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Title: First Double-Differential Measurement of Kinematic Imbalance in Neutrino Interactions with the MicroBooNE Detector

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Tufts University, Medford, MA (United States). MicroBooNE Collaboration. et al.
  2. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  3. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

We report the first measurement of flux-integrated double-differential quasielasticlike neutrino-argon cross sections, which have been made using the Booster Neutrino Beam and the MicroBooNE detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data are presented as a function of kinematic imbalance variables which are sensitive to nuclear ground-state distributions and hadronic reinteraction processes. We find that the measured cross sections in different phase-space regions are sensitive to different nuclear effects. Therefore, they enable the impact of specific nuclear effects on the neutrino-nucleus interaction to be isolated more completely than was possible using previous single-differential cross section measurements. Our results provide precision data to help test and improve neutrino-nucleus interaction models. They further support ongoing neutrino-oscillation studies by establishing phase-space regions where precise reaction modeling has already been achieved.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
Contributing Organization:
MicroBooNE Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359; AC02-06CH11357; SC0023471; SC0007859; SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1998796
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1909880; OSTI ID: 2242428; OSTI ID: 2349013; OSTI ID: 2440535
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-23-004-ND; arXiv:2301.03706; BNL-226079-2024-JAAM; oai:inspirehep.net:2621898
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 131, Issue 10; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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