Study of quasielastic scattering using charged-current νμ-iron interactions in the MINOS near detector

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作者
Adamson, P. [7 ]
Anghel, I. [1 ,14 ]
Aurisano, A. [6 ]
Barr, G. [20 ]
Bishai, M. [2 ]
Blake, A. [4 ]
Bock, G. J. [7 ]
Bogert, D. [7 ]
Cao, S. V. [28 ]
Castromonte, C. M. [8 ]
Childress, S. [7 ]
Coelho, J. A. B. [5 ,29 ]
Corwin, L. [13 ]
Cronin-Hennessy, D. [17 ]
de Jong, J. K. [20 ]
Devan, A. V. [31 ]
Devenish, N. E. [26 ]
Diwan, M. V. [2 ]
Escobar, C. O. [5 ]
Evans, J. J. [16 ]
Falk, E. [26 ]
Feldman, G. J. [9 ]
Frohne, M. V. [10 ]
Gallagher, H. R. [29 ]
Gomes, R. A. [8 ]
Goodman, M. C. [1 ]
Gouffon, P. [23 ]
Graf, N. [12 ]
Gran, R. [18 ]
Grzelak, K. [30 ]
Habig, A. [18 ]
Hahn, S. R. [7 ]
Hartnell, J. [26 ]
Hatcher, R. [7 ]
Holin, A. [15 ]
Huang, J. [28 ]
Hylen, J. [7 ]
Irwin, G. M. [25 ]
Isvan, Z. [2 ,21 ]
James, C. [7 ]
Jensen, D. [7 ]
Kafka, T. [29 ]
Kasahara, S. M. S. [17 ]
Koizumi, G. [7 ]
Kordosky, M. [31 ]
Kreymer, A. [7 ]
Lang, K. [28 ]
Ling, J. [2 ]
Litchfield, P. J. [17 ,22 ]
Lucas, P. [7 ]
机构
[1] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[2] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[3] CALTECH, Lauritsen Lab, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[4] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[5] Univ Estadual Campinas, IFGW UNICAMP, BR-13083970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
[6] Univ Cincinnati, Dept Phys, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[7] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[8] Univ Fed Goias, Inst Fis, BR-74001970 Goiania, Go, Brazil
[9] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[10] Holy Cross Coll, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
[11] Univ Houston, Dept Phys, Houston, TX 77204 USA
[12] IIT, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60616 USA
[13] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[14] Iowa State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[15] UCL, Dept Phys & Astron, London WC1E 6BT, England
[16] Univ Manchester, Sch Phys & Astron, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[17] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[18] Univ Minnesota, Dept Phys, Duluth, MN 55812 USA
[19] Otterbein Coll, Westerville, OH 43081 USA
[20] Univ Oxford, Subdept Particle Phys, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[21] Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Phys & Astron, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[22] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Sci & Technol Facil Council, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[23] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, BR-05315970 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[24] Univ S Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[25] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[26] Univ Sussex, Dept Phys & Astron, Brighton BN1 9QH, E Sussex, England
[27] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Phys, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[28] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Phys, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[29] Tufts Univ, Dept Phys, Medford, MA 02155 USA
[30] Univ Warsaw, Dept Phys, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
[31] Coll William & Mary, Dept Phys, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2015年 / 91卷 / 01期
基金
巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
AXIAL-VECTOR MASS; CROSS-SECTIONS; NEUTRINO; CALIBRATION; SIMULATION; ELECTRON; MODEL;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.012005
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Kinematic distributions from an inclusive sample of 1.41 x 10(6) charged-current nu(mu) interactions on iron, obtained using the MINOS near detector exposed to a wide-band beam with peak flux at 3 GeV, are compared to a conventional treatment of neutrino scattering within a Fermi gas nucleus. Results are used to guide the selection of a subsample enriched in quasielastic nu Fe-mu interactions, containing an estimated 123,000 quasielastic events of incident energies 1 < E-nu < 8 GeV, with < E-nu > = 2.79 GeV. Four additional subsamples representing topological and kinematic sideband regions to quasielastic scattering are also selected for the purpose of evaluating backgrounds. Comparisons using subsample distributions in four-momentum transfer Q(2) show the Monte Carlo model to be inadequate at low Q(2). Its shortcomings are remedied via inclusion of a Q(2)-dependent suppression function for baryon resonance production, developed from the data. A chi-square fit of the resulting Monte Carlo simulation to the shape of the Q(2) distribution for the quasielastic-enriched sample is carried out with the axial-vector mass M-A of the dipole axial-vector form factor of the neutron as a free parameter. The effective M-A which best describes the data is 1.23(-0.09)(+0.13)(fit)(-0.15)(+0.12)(syst) GeV.
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