Title
Measurement of ν ̄ μ charged-current single π-production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using
Date Issued
16 September 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Le T.
Akbar F.
Andrade D.A.
Ascencio M.V.
Bashyal A.
Bercellie A.
Betancourt M.
Bodek A.
Bonilla J.L.
Bravar A.
Budd H.
Caceres G.
Cai T.
Carneiro M.F.
Coplowe D.
Dytman S.A.
Díaz G.A.
Felix J.
Fields L.
Filkins A.
Fine R.
Fiza N.
Gallagher H.
Ghosh A.
Gran R.
Harris D.A.
Henry S.
Jena S.
Kleykamp J.
Kordosky M.
Last D.
Lu X.G.
Maher E.
Manly S.
Mann W.A.
Mauger C.
McFarland K.S.
McGowan A.M.
Messerly B.
Miller J.
Morfín J.G.
Naples D.
Nelson J.K.
Nguyen C.
Norrick A.
Nuruzzaman N.
Olivier A.
Paolone V.
Perdue G.N.
Ramírez M.A.
Ransome R.D.
Ray H.
Rimal D.
Ruterbories D.
Schellman H.
Sobczyk J.T.
Su H.
Sultana M.
Syrotenko V.S.
Valencia E.
Wospakrik M.
Yaeggy B.
Zazueta L.
Tufts University
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
Aligarh Muslim University
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
The antineutrino scattering channel ν̄μCH→μ+π-X (nucleon(s)) is analyzed in the incident energy range 1.5 to 10 GeV using the MINERvA detector at Fermilab. Differential cross sections are reported as functions of μ+ momentum and production angle, π- kinetic energy and production angle, and antineutrino energy and squared four-momentum transfer. Distribution shapes are generally reproduced by simulations based on the GENIE, NuWro, and GiBUU event generators, however GENIE (GiBUU) overestimates (underestimates) the cross section normalizations by 8% (10%). Comparisons of data with the GENIE-based reference simulation probe conventional treatments of cross sections and pion intranuclear rescattering. The distribution of nontrack vertex energy is used to decompose the signal sample into reaction categories, and cross sections are determined for the exclusive reactions μ+π-n and μ+π-p. A similar treatment applied to the published MINERvA sample ν̄μCH→μ+π0X[nucleon(s)] has determined the μ+π0n cross section, and the latter is used with σ(π-n) and σ(π-p) to carry out an isospin decomposition of ν̄μ-induced CC(π). The ratio of magnitudes and relative phase for isospin amplitudes A3 and A1 thereby obtained are: Rν̄=0.99±0.19 and φν̄=93°±7°. Our results are in agreement with bubble chamber measurements made four decades ago.
Volume
100
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85072976485
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 CONCYTEC (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnologa e Innovacin Tecnolgica), DGI-PUCP (Direccin de Gestin de la Investigacin—Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Peru), and VRI-UNI (Vice-Rectorate for Research of National University of Engineering) (Peru); and by the Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF); NCN Opus Grant No. 2016/21/B/ST2/01092 (Poland); by Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK). 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. 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. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.
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