Measurement of Final-State Correlations in Neutrino Muon-Proton Mesonless Production on Hydrocarbon at ⟨ E ν ⟩ = 3     GeV

Lu, X. -G.; Betancourt, M.; Walton, T.; Akbar, F.; Aliaga, L.; Altinok, O.; Andrade, D. A.; Ascencio, M.; Bellantoni, L.; Bercellie, A.; Bodek, A.; Bravar, A.; Budd, H.; Cai, T.; Carneiro, M. F.; Chaves, J.; Coplowe, D.; da Motta, H.; Dytman, S. A.; Díaz, G. A.; Felix, J.; Fields, L.; Fine, R.; Gago, A. M.; Galindo, R.; Gallagher, H.; Ghosh, A.; Gran, R.; Harris, D. A.; Henry, S.; Jena, S.; Jena, D.; Kleykamp, J.; Kordosky, M.; Le, T.; Maher, E.; Manly, S.; Mann, W. A.; Marshall, C. M.; McFarland, K. S.; McGowan, A. M.; Messerly, B.; Miller, J.; Mislivec, A.; Morfín, J. G.; Mousseau, J.; Naples, D.; Nelson, J. K.; Nguyen, C.; Norrick, A.; Nuruzzaman,; Olivier, A.; Paolone, V.; Patrick, C. E.; Perdue, G. N.; Ramírez, M. A.; Ransome, R. D.; Ren, L.; Rimal, D.; Rodrigues, P. A.; Ruterbories, D.; Schellman, H.; Sobczyk, J. T.; Salinas, C. J. Solano; Su, H.; Sultana, M.; Valencia, E.; Wark, D.; Weber, A.; Wolcott, J.; Wospakrik, M.; Yaeggy, B.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.022504

Title: Measurement of Final-State Correlations in Neutrino Muon-Proton Mesonless Production on Hydrocarbon at $⟨ E_{ν} ⟩ = 3 GeV$

Journal Article · Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.022504· OSTI ID:1459759

Lu, X. -G.; Betancourt, M.; Walton, T.; Akbar, F.; Aliaga, L.; Altinok, O.; Andrade, D. A.; Ascencio, M.; Bellantoni, L.; Bercellie, A.; Bodek, A.; Bravar, A.; Budd, H.; Cai, T.; Carneiro, M. F.; Chaves, J.; Coplowe, D.; da Motta, H.; Dytman, S. A.; Díaz, G. A. more »

Final-state kinematic imbalances are measured in mesonless production of ν_μ+A→μ^-+p+X in the MINERvA tracker. Initial- and final-state nuclear effects are probed using the direction of the μ^- - p transverse momentum imbalance and the initial-state momentum of the struck neutron. Differential cross sections are compared to predictions based on current approaches to medium modeling. These models underpredict the cross section at intermediate intranuclear momentum transfers that generally exceed the Fermi momenta. As neutrino interaction models need to correctly incorporate the effect of the nucleus in order to predict neutrino energy resolution in oscillation experiments, this result points to a region of phase space where additional cross section strength is needed in current models, and demonstrates a new technique that would be suitable for use in fine-grained liquid argon detectors where the effect of the nucleus may be even larger.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Organization:: MINERvA Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1459759

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1440009; OSTI ID: 1484215

Report Number(s):: arXiv:1805.05486; FERMILAB-PUB-18-179-ND; PRLTAO; 022504

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Vol. 121 Journal Issue: 2; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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