MINERvA · 2018

Antineutrino Charged-Current Reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer

Phys.Rev.Lett. 120 221805 · 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.221805

arXiv:1803.09377 Journal INSPIRE All papers

Measurements

Current	Flavor	Target	Topology	Type	Observables	Energy
CC	ν̄μ	CH	Inclusive	double-diff	double-differential cross section	Q < 0.8GeV/c, focus on multinucleon effects

Abstract

We report on multinucleon effects in low momentum transfer ( $< 0.8$ GeV/c) anti-neutrino interactions on plastic (CH) scintillator. These data are from the 2010-2011 antineutrino phase of the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab. The hadronic energy spectrum of this inclusive sample is well described when a screening effect at low energy transfer and a two-nucleon knockout process are added to a relativistic Fermi gas model of quasielastic, $\Delta$ resonance, and higher resonance processes. In this analysis, model elements introduced to describe previously published neutrino results have quantitatively similar benefits for this antineutrino sample. We present the results as a double-differential cross section to accelerate investigation of alternate models for antineutrino scattering off nuclei.

Citation

@article{MINERvA:2018nab,
    author = "Gran, R. and others",
    collaboration = "MINERvA",
    title = "{Antineutrino Charged-Current Reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer}",
    eprint = "1803.09377",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "hep-ex",
    reportNumber = "FERMILAB-PUB-18-083-ND",
    doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.221805",
    journal = "Phys. Rev. Lett.",
    volume = "120",
    number = "22",
    pages = "221805",
    year = "2018"
}