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, Xianguo
- 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.
- HASH(0x5595cd666ae8)
DOIAbstract
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 ν_{μ} quasielastic-like reactions using the hydrocarbon medium of the MINERvA detector exposed to a wideband beam spanning 2≤E_{ν}≤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 ...
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