TY - JOUR
T1 - Study of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielastic cross section using atmospheric neutrinos in the SK-Gd experiment
AU - Super-Kamiokande Collaboration
AU - Sakai, Seiya
AU - Abe, K.
AU - Bronner, C.
AU - Hayato, Y.
AU - Hiraide, K.
AU - Hosokawa, K.
AU - Ieki, K.
AU - Ikeda, M.
AU - Kameda, J.
AU - Kanemura, Y.
AU - Kaneshima, R.
AU - Kashiwagi, Y.
AU - Kataoka, Y.
AU - Miki, S.
AU - Mine, S.
AU - Miura, M.
AU - Moriyama, S.
AU - Nakano, Y.
AU - Nakahata, M.
AU - Nakayama, S.
AU - Noguchi, Y.
AU - Sato, K.
AU - Sekiya, H.
AU - Shiba, H.
AU - Shimizu, K.
AU - Shiozawa, M.
AU - Sonoda, Y.
AU - Suzuki, Y.
AU - Takeda, A.
AU - Takemoto, Y.
AU - Tanaka, H.
AU - Yano, T.
AU - Han, S.
AU - Kajita, T.
AU - Okumura, K.
AU - Tashiro, T.
AU - Tomiya, T.
AU - Wang, X.
AU - Yoshida, S.
AU - Fernandez, P.
AU - Labarga, L.
AU - Ospina, N.
AU - Zaldivar, B.
AU - Pointon, B. W.
AU - Kearns, E.
AU - Raaf, J. L.
AU - Wan, L.
AU - Wester, T.
AU - Bian, J.
AU - Wilking, Mike
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PY - 2024/9/27
Y1 - 2024/9/27
N2 - The atmospheric neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielasatic (NCQE) reactions are one of the main background in the search for supernova relic neutrinos. Here, we report the first measurement of the atmospheric neutrino-oxygen NCQE cross section in the Super-Kamiokande Gadolinium (SK-Gd) experiment using 552.2 days of full SK-VI data. The measured NCQE cross section is 0.74 ± 0.22(stat.) +−0.860.16(syst.) × 10−38 cm2, which is consistent with the theoretical NCQE cross section and the previous study in SK within the range of the uncertainty. Furthermore, we established the verification method for nucleon-nucleus interaction models using atmospheric neutrino events. We performed the verification using the Bertini Cascade model (BERT), the Binary Cascade model (BIC) and the Liège Intranuclear Cascade model (INCL++). As a result, we suggested that BIC and INCL++ are closer to the observed data.
AB - The atmospheric neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielasatic (NCQE) reactions are one of the main background in the search for supernova relic neutrinos. Here, we report the first measurement of the atmospheric neutrino-oxygen NCQE cross section in the Super-Kamiokande Gadolinium (SK-Gd) experiment using 552.2 days of full SK-VI data. The measured NCQE cross section is 0.74 ± 0.22(stat.) +−0.860.16(syst.) × 10−38 cm2, which is consistent with the theoretical NCQE cross section and the previous study in SK within the range of the uncertainty. Furthermore, we established the verification method for nucleon-nucleus interaction models using atmospheric neutrino events. We performed the verification using the Bertini Cascade model (BERT), the Binary Cascade model (BIC) and the Liège Intranuclear Cascade model (INCL++). As a result, we suggested that BIC and INCL++ are closer to the observed data.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85212267010
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 444
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
M1 - 1088
T2 - 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023
Y2 - 26 July 2023 through 3 August 2023
ER -