2006
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.74.052002
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Measurement of the quasielastic axial vector mass in neutrino interactions on oxygen

Abstract: The weak nucleon axial-vector form factor for quasielastic interactions is determined using neutrino interaction data from the K2K Scintillating Fiber detector in the neutrino beam at KEK. More than 12 000 events are analyzed, of which half are charged-current quasielastic interactions nu(mu)n ->mu(-)p occurring primarily in oxygen nuclei. We use a relativistic Fermi gas model for oxygen and assume the form factor is approximately a dipole with one parameter, the axial-vector mass M-A, and fit to the shape of … Show more

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“…Until recently the consensus value for the axial mass was m A = 1.025 ± 0.021 GeV [25]. This is somewhat in contrast with values reported by K2K [26] of m A = 1.20 ± 0.12 GeV and MiniBooNE [27] of m A = 1.23 ± 0.20 GeV. One possible explanation, put forth in [27], is that the old data was mainly obtained on Deuterium, where nuclear effects are very small, whereas the new data used Oxygen (K2K) or Carbon (MiniBooNE).…”
Section: Jhep03(2008)021contrasting
confidence: 55%
“…Until recently the consensus value for the axial mass was m A = 1.025 ± 0.021 GeV [25]. This is somewhat in contrast with values reported by K2K [26] of m A = 1.20 ± 0.12 GeV and MiniBooNE [27] of m A = 1.23 ± 0.20 GeV. One possible explanation, put forth in [27], is that the old data was mainly obtained on Deuterium, where nuclear effects are very small, whereas the new data used Oxygen (K2K) or Carbon (MiniBooNE).…”
Section: Jhep03(2008)021contrasting
confidence: 55%
“…Pion electroproduction and older neutrino scattering experiments suggest values around m A ∼ 1 GeV [447,591] whereas more recent data from MiniBooNE and K2K favor higher central values up to m A ∼ 1.3 GeV [592,593]. The origin of this discrepancy is unclear and could be a consequence of nuclear medium effects [594] or a deviation from the dipole form [595].…”
Section: Nucleon Axial and Pseudoscalar Form Factorsmentioning
confidence: 50%
“…(1.5) M A denotes the axial mass. Notice that recent studies [19,20] suggest M A value larger by about 20% with respect to the old measurements [21][22][23]. The impact of the electromagnetic form-factors on the axial mass extraction is small, but it can play a role in the future, when more precise measurements of the neutrino-nucleon cross-sections will be performed.…”
Section: Jhep09(2010)053mentioning
confidence: 99%