Title
Simultaneous Measurement of Proton and Lepton Kinematics in Quasielasticlike νμ -Hydrocarbon Interactions from 2 to 20 GeV
Date Issued
08 July 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Ruterbories D.
Akhter S.
Ahmad Dar Z.
Akbar F.
Ansari V.
Ascencio M.V.
Sajjad Athar M.
Bashyal A.
Bercellie A.
Betancourt M.
Bodek A.
Bonilla J.L.
Bravar A.
Budd H.
Caceres G.
Cai T.
Carneiro M.F.
Díaz G.A.
Da Motta H.
Felix J.
Fields L.
Filkins A.
Fine R.
Gallagher H.
Gaur P.K.
Ghosh A.
Gilligan S.M.
Gran R.
Haase E.
Harris D.A.
Henry S.
Jacobsen K.
Jena D.
Jena S.
Kleykamp J.
Klustová A.
Kordosky M.
Last D.
Lozano A.
Lu X.G.
Maher E.
Manly S.
Mann W.A.
Mauger C.
McFarland K.S.
McGowan A.M.
Messerly B.
Miller J.
Moreno O.
Morfín J.G.
Naples D.
Nelson J.K.
Nguyen C.
Olivier A.
Paolone V.
Perdue G.N.
Plows K.J.
Ramírez M.A.
Ransome R.D.
Ray H.
Schellman H.
Su H.
Sultana M.
Syrotenko V.S.
Valencia E.
Vaughan N.H.
Waldron A.V.
Wascko M.O.
Wret C.
Yaeggy B.
Zazueta L.
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
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.
Volume
129
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85134481152
PubMed ID
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
Sponsor(s)
This document was prepared by members of the MINERvA Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. These resources included support for the MINERvA construction project, and support for construction also was granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Grant 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 ANID PIA/APOYO AFB180002, CONICYT PIA ACT1413, and Fondecyt 3170845 and 11130133 (Chile); by CONCYTEC (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica), DGI-PUCP (Dirección de Gestión de la Investigación—Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru), and VRI-UNI (Vice-Rectorate for Research of National University of Engineering) (Peru); NCN Opus Grant No. 2016/21/B/ST2/01092 (Poland); by Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK); by EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action; by an Imperial College London President’s PhD Scholarship. D. R. gratefully acknowledges support from a Cottrell Postdoctoral Fellowship, Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement Grant No. 27467 and National Science Foundation Grant No. CHE2039044. We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data. Finally, we thank the staff of Fermilab for support of the beam line, the detector, and computing infrastructure.
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