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Experimental test of the PCAC-hypothesis in charged current neutrino and antineutrino interactions on protons

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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Data obtained with the bubble chamber BEBC at CERN are used for the first significant test of Adler's prediction for the neutrino and antineutrino-proton scattering cross sections at vanishing four-momentum transfer squaredQ 2. An Extended Vector Meson Dominance Model (EVDM) is applied to extrapolate Adler's prediction to experimentally accessible values ofQ 2. The data show good agreement with Adler's prediction forQ 2→0 thus confirming the PCAC hypothesis in the kinematical region of high leptonic energy transfer ν>2 GeV. The good agreement of the data with the theoretical predictions also at higherQ 2, where the EVDM terms are dominant, also supports this model. However, an EVDM calculation without PCAC is clearly ruled out by the data.

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  1. B. W. Kennedy

    Present address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

  2. P. Allport

    Present address: Rutherford Appleton Lab., Chilton, OX11 0QX, Didcot, Oxon, UK

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  1. University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK

    G. T. Jones, R. W. L. Jones, B. W. Kennedy & S. W. O'Neale

  2. European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    H. Klein, D. R. O. Morrison, P. Schmid & H. Wachsmuth

  3. Department of Physics, Imperial College, SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    D. B. Miller, M. M. Mobayyen & S. Wainstein

  4. Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, D-8000, München 40, Germany

    M. Aderholz, E. Hoffmann, U. F. Katz, J. Kern, N. Schmitz & W. Wittek

  5. Department of Nuclear Physics, OX1 3RH, Oxford, UK

    P. Allport, G. Myatt & D. Radojicic

  6. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    F. W. Bullock & S. Burke

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Jones, G.T., Jones, R.W.L., Kennedy, B.W. et al. Experimental test of the PCAC-hypothesis in charged current neutrino and antineutrino interactions on protons. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 37, 25–38 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01442065

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