Measurement of the Inclusive NuMu Charged Current Cross Section on Carbon in the Near Detector of the T2K Experiment

Understand

T2K has performed the first measurement of \nu{\mu} inclusive charged current interactions on carbon at neutrino energies of ~1 GeV where the measurement is reported as a flux-averaged double differential cross section in muon momentum and angle.

• The flux is predicted by the beam Monte Carlo and external data, including the results from the NA61/SHINE experiment.
• The data used for this measurement were taken in 2010 and 2011, with a total of 10.8 x 10^{19} protons-on-target.
• The analysis is performed on 4485 inclusive charged current interaction candidates selected in the most upstream fine-grained scintillator detector of the near detector.