Title
Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasielastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E-v similar to 3.5 GeV
Date Issued
2013
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Fiorentini, GA
Schmitz, DW
Rodrigues, PA
Aliaga, L
Altinok, O
Baldin, B
Baumbaugh, A
Bodek, A
Boehnlein, D
Boyd, S
Bradford, R
Brooks, WK
Budd, H
Butkevich, A
Caicedo, DAM
Christy, ME
Chung, H
Chvojka, J
Clark, M
da Motta, H
Damiani, DS
Danko, I
Datta, M
Day, M
DeMaat, R
Devan, J
Draeger, E
Dytman, SA
Diaz, GA
Eberly, B
Abstract
We report a study of νμ charged-current quasielastic events in the segmented scintillator inner tracker of the MINERvA experiment running in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The events were selected by requiring a μ- and low calorimetric recoil energy separated from the interaction vertex. We measure the flux-averaged differential cross section, dσ/dQ2, and study the low energy particle content of the final state. Deviations are found between the measured dσ/dQ2 and the expectations of a model of independent nucleons in a relativistic Fermi gas. We also observe an excess of energy near the vertex consistent with multiple protons in the final state. © 2013 American Physical Society.
Volume
111
Issue
2
Number
181
Language
English
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84880141654
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
0031-9007
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