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Antineutrino Charged-Current Reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer
Physical Review Letters
  • MINERvA Collaboration, MINERvA Collaboration
  • L. Aliaga, William & Mary
  • Michael Kordosky, William & Mary
  • Jeffrey K. Nelson, William & Mary
  • A. Norrick, William & Mary
  • E. Valencia, William & Mary
  • et al., et al.
Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Pub Date
6-1-2018
Publisher
American Physical Society
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract

We report on multinucleon effects in low momentum transfer (< 0.8 GeV/c) antineutrino interactions on plastic (CH) scintillator. These data are from the 2010-2011 antineutrino phase of the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab. The hadronic energy spectrum of this inclusive sample is well described when a screening effect at a low energy transfer and a two-nucleon knockout process are added to a relativistic Fermi gas model of quasielastic, Delta resonance, and higher resonance processes. In this analysis, model elements introduced to describe previously published neutrino results have quantitatively similar benefits for this antineutrino sample. We present the results as a double-differential cross section to accelerate the investigation of alternate models for antineutrino scattering off nuclei.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.221805
Citation Information
MINERvA Collaboration, L. Aliaga, Michael Kordosky, Jeffrey K. Nelson, et al.. "Antineutrino Charged-Current Reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer" Physical Review Letters Vol. 120 Iss. 22 (2018)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael-kordosky/4/