Simultaneous Measurement of Proton and Lepton Kinematics in Quasielasticlike νμ -Hydrocarbon Interactions from 2 to 20 GeV

MINERvA Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.021803

Simultaneous Measurement of Proton and Lepton Kinematics in Quasielasticlike νμ -Hydrocarbon Interactions from 2 to 20 GeV

MINERvA Collaboration

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University of Rochester
Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University
College of William and Mary
Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Peru
Iowa State University
Oregon State University
Argonne National Laboratory
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Universidad de Guanajuato
University of Geneva
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
University of California at Davis
Brookhaven National Laboratory
University of Notre Dame
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Tufts University
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria
University of Minnesota Duluth
York University Toronto
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali
University of Mississippi
Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
University of Warwick
University of Oxford
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
University of Pittsburgh
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
University of Florida
Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Universidad Nacional de Ingenieriá
University of Cincinnati

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	021803
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	129
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.021803
State	Published - 8 Jul 2022

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Simultaneous Measurement of Proton and Lepton Kinematics in Quasielasticlike νμ -Hydrocarbon Interactions from 2 to 20 GeV

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