@article{1ce8c89314644f6dace8c3a23e6b057e,
title = "Simultaneous Measurement of Proton and Lepton Kinematics in Quasielasticlike νμ -Hydrocarbon Interactions from 2 to 20 GeV",
abstract = "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.",
author = "\{MINERvA Collaboration\} and D. Ruterbories and S. Akhter and \{Ahmad Dar\}, Z. and F. Akbar and V. Ansari and Ascencio, \{M. V.\} and \{Sajjad Athar\}, M. and A. Bashyal and A. Bercellie and M. Betancourt and A. Bodek and Bonilla, \{J. L.\} and A. Bravar and H. Budd and G. Caceres and T. Cai and Carneiro, \{M. F.\} and D{\'i}az, \{G. A.\} and \{Da Motta\}, H. and J. Felix and L. Fields and A. Filkins and R. Fine and Gago, \{A. M.\} and H. Gallagher and Gaur, \{P. K.\} and A. Ghosh and Gilligan, \{S. M.\} and R. Gran and E. Haase and Harris, \{D. A.\} and S. Henry and K. Jacobsen 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 E. Maher and S. Manly and Mann, \{W. A.\} and C. Mauger and McFarland, \{K. S.\} and McGowan, \{A. M.\} and B. Messerly and J. Miller and O. Moreno",
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year = "2022",
month = jul,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.021803",
language = "English",
volume = "129",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
number = "2",
}