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MINERvA · 2016

Measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielasticlike scattering on hydrocarbon at ⟨Eν⟩\langle E_{\nu} \rangle = 3.6 GeV

Phys.Rev.Lett. 116 81802 · 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.081802

arXiv:1509.05729JournalINSPIREAll papers

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CurrentFlavorTargetTopologyTypeObservablesEnergy
CCνeCHCC0πsingle-diffdifferential cross sections (e angle, energy, Q2)comparison with numu data

Abstract

The first direct measurement of electron-neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region of incident neutrino energy has been carried out using the MINERvA detector in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. The flux-integrated differential cross sections in electron production angle, electron energy and Q2Q^{2} are presented. The ratio of the quasielastic, flux-integrated differential cross section in Q2Q^{2} for νe\nu_{e} with that of similarly-selected νμ\nu_{\mu}-induced events from the same exposure is used to probe assumptions that underpin conventional treatments of charged-current νe\nu_{e} interactions used by long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The data are found to be consistent with lepton universality and are well-described by the predictions of the neutrino event generator GENIE.

Citation

@article{MINERvA:2015jih,
    author = "Wolcott, J. and others",
    collaboration = "MINERvA",
    title = "{Measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielasticlike scattering on hydrocarbon at $\langle E_{\nu} \rangle $ = 3.6 GeV}",
    eprint = "1509.05729",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "hep-ex",
    reportNumber = "FERMILAB-PUB-15-399-ND",
    doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.081802",
    journal = "Phys. Rev. Lett.",
    volume = "116",
    number = "8",
    pages = "081802",
    year = "2016"
}