Simultaneous Measurement of νμ Quasielasticlike Cross Sections on CH, C, H2 O, Fe, and Pb as a Function of Muon Kinematics at MINERvA

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dc.contributor.affiliationPontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de Ciencias
dc.contributor.authorKleykamp, J.
dc.contributor.authorAkhter, S.
dc.contributor.authorAhmad Dar, Z.
dc.contributor.authorAnsari, V.
dc.contributor.authorAscencio-Sosa, M.V.
dc.contributor.authorAthar, M.
dc.contributor.authorBashyal, A.
dc.contributor.authorBercellie, A.
dc.contributor.authorBetancourt, M.
dc.contributor.authorBodek, A.
dc.contributor.authorBonilla, J.L.
dc.contributor.authorBravar, A.
dc.contributor.authorBudd, H.
dc.contributor.authorCaceres, G.
dc.contributor.authorCai, T.
dc.contributor.authorCarneiro, M.F.
dc.contributor.authorDíaz, G.A.
dc.contributor.authorDa-Motta, H.
dc.contributor.authorDytman, S.A.
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-13T16:59:43Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis Letter presents the first simultaneous measurement of the quasielasticlike neutrino-nucleus cross sections on C, water, Fe, Pb, and scintillator (hydrocarbon or CH) as a function of longitudinal and transverse muon momentum. The ratio of cross sections per nucleon between Pb and CH is always above unity and has a characteristic shape as a function of transverse muon momentum that evolves slowly as a function of longitudinal muon momentum. The ratio is constant versus longitudinal momentum within uncertainties above a longitudinal momentum of 4.5 GeV/c. The cross section ratios to CH for C, water, and Fe remain roughly constant with increasing longitudinal momentum, and the ratios between water or C to CH do not have any significant deviation from unity. Both the overall cross section level and the shape for Pb and Fe as a function of transverse muon momentum are not reproduced by current neutrino event generators. These measurements provide a direct test of nuclear effects in quasielasticlike interactions, which are major contributors to long-baseline neutrino oscillation data samples.
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding: This document was prepared by members of the MINERvA Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. These resources included support for the MINERvA construction project, and support for construction also was granted by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for participating scientists was provided by NSF and DOE (U.S.); by NSERC (Canada); by CAPES and CNPq (Brazil); by CoNaCyT (Mexico); by CONICYT PIA ACT1413, and Fondecyt 3170845 and 11130133 (Chile); by CONCYTEC (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica), DGI-PUCP (Dirección de Gestión de la Investigación—Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru), and VRI-UNI (Vice-Rectorate for Research of National University of Engineering) (Peru); NCN Opus Grant No. 2016/21/B/ST2/01092 (Poland); by Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK); by EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.161801
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14657/206416
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Society
dc.relation.ispartofurn:issn:0031-9007
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.sourcePhysical Review Letters; Vol. 13, Núm. 16 (2023)
dc.subjectPhysics
dc.subjectMuon
dc.subjectNuclear physics
dc.subjectMomentum (technical analysis)
dc.subjectNeutrino
dc.subjectMuon neutrino
dc.subjectNucleon
dc.subjectParticle physics
dc.subjectNeutrino oscillation
dc.subjectNeutrino detector
dc.subject.ocdehttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.03.04
dc.titleSimultaneous Measurement of νμ Quasielasticlike Cross Sections on CH, C, H2 O, Fe, and Pb as a Function of Muon Kinematics at MINERvA
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