Measurement of Neutrino-Nucleon Neutral Current Elastic Scattering in MiniBooNE
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Using a high-statistics sample of neutral current elastic neutrino interactions, MiniBooNE measured the fluxaveraged neutral current elastic differential cross-section on mineral oil (CH2). Using the latter, a χ2 test of MC with different values of the axial vector mass has been performed. Also, a possibility of using a sample of neutral current elastic protonenriched events above Cherenkov threshold to measure the ratio ν p → ν p/νN → νN is discussed. This ratio is sensitive to the strange quark contribution to the nucleon spin, ∆s.
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