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Simultaneous Measurement of Proton and Lepton Kinematics in Quasielasticlike ν μ -Hydrocarbon Interactions from 2 to 20 GeV
Physical Review Letters (2022)
  • Jeffrey K Nelson, William & Mary
  • D. Ruterbories
  • MINERvA Collaboration, MINERvA Collaboration
Abstract
Neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like scattering, a reaction category extensively used in neutrino oscillation measurements, probes nuclear effects that govern neutrino-nucleus interactions. This Letter reports the first measurement of the triple-differential cross section for νμ quasielastic-like reactions using the hydrocarbon medium of the MINERvA detector exposed to a wideband beam spanning 2≤Eν≤20 GeV. The measurement maps the correlations among transverse and longitudinal muon momenta and summed proton kinetic energies, and compares them to predictions from a state-of-art simulation. Discrepancies are observed that likely reflect shortfalls with modeling of pion and nucleon intranuclear scattering and/or spectator nucleon ejection from struck nuclei. The separate determination of leptonic and hadronic variables can inform experimental approaches to neutrino-energy estimation.
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Publication Date
July, 2022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.021803
Citation Information
Jeffrey K Nelson, D. Ruterbories and MINERvA Collaboration. "Simultaneous Measurement of Proton and Lepton Kinematics in Quasielasticlike ν μ -Hydrocarbon Interactions from 2 to 20 GeV" Physical Review Letters Vol. 129 Iss. 2 (2022)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey-nelson/35/
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