Final tau-neutrino results from the DONuT experiment

K. Kodama*, N. Ushida, C. Andreopoulos, N. Saoulidou, G. Tzanakos, P. Yager, B. Baller, D. Boehnlein, W. Freeman, B. Lundberg, J. Morfin, R. Rameika, S. H. Chung, J. S. Song, C. S. Yoon, P. Berghaus, M. Kubantsev, N. W. Reay, R. Sidwell, N. StantonS. Yoshida, S. Aoki, T. Hara, J. T. Rhee, D. Ciampa, C. Erickson, M. Graham, E. Maher, K. Heller, R. Rusack, R. Schwienhorst, J. Sielaff, J. Trammell, J. Wilcox, T. Furukawa, K. Hoshino, H. Jiko, M. Komatsu, M. Nakamura, T. Nakano, K. Niwa, N. Nonaka, K. Okada, B. D. Park, O. Sato, S. Takahashi, V. Paolone, C. Rosenfeld, A. Kulik, T. Kafka, W. Oliver, T. Patzak, J. Schneps

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研究成果: ジャーナルへの寄稿学術論文査読

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The DONuT experiment collected data in 1997 and published first results in 2000 based on four observed ντ charged-current (CC) interactions. The final analysis of the data collected in the experiment is presented in this paper, based on 3.6×1017 protons on target using the 800 GeV Tevatron beam at Fermilab. The number of observed ντ CC events is 9 with an estimated background of 1.5 events, from a total of 578 observed neutrino interactions. We calculate the ντ CC cross section as a function of one parameter. Assuming Ds mesons are the sole source for ντ, the energy-independent part of the total CC cross section can be parametrized as σconst(ντ )=2.51n1.52×10-40cm2GeV-1 for n 4, where n is the parameter controlling the longitudinal part of the Ds differential cross section of the form dσ/dxF (1-|xF|)n. The analysis could not distinguish between ντ and ν̄τ. The value of n obtained from Pythia simulations, n=6.1, gives an estimated value of σconst(ντ)=(0.39±0.13±0.13) ×10-38cm2GeV-1.

本文言語英語
論文番号052002
ジャーナルPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
78
5
DOI
出版ステータス出版済み - 2008/09/11

ASJC Scopus 主題領域

  • 核物理学および高エネルギー物理学
  • 物理学および天文学(その他)

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