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(2014)
Measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current interaction cross section by observing nuclear deexcitation γ rays.
PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 90 (7).
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Abstract
We report the first measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current
quasielastic (NCQE) cross section. It is obtained by observing nuclear
deexcitation $\gamma$-rays which follow neutrino-oxygen interactions at the
Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector. We use T2K data corresponding to
$3.01 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target. By selecting only events during the
T2K beam window and with well-reconstructed vertices in the fiducial volume,
the large background rate from natural radioactivity is dramatically reduced.
We observe 43 events in the $4-30$ MeV reconstructed energy window, compared
with an expectation of 51.0, which includes an estimated 16.2 background
events. The background is primarily nonquasielastic neutral-current
interactions and has only 1.2 events from natural radioactivity. The
flux-averaged NCQE cross section we measure is $1.55 \times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$
with a 68\% confidence interval of $(1.22, 2.20) \times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$ at a
median neutrino energy of 630 MeV, compared with the theoretical prediction of
$2.01 \times 10^{-38}$ cm$^2$.