Simultaneous Measurement of Proton and Lepton Kinematics in Quasielasticlike νμ-Hydrocarbon Interactions from 2 to 20 GeV
| dc.contributor.author | Jena, Satyajit | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-11T10:13:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-08-11T10:13:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description | Only IISER Mohali authors are available in the record. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 ejection from struck nuclei. The separate determination of leptonic and hadronic variables can inform experimental approaches to neutrino-energy estimation. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Physical Review Letters, 129(2), 21803. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.021803 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4514 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | American Physical Society | en_US |
| dc.subject | Simultaneous | en_US |
| dc.subject | Lepton Kinematics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Quasielasticlike ν μ - | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hydrocarbon Interactions | en_US |
| dc.title | Simultaneous Measurement of Proton and Lepton Kinematics in Quasielasticlike νμ-Hydrocarbon Interactions from 2 to 20 GeV | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |