Comparison of $$\nu_\mu$$-Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions

Journal Article · 17 March 2019 · European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6742-3 · OSTI ID:1440008

Adams, C.; An, R.; Anthony, J.; Asaadi, J.; Auger, M.; Balasubramanian, S.; Baller, B.; Barnes, C.; Barr, G.; Bass, M.; Bay, F.; Bhat, A.; Bhattacharya, K.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Bolton, T.; Camilleri, L.; Caratelli, D.; Castillo Fernandez, R.; Cavanna, F. ; Cerati, G.; Chen, H.; Chen, Y.; Church, E.; Cianci, D.; Cohen, E.; Collin, G. H.; Conrad, J. M.; Convery, M.; Cooper-Troendle, L.; Crespo-Anadón, J. I.; Del Tutto, M.; Devitt, D.; Diaz, A.; Dytman, S.; Eberly, B.; Ereditato, A.; Escudero Sanchez, L.; Esquivel, J.; Evans, J. J.; Fadeeva, A. A.; Fleming, B. T.; Foreman, W.; Furmanski, A. P.; Garcia-Gamez, D.; Garvey, G. T.; Genty, V.; Goeldi, D.; Gollapinni, S.; Gramellini, E.; Greenlee, H.; Grosso, R.; Guenette, R.; Guzowski, P.; Hackenburg, A.; Hamilton, P.; Hen, O.; Hewes, J.; Hill, C.; Ho, J.; Horton-Smith, G. A.; Hourlier, A.; Huang, E. -C.; James, C.; de Vries, J. Jan; Jiang, L.; Johnson, R. A.; Joshi, J.; Jostlein, H.; Jwa, Y. -J.; Kaleko, D.; Karagiorgi, G.; Ketchum, W.; Kirby, B.; Kirby, M.; Kobilarcik, T.; Kreslo, I.; Li, Y.; Lister, A.; Littlejohn, B. R.; Lockwitz, S.; Lorca, D.; Louis, W. C.; Luethi, M.; Lundberg, B.; Luo, X.; Marchionni, A.; Marcocci, S.; Mariani, C.; Marshall, J.; Martinez Caicedo, D. A.; Mastbaum, A.; Meddage, V.; Mettler, T.; Miceli, T.; Mills, G. B.; Mogan, A.; Moon, J.; Mooney, M.; Moore, C. D.; Mousseau, J.; Murphy, M.; Murrells, R.; Naples, D.; Nienaber, P.; Nowak, J.; Palamara, O.; Pandey, V.; Paolone, V.; Papadopoulou, A.; Papavassiliou, V.; Pate, S. F.; Pavlovic, Z.; Piasetzky, E.; Porzio, D.; Pulliam, G.; Qian, X.; Raaf, J. L.; Rafique, A. ; Rochester, L.; Ross-Lonergan, M.; von Rohr, C. Rudolf; Russell, B.; Schmitz, D. W.; Schukraft, A.; Seligman, W.; Shaevitz, M. H.; Sinclair, J.; Smith, A.; Snider, E. L.; Soderberg, M.; Söldner-Rembold, S.; Soleti, S. R.; Spentzouris, P.; Spitz, J.; John, J. St.; Strauss, T.; Sutton, K.; Sword-Fehlberg, S.; Szelc, A. M.; Tagg, N.; Tang, W.; Terao, K.; Thomson, M.; Toups, M.; Tsai, Y. -T.; Tufanli, S.; Usher, T.; Van De Pontseele, W.; Van de Water, R. G.; Viren, B.; Weber, M.; Wei, H.; Wickremasinghe, D. A.; Wierman, K.; Williams, Z.; Wolbers, S.; Wongjirad, T.; Woodruff, K.; Yang, T.; Yarbrough, G.; Yates, L. E.; Zeller, G. P.; Zennamo, J.; Zhang, C.

We measure a large set of observables in inclusive charged current muon neutrino scattering on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber operating at Fermilab. We evaluate three neutrino interaction models based on the widely used GENIE event generator using these observables. The measurement uses a data set consisting of neutrino interactions with a final state muon candidate fully contained within the MicroBooNE detector. These data were collected in 2016 with the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam, which has an average neutrino energy of $$800~\hbox {MeV}$$ , using an exposure corresponding to $$ 5.0\times 10^{19}$$ protons-on-target. The analysis employs fully automatic event selection and charged particle track reconstruction and uses a data-driven technique to separate neutrino interactions from cosmic ray background events. We find that GENIE models consistently describe the shapes of a large number of kinematic distributions for fixed observed multiplicity.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• Contributing Organization: MicroBooNE; MicroBooNE Collaboration
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359; AC02-76SF00515; SC0007859; SC0007881; SC0012704
• OSTI ID: 1440008
• Report Number(s): BNL--211354-2019-JAAM; FERMILAB-PUB-18-077-ND; arXiv:1805.06887; oai:inspirehep.net:1673688
• Journal Information: European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, Journal Name: European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 79; ISSN 1434-6044
• Publisher: SpringerCopyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English