First Double-Differential Measurement of Kinematic Imbalance in Neutrino Interactions with the MicroBooNE Detector

P Abratenko¹, O Alterkait¹, D Andrade Aldana², J Anthony³, L Arellano⁴, J Asaadi⁵, A Ashkenazi⁶, S Balasubramanian⁷, B Baller⁷, G Barr⁸, J Barrow^{9

6}, V Basque⁷, O Benevides Rodrigues^{2

10}, S Berkman⁷, A Bhanderi⁴, M Bhattacharya⁷, M Bishai¹¹, A Blake¹², B Bogart¹³, T Bolton¹⁴, J Y Book¹⁵, L Camilleri¹⁶, D Caratelli¹⁷, I Caro Terrazas¹⁸, F Cavanna⁷, G Cerati⁷, Y Chen¹⁹, E O Cohen⁶, J M Conrad⁹, M Convery¹⁹, L Cooper-Troendle²⁰, J I Crespo-Anadón²¹, M Del Tutto⁷, S R Dennis³, P Detje³, A Devitt¹², R Diurba²², Z Djurcic²³, R Dorrill², K Duffy⁸, S Dytman²⁴, B Eberly²⁵, A Ereditato²², J J Evans⁴, R Fine²⁶, O G Finnerud⁴, W Foreman², B T Fleming²⁰, N Foppiani¹⁵, D Franco²⁰, A P Furmanski²⁷, D Garcia-Gamez²⁸, S Gardiner⁷, G Ge¹⁶, S Gollapinni^{26

29}, O Goodwin⁴, E Gramellini⁷, P Green^{4

8}, H Greenlee⁷, W Gu¹¹, R Guenette⁴, P Guzowski⁴, L Hagaman²⁰, O Hen⁹, R Hicks²⁶, C Hilgenberg²⁷, G A Horton-Smith¹⁴, B Irwin²⁷, R Itay¹⁹, C James⁷, X Ji¹¹, L Jiang³⁰, J H Jo^{11

20}, R A Johnson³¹, Y-J Jwa¹⁶, D Kalra¹⁶, N Kamp⁹, G Karagiorgi¹⁶, W Ketchum⁷, M Kirby⁷, T Kobilarcik⁷, I Kreslo²², M B Leibovitch¹⁷, I Lepetic³², J-Y Li³³, K Li²⁰, Y Li¹¹, K Lin³², B R Littlejohn², W C Louis²⁶, X Luo¹⁷, C Mariani³⁰, D Marsden⁴, J Marshall³⁴, N Martinez¹⁴, D A Martinez Caicedo³⁵, K Mason¹, A Mastbaum³², N McConkey^{4

36}, V Meddage¹⁴, K Miller³⁷, J Mills¹, A Mogan¹⁸, T Mohayai⁷, M Mooney¹⁸, A F Moor³, C D Moore⁷, L Mora Lepin⁴, J Mousseau¹³, S Mulleriababu²², D Naples²⁴, A Navrer-Agasson⁴, N Nayak¹¹, M Nebot-Guinot³³, J Nowak¹², N Oza^{16

26}, O Palamara⁷, N Pallat²⁷, V Paolone²⁴, A Papadopoulou^{23

9}, V Papavassiliou³⁸, H B Parkinson³³, S F Pate³⁸, N Patel¹², Z Pavlovic⁷, E Piasetzky⁶, I D Ponce-Pinto²⁰, I Pophale¹², S Prince¹⁵, X Qian¹¹, J L Raaf⁷, V Radeka¹¹, A Rafique²³, M Reggiani-Guzzo⁴, L Ren³⁸, L Rochester¹⁹, J Rodriguez Rondon³⁵, M Rosenberg¹, M Ross-Lonergan²⁶, C Rudolf von Rohr²², G Scanavini²⁰, D W Schmitz³⁷, A Schukraft⁷, W Seligman¹⁶, M H Shaevitz¹⁶, R Sharankova⁷, J Shi³, E L Snider⁷, M Soderberg¹⁰, S Söldner-Rembold⁴, J Spitz¹³, M Stancari⁷, J St John⁷, T Strauss⁷, S Sword-Fehlberg³⁸, A M Szelc³³, W Tang²⁹, N Taniuchi³, K Terao¹⁹, C Thorpe¹², D Torbunov¹¹, D Totani¹⁷, M Toups⁷, Y-T Tsai¹⁹, J Tyler¹⁴, M A Uchida³, T Usher¹⁹, B Viren¹¹, M Weber²², H Wei³⁹, A J White²⁰, Z Williams⁵, S Wolbers⁷, T Wongjirad¹, M Wospakrik⁷, K Wresilo³, N Wright⁹, W Wu⁷, E Yandel¹⁷, T Yang⁷, L E Yates⁷, H W Yu¹¹, G P Zeller⁷, J Zennamo⁷, C Zhang¹¹; MicroBooNE Collaboration

Affiliations

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

PMID: 37739352
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.101802

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First Double-Differential Measurement of Kinematic Imbalance in Neutrino Interactions with the MicroBooNE Detector

P Abratenko et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2023.

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. 2023 Sep 8;131(10):101802.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.101802.

Authors

Affiliations

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

PMID: 37739352
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.101802

Abstract

We report the first measurement of flux-integrated double-differential quasielasticlike neutrino-argon cross sections, which have been made using the Booster Neutrino Beam and the MicroBooNE detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data are presented as a function of kinematic imbalance variables which are sensitive to nuclear ground-state distributions and hadronic reinteraction processes. We find that the measured cross sections in different phase-space regions are sensitive to different nuclear effects. Therefore, they enable the impact of specific nuclear effects on the neutrino-nucleus interaction to be isolated more completely than was possible using previous single-differential cross section measurements. Our results provide precision data to help test and improve neutrino-nucleus interaction models. They further support ongoing neutrino-oscillation studies by establishing phase-space regions where precise reaction modeling has already been achieved.

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First Double-Differential Measurement of Kinematic Imbalance in Neutrino Interactions with the MicroBooNE Detector

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