Title
Measurement of the muon antineutrino double-differential cross section for quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at Eν∼3.5 GeV
Date Issued
01 March 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Patrick C.E.
Bashyal A.
Bellantoni L.
Bercellie A.
Betancourt M.
Bodek A.
Bravar A.
Budd H.
Caceres G.F.R.V.
Carneiro M.F.
Chavarria E.
Da Motta H.
Dytman S.A.
Díaz G.A.
Felix J.
Fields L.
Fine R.
Galindo R.
Gallagher H.
Ghosh A.
Gran R.
Han J.Y.
Harris D.A.
Henry S.
Jena D.
Kleykamp J.
Kordosky M.
Le T.
Lu X.G.
Maher E.
Manly S.
Mann W.A.
Marshall C.M.
McFarland K.S.
McGowan A.M.
Messerly B.
Miller J.
Mislivec A.
Morfín J.G.
Mousseau J.
Naples D.
Nelson J.K.
Norrick A.
Nowak G.M.
Nuruzzaman
Paolone V.
Perdue G.N.
Peters E.
Ramírez M.A.
Ransome R.D.
Ray H.
Ren L.
Rodrigues P.A.
Ruterbories D.
Schellman H.
Sultana M.
Teklu A.M.
Valencia E.
Wolcott J.
Wospakrik M.
Yaeggy B.
Zhang D.
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
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.
Volume
97
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85044849470
Source
Physical Review D
ISSN of the container
24700010
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 Proyecto Basal FB 0821, CONICYT PIA ACT1413, Fondecyt 3170845 and 11130133 (Chile), by DGI-PUCP and UDI/VRI-IGI-UNI (Peru), the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK), and by the Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF). 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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