Title
Direct Measurement of Nuclear Dependence of Charged Current Quasielasticlike Neutrino Interactions Using MINERvA
Date Issued
2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Betancourt M.
Ghosh A.
Walton T.
Altinok O.
Bellantoni L.
Bercellie A.
Bodek A.
Bravar A.
Cai T.
Martinez Caicedo D.A.
Carneiro M.F.
Dytman S.A.
Díaz G.A.
Felix J.
Fields L.
Fine R.
Galindo R.
Gallagher H.
Ghosh A.
Golan T.
Gran R.
Harris D.A.
Higuera A.
Kiveni M.
Kleykamp J.
Le T.
Maher E.
Manly S.
Mann W.A.
Marshall C.M.
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
Charged-current νμ interactions on carbon, iron, and lead with a final state hadronic system of one or more protons with zero mesons are used to investigate the influence of the nuclear environment on quasielasticlike interactions. The transferred four-momentum squared to the target nucleus, Q2, is reconstructed based on the kinematics of the leading proton, and differential cross sections versus Q2 and the cross-section ratios of iron, lead, and carbon to scintillator are measured for the first time in a single experiment. The measurements show a dependence on the atomic number. While the quasielasticlike scattering on carbon is compatible with predictions, the trends exhibited by scattering on iron and lead favor a prediction with intranuclear rescattering of hadrons accounted for by a conventional particle cascade treatment. These measurements help discriminate between different models of both initial state nucleons and final state interactions used in the neutrino oscillation experiments. © 2017 American Physical Society. © 2017 American Physical Society.
Volume
119
Issue
8
Number
26
Language
English
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85029222606
PubMed ID
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
0031-9007
Source funding
Sponsor(s)
This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. Construction support was also granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Award No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for participating scientists was provided by NSF and DOE (USA), by CAPES and CNPq (Brazil), by CoNaCyT (Mexico), by Proyecto Basal FB 0821, CONICYT PIA ACT1413, Fondecyt 3170845 and 11130133 (Chile), by CONCYTEC, DGI-PUCP and IDI/IGI-UNI (Peru), and by Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF). We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data. We acknowledge the dedicated work of the Fermilab staff responsible for the operation and maintenance of the beam line and detector and the Fermilab Computing Division for support of data processing.
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