Antineutrino Charged-Current Reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer.
/ Authors
R. Gran, M. Betancourt, M. Elkins, P. Rodrigues, F. Akbar, L. Aliaga, D. A. Andrade, A. Bashyal, L. Bellantoni, A. Bercellie
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A. Bodek, A. Bravar, H. Budd, G. Vera, T. Cai, M. Carneiro, D. Coplowe, H. da Motta, S. Dytman, G. A. Dı́az, J. Félix, L. Fields, R. Fine, H. Gallagher, A. Ghosh, H. Haider, J. Han, D. Harris, S. Henry, D. Jena, J. Kleykamp, M. Kordosky, T. Le, J. Leistico, A. Lovlein, X.-G. Lu, E. Maher, S. Manly, W. Mann, C. Marshall, K. McFarland, A. McGowan, B. Messerly, J. Miller, A. Mislivec, J. Morfín, J. Mousseau, D. Naples, J. Nelson, C. Nguyen, A. Norrick, Nuruzzaman, A. Olivier, V. Paolone, C. Patrick, G. Perdue, M. A. Ramírez, R. Ransome, H. Ray, L. Ren, D. Rimal, D. Ruterbories, H. Schellman, C. J. S. Salinas, H. Su, M. Sultana, S. Falero, E. Valencia, J. Wolcott, M. Wospakrik, B. Yaeggy
/ Abstract
We report on multinucleon effects in low momentum transfer (<0.8 GeV/c) antineutrino 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 a low energy transfer and a two-nucleon knockout process are added to a relativistic Fermi gas model of quasielastic, Δ 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 the investigation of alternate models for antineutrino scattering off nuclei.
Journal: Physical review letters