@article{220019fef8e04d67a655a8050067456c,
title = "Measurement of the multineutron ν ¯ μ charged current differential cross section at low available energy on hydrocarbon",
abstract = "Neutron production in antineutrino interactions can lead to bias in energy reconstruction in neutrino oscillation experiments, but these interactions have rarely been studied. MINERvA previously studied neutron production at an average antineutrino energy of ∼3 GeV in 2016 and found deficiencies in leading models. In this paper, the MINERvA 6 GeV average antineutrino energy dataset is shown to have similar disagreements. A measurement of the cross section for an antineutrino to produce two or more neutrons and have low visible energy is presented as an experiment-independent way to explore neutron production modeling. This cross section disagrees with several leading models' predictions. Neutron modeling techniques from nuclear physics are used to quantify neutron detection uncertainties on this result.",
author = "{(MINERν A Collaboration)} and A. Olivier and T. Cai and S. Akhter and {Ahmad Dar}, Z. and V. Ansari and Ascencio, {M. V.} and {Sajjad Athar}, M. and A. Bashyal and A. Bercellie and M. Betancourt and Bonilla, {J. L.} and A. Bravar and H. Budd and G. Caceres and D{\'i}az, {G. A.} and J. Felix and L. Fields and A. Filkins and R. Fine and Gago, {A. M.} and Gaur, {P. K.} and Gilligan, {S. M.} and R. Gran and E. Granados and Harris, {D. A.} and Hart, {A. L.} and D. Jena and S. Jena and J. Kleykamp and A. Klustov{\'a} and M. Kordosky and D. Last and A. Lozano and Lu, {X. G.} and S. Manly and Mann, {W. A.} and C. Mauger and McFarland, {K. S.} and B. Messerly and O. Moreno and Morf{\'i}n, {J. G.} and D. Naples and Nelson, {J. K.} and C. Nguyen and V. Paolone and Perdue, {G. N.} and C. Pernas and Plows, {K. J.} and Ram{\'i}rez, {M. A.} and H. Ray",
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year = "2023",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.108.112010",
language = "English",
volume = "108",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
number = "11",
}