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

MINERvA collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.021803

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

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

Original language	English (US)
Article number	021803
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	129
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.021803
State	Published - Jul 8 2022
Externally published	Yes

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

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