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Measurement of ν¯μ charged-current single π− production on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region using MINERvA

Authors :
M. Sultana
C. J. Solano Salinas
S. Jena
A. Bercellie
L. Zazueta
V. Paolone
Ronald Ransome
D. Coplowe
F. Akbar
G. A. Díaz
R. Fine
John Miller
X.-G. Lu
M. F. Carneiro
Jan T. Sobczyk
W. A. Mann
C. Mauger
A. Bravar
A. M. Gago
G. Caceres
Kevin Scott McFarland
D. Rimal
A. Norrick
D. A. Andrade
H. R. Gallagher
D. A. Harris
B. Yaeggy
H. S. Budd
A. Bodek
D. Naples
A. Filkins
M. V. Ascencio
E. Maher
Nuruzzaman
J. K. Nelson
S. A. Dytman
L. Fields
J. Kleykamp
D. Ruterbories
J. G. Morfín
T. Le
A. Olivier
M. Wospakrik
Gabriel Perdue
H. Ray
M. Betancourt
E. Valencia
L. Aliaga
S. Manly
V.S. Syrotenko
Anushree Ghosh
B. Messerly
R. Gran
T. Cai
H. Su
N. Fiza
C. Nguyen
S. Henry
H. Schellman
Ramírez
A. M. McGowan
M. Kordosky
J. L. Bonilla
A. Bashyal
Juan C. Felix
Source :
Physical Review D. 100
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
American Physical Society (APS), 2019.

Abstract

The semiexclusive channel ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}+\mathrm{CH}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{\ensuremath{-}}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}+\text{nucleon}(\mathrm{s})$ is analyzed using MINERvA exposed to the low-energy NuMI ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}$ beam with spectral peak at ${E}_{\ensuremath{\nu}}\ensuremath{\simeq}3\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}$. Differential cross sections for muon momentum and production angle, ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}$ kinetic energy and production angle, and for squared four-momentum transfer are reported, and the cross section $\ensuremath{\sigma}({E}_{\ensuremath{\nu}})$ is obtained over the range $1.5\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}\ensuremath{\le}{E}_{\ensuremath{\nu}}l20\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}$. Results are compared to GENIE and NuWro predictions and to published MINERvA cross sections for charged-current ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}({\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0})$ production by ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}({\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}})$ neutrinos. Disagreements between data and simulation are observed at very low and relatively high values for muon angle and for ${Q}^{2}$ that may reflect shortfalls in modeling of interactions on carbon. For ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}$ kinematic distributions, however, the data are consistent with the simulation and provide support for generator treatments of pion intranuclear scattering. Using signal-event subsamples that have reconstructed protons as well as ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}$ mesons, the $p{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}$ invariant mass distribution is obtained, and the decay polar and azimuthal angle distributions in the rest frame of the $p{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}$ system are measured in the region of $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}(1232{)}^{+}$ production, $Wl1.4\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}$.

Details

ISSN :
24700029 and 24700010
Volume :
100
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review D
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........69884e3b6a530bab3b84e397918b1c91
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.052008