# Measurement of the inclusive electron neutrino charged current cross section on carbon with the T2K near detector

Abe, K. and Adam, J. and Aihara, H. and Akiri, T. and Andreopoulos, C. and Aoki, S. and Ariga, A. and Assylbekov, S. and Autiero, D. and Barbi, M. and Barker, G. J. and Barr, G. and Bass, M. and Batkiewicz, M. and Bay, F. and Berardi, V. and Berger, B. E. and Berkman, S. and Bhadra, S. and Blaszczyk, F. d. M. and Blondel, A. and Bojechko, C. and Bordoni, S. and Boyd, S. B. and Brailsford, D. and Bravar, A. and Bronner, C. and Buchanan, N. and Calland, R. G. and Rodríguez, J. Caravaca and Cartwright, S. L. and Castillo, R. and Catanesi, M. G. and Cervera, A. and Cherdack, D. and Christodoulou, G. and Clifton, A. and Coleman, J. and Coleman, S. J. and Collazuol, G. and Dealtry, T. and Finch, A. J. and Grant, N. and Kormos, L. L. and Lamont, I. and Lawe, M. and O'Keeffe, H. M. and Ratoff, P. N. and Reeves, M. and Southwell, L. (2014) Measurement of the inclusive electron neutrino charged current cross section on carbon with the T2K near detector. Physical review letters, 113 (24). ISSN 1079-7114

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## Abstract

The T2K off-axis near detector, ND280, is used to make the first differential cross-section measurements of electron neutrino charged current interactions at energies ~1 GeV as a function of electron momentum, electron scattering angle and four-momentum transfer of the interaction. The total flux-averaged $\nu_e$ charged current cross-section on carbon is measured to be $1.11\pm0.09~(stat)\pm0.18~(syst)\times10^{-38} cm^2/nucleon$. The differential and total cross-section measurements agree with the predictions of two leading neutrino interaction generators, NEUT and GENIE. The NEUT prediction is $1.23\times10^{-38} cm^2/nucleon$ and the GENIE prediction is $1.08\times10^{-38} cm^2/nucleon$. The total $\nu_e$ charged current cross-section result is also in agreement with data from the Gargamelle experiment.

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Physical review letters
Submitted to PRL. Please see http://t2k-experiment.org/results/nd280-nue-xs-2014 for the data releated to these results © 2014 American Physical Society
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18 Jun 2015 05:54
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