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Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_{\nu} ~ 3.5 GeV

Authors :
The MINERvA collaboration
Fiorentini, G. A.
Schmitz, D. W.
Rodrigues, P. A.
Aliaga, L.
Altinok, O.
Baldin, B.
Baumbaugh, A.
Bodek, A.
Boehnlein, D.
Boyd, S.
Bradford, R.
Brooks, W. K.
Budd, H.
Butkevich, A.
Caicedo, D. A. Martinez
Castromonte, C. M.
Christy, M. E.
Chung, H.
Chvojka, J.
Clark, M.
da Motta, H.
Damiani, D. S.
Danko, I.
Datta, M.
Day, M.
DeMaat, R.
Devan, J.
Draeger, E.
Dytman, S. A.
Díaz, G. A.
Eberly, B.
Edmondson, D. A.
Felix, J.
Fitzpatrick, T.
Fields, L.
Gago, A. M.
Gallagher, H.
George, C. A.
Gielata, J. A.
Gingu, C.
Gobbi, B.
Gran, R.
Grossman, N.
Hanson, J.
Harris, D. A.
Heaton, J.
Higuera, A.
Howley, I. J.
Hurtado, K.
Jerkins, M.
Kafka, T.
Kaisen, J.
Kanter, M. O.
Keppel, C. E.
Kilmer, J.
Kordosky, M.
Krajeski, A. H.
Kulagin, S. A.
Le, T.
Lee, H.
Leister, A. G.
Locke, G.
Maggi, G.
Maher, E.
Manly, S.
Mann, W. A.
Marshall, C. M.
McFarland, K. S.
McGivern, C. L.
McGowan, A. M.
Mislivec, A.
Morfń, J. G.
Mousseau, J.
Naples, D.
Nelson, J. K.
Niculescu, G.
Niculescu, I.
Ochoa, N.
O'Connor, C. D.
Olsen, J.
Osmanov, B.
Osta, J.
Palomino, J. L.
Paolone, V.
Park, J.
Patrick, C. E.
Perdue, G. N.
Peña, C.
Rakotondravohitra, L.
Ransome, R. D.
Ray, H.
Ren, L.
Rude, C.
Sassin, K. E.
Schellman, H.
Schneider, R. M.
Schulte, E. C.
Simon, C.
Snider, F. D.
Snyder, M. C.
Sobczyk, J. T.
Salinas, C. J. Solano
Tagg, N.
Tan, W.
Tice, B. G.
Tzanakos, G.
Velásquez, J. P.
Walding, J.
Walton, T.
Wolcott, J.
Wolthuis, B. A.
Woodward, N.
Zavala, G.
Zeng, H. B.
Zhang, D.
Zhu, L. Y.
Ziemer, B. P.
Source :
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 022502 (2013)
Publication Year :
2013

Abstract

We report a study of muon neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic events in the segmented scintillator inner tracker of the MINERvA experiment running in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The events were selected by requiring a {\mu}^- and low calorimetric recoil energy separated from the interaction vertex. We measure the flux-averaged differential cross-section, d{\sigma}/dQ^2, and study the low energy particle content of the final state. Deviations are found between the measured d{\sigma}/dQ^2 and the expectations of a model of independent nucleons in a relativistic Fermi gas. We also observe an excess of energy near the vertex consistent with multiple protons in the final state.<br />Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures. Added correlation between neutrino and anti-neutrino result in ancillary files (CSV)

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Subjects :
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment

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Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 022502 (2013)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1305.2243
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.022502
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