Measurement of the electron neutrino charged-current interaction rate on water with the T2K ND280 π<SUP>0</SUP> detector



Abe, K, Adam, J, Aihara, H, Andreopoulos, C ORCID: 0000-0003-2020-8215, Aoki, S, Ariga, A, Assylbekov, S, Autiero, D, Barbi, M, Barker, GJ
et al (show 336 more authors) (2015) Measurement of the electron neutrino charged-current interaction rate on water with the T2K ND280 π<SUP>0</SUP> detector. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 91 (11). 112010-.

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Abstract

This paper presents a measurement of the charged current interaction rate of the electron neutrino beam component of the beam above $1.5$~GeV using the large fiducial mass of the T2K $\pi^0$ detector. The predominant poriton of the $\nu_e$ flux ($\sim$85 %) at these energies comes from kaon decays. The measured ratio of the observed beam interaction rate to the predicted rate in the detector with water targets filled is 0.89 $\pm$ 0.08 (stat.) $\pm$ 0.11 (sys.), and with the water targets emptied is 0.90 $\pm$ 0.09 (stat.) $\pm$ 0.13 (sys.). The ratio obtained for the interactions on water only from an event subtraction method is 0.87 $\pm$ 0.33 (stat.) $\pm$ 0.21 (sys.). This is the first measurement of the interaction rate of electron neutrinos on water, which is particularly of interest to experiments with water Cherenkov detectors.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 11 pages, 6 figures, as accepted to PRD
Uncontrolled Keywords: hep-ex, hep-ex
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2016 10:38
Last Modified: 18 Oct 2023 02:38
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.112010
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3000008