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Measurement of inclusive charged-current vµ cross sections as a function of muon kinematics at (Ev) ~GeV on hydrocarbon

ContributorsMINERvA Collaboration
CollaboratorsBravar, Alessandro
Published inPhysical review. D, vol. 104, 092007
Publication date2021
First online date2021-11-19
Abstract

MINERvA presents a new analysis of inclusive charged-current neutrino interactions on a hydrocarbon target. We report single and double-differential cross sections in muon transverse and longitudinal momentum. These measurements are compared to neutrino interaction generator predictions from GENIE, NuWro, GiBUU, and NEUT. In addition, comparisons against models with different treatments of multinucleon correlations, nuclear effects, resonant pion production, and deep inelastic scattering are presented. The data recorded corresponds to 10.61×1020 protons on target with a peak neutrino energy of approximately 6 GeV. The higher energy and larger statistics of these data extend the kinematic range for model testing beyond previous MINERvA inclusive charged-current measurements. The results are not well modeled by several generator predictions using a variety of input models.

Keywords
  • Neutrino nucleus: interaction
  • Energy: high
  • Neutrino: energy
  • Pi: neutrinoproduction
  • Charged current
  • Inclusive production
  • Muon: transverse momentum
  • MINERvA
  • Kinematics
  • Statistics
  • Differential cross section: measured
  • Deep inelastic scattering
  • Transverse momentum dependence
  • Longitudinal momentum: dependence
  • Correlation
  • Nuclear matter: effect
  • Data analysis method
  • Numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
  • Experimental results
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MINERvA Collaboration. Measurement of inclusive charged-current vµ cross sections as a function of muon kinematics at (Ev) ~GeV on hydrocarbon. In: Physical review. D, 2021, vol. 104, p. 092007. doi: 10.1103/physrevd.104.092007
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.092007
Journal ISSN2470-0010
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