First measurement of the muon neutrino charged current single pion production cross section on water with the T2K near detector

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The T2K off-axis near detector, ND280, is used to make the first differential cross section measurements of muon neutrino charged current single positive pion production on a water target at energies $\ensuremath{\sim}0.8\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}$. The differential measurements are presented as a function of the muon and pion kinematics, in the restricted phase space defined by ${p}_{{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}}>200\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}/c$, ${p}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}>200\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}/c$, $\mathrm{cos}({\ensuremath{\theta}}_{{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}})>0.3$ and $\mathrm{cos}({\ensuremath{\theta}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}})>0.3$. The total flux integrated ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}$ charged current single positive pion production cross section on water in the restricted phase space is measured to be $⟨\ensuremath{\sigma}{⟩}_{\ensuremath{\phi}}=4.25\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.48(\mathrm{stat})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}1.56(\mathrm{syst})\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}40}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}/\text{nucleon}$. The total cross section is consistent with the NEUT prediction ($5.03\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}40}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}/\text{nucleon}$) and $2\ensuremath{\sigma}$ lower than the GENIE prediction ($7.68\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}40}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}/\text{nucleon}$). The differential cross sections are in good agreement with the NEUT generator. The GENIE simulation reproduces well the shapes of the distributions, but overestimates the overall cross section normalization.

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