학술논문
Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_{\nu} ~ 3.5 GeV
Document Type
Working Paper
Author
The MINERvA collaboration; Fields, L.; Chvojka, J.; Aliaga, L.; Altinok, O.; Baldin, B.; Baumbaugh, A.; Bodek, A.; Boehnlein, D.; Boyd, S.; Bradford, R.; Brooks, W. K.; Budd, H.; Butkevich, A.; Caicedo, D. A. Martinez; Castromonte, C. M.; Christy, M. E.; Chung, H.; Clark, M.; da Motta, H.; Damiani, D. S.; Danko, I.; Datta, M.; Day, M.; DeMaat, R.; Devan, J.; Draeger, E.; Dytman, S. A.; Díaz, G. A.; Eberly, B.; Edmondson, D. A.; Felix, J.; Fitzpatrick, T.; Fiorentini, G. A.; Gago, A. M.; Gallagher, H.; George, C. A.; Gielata, J. A.; Gingu, C.; Gobbi, B.; Gran, R.; Grossman, N.; Hanson, J.; Harris, D. A.; Heaton, J.; Higuera, A.; Howley, I. J.; Hurtado, K.; Jerkins, M.; Kafka, T.; Kaisen, J.; Kanter, M. O.; Keppel, C. E.; Kilmer, J.; Kordosky, M.; Krajeski, A. H.; Kulagin, S. A.; Le, T.; Lee, H.; Leister, A. G.; Locke, G.; Maggi, G.; Maher, E.; Manly, S.; Mann, W. A.; Marshall, C. M.; McFarland, K. S.; McGivern, C. L.; McGowan, A. M.; Mislivec, A.; Morfín, J. G.; Mousseau, J.; Naples, D.; Nelson, J. K.; Niculescu, G.; Niculescu, I.; Ochoa, N.; O'Connor, C. D.; Olsen, J.; Osmanov, B.; Osta, J.; Palomino, J. L.; Paolone, V.; Park, J.; Patrick, C. E.; Perdue, G. N.; Peña, C.; Rakotondravohitra, L.; Ransome, R. D.; Ray, H.; Ren, L.; Rodrigues, P. A.; Rude, C.; Sassin, K. E.; Schellman, H.; Schmitz, D. W.; Schneider, R. M.; Schulte, E. C.; Simon, C.; Snider, F. D.; Snyder, M. C.; Sobczyk, J. T.; Salinas, C. J. Solano; Tagg, N.; Tan, W.; Tice, B. G.; Tzanakos, G.; Velásquez, J. P.; Walding, J.; Walton, T.; Wolcott, J.; Wolthuis, B. A.; Woodward, N.; Zavala, G.; Zeng, H. B.; Zhang, D.; Zhu, L. Y.; Ziemer, B. P.
Source
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 022501 (2013)
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Abstract
We have isolated muon anti-neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic interactions occurring in the segmented scintillator tracking region of the MINERvA detector running in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. We measure the flux-averaged differential cross-section, d{\sigma}/dQ^2, and compare to several theoretical models of quasi-elastic scattering. Good agreement is obtained with a model where the nucleon axial mass, M_A, is set to 0.99 GeV/c^2 but the nucleon vector form factors are modified to account for the observed enhancement, relative to the free nucleon case, of the cross-section for the exchange of transversely polarized photons in electron-nucleus scattering. Our data at higher Q^2 favor this interpretation over an alternative in which the axial mass is increased.
Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures. Added correlation between neutrino and anti-neutrino results in ancillary text files (CSV)
Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures. Added correlation between neutrino and anti-neutrino results in ancillary text files (CSV)