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Measurement of the muon antineutrino double-differential cross section for quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at E-v similar to 3.5 GeV
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
  • MINERvA Collaboration, MINERvA Collaboration
  • Michael A. Kordosky, William & Mary
  • Jeffrey K. Nelson, William & Mary
  • Anne Norrick, William & Mary
  • Edgar Valencia-Rodriguez, William & Mary
  • D. Zhang, William & Mary
  • et al., et al.
Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Pub Date
3-8-2018
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract

We present double-differential measurements of antineutrino charged-current quasielastic scattering in the MINERvA detector. This study improves on a previous single-differential measurement by using updated reconstruction algorithms and interaction models and provides a complete description of observed muon kinematics in the form of a double-differential cross section with respect to muon transverse and longitudinal momentum. We include in our signal definition zero-meson final states arising from multinucleon interactions and from resonant pion production followed by pion absorption in the primary nucleus. We find that model agreement is considerably improved by a model tuned to MINERvA inclusive neutrino scattering data that incorporates nuclear effects such as weak nuclear screening and two-particle, two-hole enhancements.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.052002
Citation Information
MINERvA Collaboration, Michael A. Kordosky, Jeffrey K. Nelson, Anne Norrick, et al.. "Measurement of the muon antineutrino double-differential cross section for quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at E-v similar to 3.5 GeV" PHYSICAL REVIEW D Vol. 97 Iss. 5 (2018) p. 1 - 49
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael-kordosky/13/