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First Measurement of Muon Neutrino Charged Current Quasielastic (CCQE) Double Differential Cross Section

T. Katori, Alejandro Israel Robledo Ayala, Guillermo Contreras, Ildefonso Leon, Pedro Podesta

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A high‐statistics sample of charged‐current muon neutrino scattering events collected with the MiniBooNE experiment is analyzed to extract the first measurement of the double differential cross section (d2σ/d Tμd cos θμ) for charged‐current quasielastic (CCQE) scattering on carbon. This result features minimalmodel dependence and provides the most complete information on this process to date. The results are important input to characterize CCQE interaction for precision long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.

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Key concepts: MiniBooNE, Charged current, Physics, Neutrino, Muon, Nuclear physics, Muon neutrino, Neutrino oscillation