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Measurement of nuclear effects in neutrino-argon interactions using generalized kinematic imbalance variables with the MicroBooNE detector

P. Abratenko³⁸, O. Alterkait³⁸, D. Andrade Aldana¹⁵, L. Arellano²¹, J. Asaadi³⁷, A. Ashkenazi³⁵, S. Balasubramanian¹², B. Baller¹², G. Barr²⁸ et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration^*)

G. Barr²⁸, D. Barrow²⁸, J. Barrow^22,35, V. Basque¹², O. Benevides Rodrigues¹⁵, S. Berkman^12,24, A. Bhanderi²¹, A. Bhat⁷, M. Bhattacharya¹², M. Bishai³, A. Blake¹⁸, B. Bogart²³, T. Bolton¹⁷, J. Y. Book¹⁴, M. B. Brunetti⁴¹, L. Camilleri¹⁰, Y. Cao²¹, D. Caratelli⁴, F. Cavanna¹², G. Cerati¹², A. Chappell⁴¹, Y. Chen³¹, J. M. Conrad²², M. Convery³¹, L. Cooper-Troendle²⁹, J. I. Crespo-Anadón⁶, R. Cross⁴¹, M. Del Tutto¹², S. R. Dennis⁵, P. Detje⁵, A. Devitt¹⁸, R. Diurba², Z. Djurcic¹, R. Dorrill¹⁵, K. Duffy²⁸, S. Dytman²⁹, B. Eberly³³, P. Englezos³⁰, A. Ereditato^7,12, J. J. Evans²¹, R. Fine¹⁹, O. G. Finnerud²¹, W. Foreman¹⁵, B. T. Fleming⁷, N. Foppiani¹⁴, D. Franco⁷, A. P. Furmanski²⁵, F. Gao⁴, D. Garcia-Gamez¹³, S. Gardiner¹², G. Ge¹⁰, S. Gollapinni¹⁹, E. Gramellini²¹, P. Green²⁸, H. Greenlee¹², L. Gu¹⁸, W. Gu³, R. Guenette²¹, P. Guzowski²¹, L. Hagaman⁷, O. Hen²², R. Hicks¹⁹, C. Hilgenberg²⁵, G. A. Horton-Smith¹⁷, Z. Imani³⁸, B. Irwin²⁵, M. S. Ismail²⁹, R. Itay³¹, C. James¹², X. Ji^26,3, J. H. Jo³, R. A. Johnson⁸, Y.-J. Jwa¹⁰, D. Kalra¹⁰, N. Kamp²², G. Karagiorgi¹⁰, W. Ketchum¹², M. Kirby¹², T. Kobilarcik¹², I. Kreslo², M. B. Leibovitch⁴, I. Lepetic³⁰, J.-Y. Li¹¹, K. Li⁴², Y. Li³, K. Lin³⁰, B. R. Littlejohn¹⁵, H. Liu³, W. C. Louis¹⁹, X. Luo⁴, C. Mariani⁴⁰, D. Marsden²¹, J. Marshall⁴¹, N. Martinez¹⁷, D. A. Martinez Caicedo³², S. Martynenko³, A. Mastbaum³⁰, N. McConkey³⁹, V. Meddage¹⁷, J. Micallef^22,38, K. Miller⁷, A. Mogan⁹, T. Mohayai^12,16, M. Mooney⁹, A. F. Moor⁵, C. D. Moore¹², L. Mora Lepin²¹, M. M. Moudgalya²¹, S. Mulleriababu², D. Naples²⁹, A. Navrer-Agasson²¹, N. Nayak³, M. Nebot-Guinot¹¹, J. Nowak¹⁸, N. Oza¹⁰, O. Palamara¹², N. Pallat²⁵, V. Paolone²⁹, A. Papadopoulou ¹, V. Papavassiliou²⁷, H. B. Parkinson¹¹, S. F. Pate²⁷, N. Patel¹⁸, Z. Pavlovic¹², E. Piasetzky³⁵, I. Pophale¹⁸, X. Qian³, J. L. Raaf¹², V. Radeka³, A. Rafique¹, M. Reggiani-Guzzo²¹, L. Ren²⁷, L. Rochester³¹, J. Rodriguez Rondon³², M. Rosenberg³⁸, M. Ross-Lonergan¹⁹, C. Rudolf von Rohr², I. Safa¹⁰, G. Scanavini⁴², D. W. Schmitz⁷, A. Schukraft¹², W. Seligman¹⁰, M. H. Shaevitz¹⁰, R. Sharankova¹², J. Shi⁵, E. L. Snider¹², M. Soderberg³⁴, S. Söldner-Rembold²¹, J. Spitz²³, M. Stancari¹², J. St. John¹², T. Strauss¹², A. M. Szelc¹¹, W. Tang³⁶, N. Taniuchi⁵, K. Terao³¹, C. Thorpe^18,21, D. Torbunov³, D. Totani⁴, M. Toups¹², Y.-T. Tsai³¹, J. Tyler¹⁷, M. A. Uchida⁵, T. Usher³¹, B. Viren³, M. Weber², H. Wei²⁰, A. J. White⁷, S. Wolbers¹², T. Wongjirad³⁸, M. Wospakrik¹², K. Wresilo⁵, W. Wu^12,29, E. Yandel⁴, T. Yang¹², L. E. Yates¹², H. W. Yu³, G. P. Zeller¹², J. Zennamo¹², and C. Zhang³ (MicroBooNE Collaboration^*)

¹Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lemont, Illinois, 60439, USA
²Universität Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland
³Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York, 11973, USA
⁴University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 93106, USA
⁵University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
⁶Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid E-28040, Spain
⁷University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, USA
⁸University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45221, USA
⁹Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80523, USA
¹⁰Columbia University, New York, New York, 10027, USA
¹¹University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
¹²Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
¹³Universidad de Granada, Granada E-18071, Spain
¹⁴Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
¹⁵Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA
¹⁶Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
¹⁷Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kansas, 66506, USA
¹⁸Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
¹⁹Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, USA
²⁰Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, USA
²¹The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
²²Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA
²³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA
²⁴Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
²⁵University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455, USA
²⁶Nankai University, Nankai District, Tianjin 300071, China
²⁷New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003, USA
²⁸University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom
²⁹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, USA
³⁰Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854, USA
³¹SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA
³²South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota, 57701, USA
³³University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, 04104, USA
³⁴Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 13244, USA
³⁵Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 69978
³⁶University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA
³⁷University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, 76019, USA
³⁸Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 02155, USA
³⁹University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
⁴⁰Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, 24061, USA
⁴¹University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
⁴²Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520, USA

^*microboone_info@fnal.gov

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Phys. Rev. D 109, 092007 – Published 14 May, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.092007

Abstract

We present a set of new generalized kinematic imbalance variables that can be measured in neutrino scattering. These variables extend previous measurements of kinematic imbalance on the transverse plane and are more sensitive to modeling of nuclear effects. We demonstrate the enhanced power of these variables using simulation and then use the MicroBooNE detector to measure them for the first time. We report flux-integrated single- and double-differential measurements of charged-current muon neutrino scattering on argon using a topology with one muon and one proton in the final state as a function of these novel kinematic imbalance variables. These measurements allow us to demonstrate that the treatment of charged current quasielastic interactions in genie version 2 is inadequate to describe data. Further, they reveal tensions with more modern generator predictions particularly in regions of phase space where final state interactions are important.

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