Precise Determination ofsin2θWfrom Measurements of the Differential Cross Sections for

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SILK [Phys. Rev. Lett 56, 263 (1986)].The right-hand side of Eq. (2) should be multiplied by a factor of 3 for color. Correspondingly, the branching ratio in Fig. 2 should be reduced by a factor of 3. This reduces the predicted line fluxes by the same factor. We thank S. Rudaz for bringing this error to our attention.Also, the interaction of Eq. (1) is to be interpreted as a vertex factor appropriate when one applies the usual Feynman rules, treating both X and Q as Dirac spinors. If the Feynman rules are altered to take into account the Majorana nature of X, the right-hand side of Eq. (1) should be multiplied by y. See H. E. Haber and G. L. Kane, Phys. Rep. 117, 75 (1985), for a thorough discussion.

Consistent analysis of neutral- and charged-current neutrino scattering off carbon

“…The corrections for Pauli blocking applied by the authors of Ref. [41] could diminish this difference, which suggests that numerically our results may not be very different from those used to find the normalization of the BNL E734 cross sections. We would like to acknowledge that the BNL E734 data have been analyzed by the authors of Refs.…”

“…Figure 1 shows that the SF calculations provide a fairly good description of the BNL E734 data [41] in the whole range of Q 2 . Note that the agreement with the higher-statistics antineutrino data seems to be better.…”

“…In the BNL E734 experiment [41], studying νp andνp NCE interactions, the target was composed in 79% of protons bound in carbon and aluminium and in 21% of free protons. The mean value of neutrino (antineutrino) energy was 1.3 GeV (1.2 GeV).…”

“…Based on 1686 (1821) candidate νp (νp) events surviving the cuts, the flux-averaged differential cross sections dσ NC /dQ 2 for scattering off the BNL E734 target were extracted [41]. The normalization uncertainty of the ν (ν) result is estimated to be 11.2% (10.4%).…”

“…[40], discussing various issues related to the Q 2 distribution of event yield. Here we cover both NCE and CCQE processes, treating them in an identical manner and comparing the obtained cross sections to those measured by the Brookhaven National Laboratory Experiment 734 (BNL E734) [41], MiniBooNE [18,42], and NOMAD [21] Collaborations.…”