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High-Statistics Measurement of Antineutrino Quasielastic-like scattering at Eν∼ 6~GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target
High Energy Physics - Experiment (2022)
  • Michael A Kordosky, William & Mary
  • The MINERvA Collaboration, The MINERvA Collaboration
Abstract
We present measurements of the cross section for anti-neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon using the medium energy (ME) NuMI wide-band neutrino beam peaking at <Eν>∼6 GeV. The cross section measurements are presented as a function of the longitudinal momentum (p||) and transverse momentum (pT) of the final state muon. This work complements our previously reported high statistics measurement in the neutrino channel and extends the previous anti-neutrino measurement made in the low energy (LE) beam at neutrino energy(<Eν>) ∼ 3.5 GeV to pT of 2.5 GeV/c. Current theoretical models do not completely describe the data in this previously unexplored high pT region. The single differential cross section as a function of four momentum transfer (Q2QE) now extends to 4 GeV2 with high statistics. The cross section as a function of Q2QE shows that the tuned simulations developed by the MINERvA collaboration that agreed well with the low energy beam measurements do not agree as well with the medium energy beam measurements. Newer neutrino interaction models such as the GENIE 3 tunes are better able to simulate the high Q2QE.
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Publication Date
November, 2022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.10402
Citation Information
Michael A Kordosky and The MINERvA Collaboration. "High-Statistics Measurement of Antineutrino Quasielastic-like scattering at Eν∼ 6~GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target" High Energy Physics - Experiment (2022)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael-kordosky/25/