Title
Double-differential inclusive charged-current νμ cross sections on hydrocarbon in MINERvA at Eν ∼3.5 GeV
Date Issued
01 June 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Filkins A.
Ruterbories D.
Liu Y.
Ahmad Dar Z.
Akbar F.
Altinok O.
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.
Da Motta H.
Dytman S.A.
Díaz G.A.
Felix J.
Fields L.
Fine R.
Gallagher H.
Ghosh A.
Gran R.
Harris D.A.
Henry S.
Jena S.
Jena D.
Kleykamp J.
Kordosky M.
Last D.
Le T.
Leclerc J.
Lozano A.
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.
Nelson J.K.
Nguyen C.
Norrick A.
Olivier A.
Paolone V.
Perdue G.N.
Ramírez M.A.
Ransome R.D.
Ray H.
Schellman H.
Su H.
Sultana M.
Syrotenko V.S.
Valencia E.
Wospakrik M.
Wret C.
Yaeggy B.
Zazueta L.
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
MINERvA reports inclusive charged-current cross sections for muon neutrinos on hydrocarbon in the NuMI beamline. We measured the double-differential cross section in terms of the longitudinal and transverse muon momenta, as well as the single-differential cross sections in those variables. The data used in this analysis correspond to an exposure of 3.34×1020 protons on target with a peak neutrino energy of approximately 3.5 GeV. Measurements are compared to the GENIE, NuWro and GiBUU neutrino cross-section predictions, as well as a version of GENIE modified to produce better agreement with prior exclusive MINERvA measurements. None of the models or variants were able to successfully reproduce the data across the entire phase space, which includes areas dominated by each interaction channel.
Volume
101
Issue
11
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85087682895
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 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 (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); 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.
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