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Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasielastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E-v similar to 3.5 GeV
Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasielastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E-v similar to 3.5 GeV
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2013
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Fiorentini, GA
Schmitz, DW
Rodrigues, PA
Aliaga, L
Altinok, O
Baldin, B
Baumbaugh, A
Bodek, A
Boehnlein, D
Boyd, S
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American Physical Society
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We report a study of νμ charged-current quasielastic 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 μ- and low calorimetric recoil energy separated from the interaction vertex. We measure the flux-averaged differential cross section, dσ/dQ2, and study the low energy particle content of the final state. Deviations are found between the measured dσ/dQ2 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.
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This work was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory under United States Department of Energy (DOE) Office of High Energy Physics Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 which included the MINERvA construction project. Construction support also was granted by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for participating scientists was provided by NSF and DOE (USA) by CAPES and CNPq (Brazil), by CoNaCyT (Mexico), by CONICYT (Chile), by CONCYTEC, DGI-PUCP, and IDI/IGI-UNI (Peru), by Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF) and by RAS and the Russian Ministry of Education and Science (Russia). We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data. Finally, we thank the staff of Fermilab for support of the beam line and detector.
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Física Nuclear,
Dispersión Dinámica de Luz