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

Ruterbories, D.; Akhter, S.; Ahmad Dar, Z.; Akbar, F.; Ansari, V.; Ascencio, M. V.; Sajjad Athar, M.; Bashyal, A.; Bercellie, A.; Betancourt, M.; Bodek, A.; Bonilla, J. L.; Bravar, A.; Budd, H.; Caceres, G.; Cai, T.; Carneiro, M. F.; Díaz, G. A.; da Motta, H.; Felix, J.; Fields, L.; Filkins, A.; Fine, R.; Gago, A. M.; Gallagher, H.; Gaur, P. K.; Ghosh, A.; Gilligan, S. M.; Gran, R.; Haase, E.; Harris, D. A.; Henry, S.; Jacobsen, K.; Jena, D.; Jena, S.; Kleykamp, J.; Klustová, A.; Kordosky, M.; Last, D.; Lozano, A.; Lu, X. -G.; Maher, E.; Manly, S.; Mann, W. A.; Mauger, C.; McFarland, K. S.; McGowan, A. M.; Messerly, B.; Miller, J.; Moreno, O.; Morfín, J. G.; Naples, D.; Nelson, J. K.; Nguyen, C.; Olivier, A.; Paolone, V.; Perdue, G. N.; Plows, K. -J.; Ramírez, M. A.; Ransome, R. D.; Ray, H.; Schellman, H.; Solano Salinas, C. J.; Su, H.; Sultana, M.; Syrotenko, V. S.; Valencia, E.; Vaughan, N. H.; Waldron, A. V.; Wascko, M. O.; Wret, C.; Yaeggy, B.; Zazueta, L.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.021803

Title: Simultaneous Measurement of Proton and Lepton Kinematics in Quasielasticlike $ν_{μ}$ -Hydrocarbon Interactions from 2 to 20 GeV

Journal Article · Wed Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.021803· OSTI ID:1874997

; Akhter, S.; Ahmad Dar, Z.; Akbar, F.; Ansari, V.; Ascencio, M. V.; Sajjad Athar, M.; Bashyal, A.; Bercellie, A.; Betancourt, M.; Bodek, A.; Bonilla, J. L.; Bravar, A.; Budd, H.; Caceres, G.; Cai, T.; Carneiro, M. F.; Díaz, G. A.; da Motta, H.; Felix, J. more »

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 v_μ quasielastic-like reactions using the hydrocarbon medium of the MINERvA detector exposed to a wideband beam spanning 2 ≤ E_v ≤ 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.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)

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

Contributing Organization:: MINERvA Collaboration; MINERvA collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; SC0008475

OSTI ID:: 1874997

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1861819; OSTI ID: 1907252

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-22-130-PPD-QIS-SCD; arXiv:2203.08022; PRLTAO; 021803

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Vol. 129 Journal Issue: 2; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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