Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasielastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at $$E_{\nu}$$ $$\sim$$3.5 GeV
- Rio de Janeiro, CBPF
In this thesis, we present the measurement of the charged-current quasi-elastic interaction on polystyrene scintillator (CH) in the MINERA detector at neutrino energy between 1.5 GeV and 10.0 GeV ( 3:5 GeV). The data used was taken between March and July 2010, with a total of 9.421019 protons-on-target. Interactions were selected by requiring a negative muon and low calorimetric recoil energy separated from the interaction vertex. The analysis was performed on 29,620 charged current quasi-elastic interaction candidates in MINERA's ne-grained scintillator tracker region. The measurement is reported as a ux-averaged single dierential cross section in Q2 and compared with the prediction of dierent theoretical models in Monte Carlo simulations. Dierence in shape between the measured d=dQ2 QE and the expectation from a model based on independent nucleons in a relativistic fermi gas is found.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1515051
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-MASTERS-2013-11; 1735521
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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