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Measurement of inclusive charged-current νμ cross sections as a function of muon kinematics at ⟨Eν⟩∼6  GeV on hydrocarbon

D. Ruterbories1,*, A. Filkins2, Z. Ahmad Dar2,3, F. Akbar3, D. A. Andrade4, M. V. Ascencio5, A. Bashyal6, L. Bellantoni7, A. Bercellie1 et al.

M. Betancourt7, A. Bodek1, J. L. Bonilla4, A. Bravar8, H. Budd1, G. Caceres9, T. Cai1, M. F. Carneiro6,9,†, G. A. Díaz1, H. da Motta9, S. A. Dytman10, J. Felix4, L. Fields7,11, R. Fine1, A. M. Gago5, H. Gallagher12, R. Gran13, D. A. Harris14,7, S. Henry1, D. Jena7, S. Jena15, J. Kleykamp1, M. Kordosky2, D. Last16, T. Le12,17, A. Lozano9, X.-G. Lu18, E. Maher19, S. Manly1, W. A. Mann12, C. Mauger16, K. S. McFarland1, B. Messerly10,‡, J. Miller20, J. G. Morfín7, D. Naples10, J. K. Nelson2, C. Nguyen21, A. Norrick2, A. Olivier1, G. N. Perdue7,1, M. A. Ramírez16,4, H. Ray21, H. Schellman6, G. Silva9, C. J. Solano Salinas22, H. Su10, M. Sultana1, V. S. Syrotenko12, E. Valencia2,4, A. V. Waldron23, C. Wret1, B. Yaeggy20, K. Yang18, and L. Zazueta2

  • 1University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
  • 3AMU Campus, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh 202001, India
  • 4Campus León y Campus Guanajuato, Universidad de Guanajuato, Lascurain de Retana No. 5, Colonia Centro, Guanajuato 36000, Guanajuato México
  • 5Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Apartado 1761, Lima, Perú
  • 6Department of Physics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
  • 7Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
  • 8University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
  • 9Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 22290-180, Brazil
  • 10Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
  • 11Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
  • 12Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
  • 13Department of Physics, University of Minnesota—Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA
  • 14York University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3 Canada
  • 15Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Mohali, Knowledge City, SAS Nagar, Mohali—140306 Punjab, India
  • 16Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
  • 17Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
  • 18Oxford University, Department of Physics, Oxford OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom
  • 19Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, 375 Church Street, North Adams, Massachusetts 01247, USA
  • 20Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Avenida España 1680 Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile
  • 21University of Florida, Department of Physics, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
  • 22Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Apartado 31139, Lima, Perú
  • 23The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW, United Kingdom

  • *Corresponding author. druterbo@pas.rochester.edu
  • †Present address: Brookhaven National Laboratory.
  • ‡Present address: University of Minnesota.
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Phys. Rev. D 104, 092007 – Published 19 November, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.092007

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.

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Phys. Rev. D 104, 092007– Published 19 November, 2021
  • Received 2 July 2021
  • Accepted 28 September 2021
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