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Title: Study of quasielastic scattering using charged-current νμ-iron interactions in the MINOS near detector

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
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  1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States). et al.

Kinematic distributions from an inclusive sample of 1.41×106 charged-current νμ interactions on iron, obtained using the MINOS near detector exposed to a wide-band beam with peak flux at 3 GeV, are compared to a conventional treatment of neutrino scattering within a Fermi gas nucleus. Results are also used to guide the selection of a subsample enriched in quasielastic νμFe interactions, containing an estimated 123,000 quasielastic events of incident energies 1 < Eν < 8 GeV, with < Eν > = 2.79 GeV. Four additional subsamples representing topological and kinematic sideband regions to quasielastic scattering are also selected for the purpose of evaluating backgrounds. Comparisons using subsample distributions in four-momentum transfer Q2 show the Monte Carlo model to be inadequate at low Q2. Its shortcomings are remedied via inclusion of a Q2-dependent suppression function for baryon resonance production, developed from the data. A chi-square fit of the resulting Monte Carlo simulation to the shape of the Q2 distribution for the quasielastic-enriched sample is carried out with the axial-vector mass MA of the dipole axial-vector form factor of the neutron as a free parameter. Furthermore, the effective MA which best describes the data is 1.23+0.13-0.09(fit)+0.12-0.15(syst) GeV.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
MINOS Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1226301
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1181052
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-14-401-E; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1410.8613; TRN: US1601148
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 91, Issue 01; ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 53 works
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