results are useful for comparison and tuning of theoretical models of nuclear effects such as multinucleon interactions (also know as 2 particle-2 hole processes).