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Measurement of the A dependence of the νμ charged-current quasielasticlike cross section as a function of muon and proton kinematics at ⟨Eν⟩∼6  GeV

J. Kleykamp1,*, S. Akhter2, Z. Ahmad Dar3,2, N. S. Alex1, V. Ansari2, M. V. Ascencio4,†, M. Sajjad Athar2, M. Betancourt5, J. L. Bonilla6 et al. (MINERvA Collaboration)

J. L. Bonilla6, A. Bravar7, G. Caceres8,‡, G. A. Díaz5,1, H. da Motta8, J. Felix6, L. Fields9, R. Fine1,§, A. M. Gago4, H. Gallagher10, P. K. Gaur2, R. Gran11, E. Granados6, D. A. Harris12,5, A. L. Hart13, A. Klustová14, M. Kordosky3, D. Last1,15, A. Lozano8,∥, X.-G. Lu16,17, S. Manly1, W. A. Mann10, C. Mauger15, K. S. McFarland1, M. Mehmood12, B. Messerly18,¶, O. Moreno3,6, J. G. Morfín5, J. K. Nelson3, C. Nguyen19, A. Olivier9,1, V. Paolone18, G. N. Perdue5,1, C. Pernas3, K.-J. Plows17, M. A. Ramírez15,6, R. D. Ransome20, N. Roy12, D. Ruterbories1, H. Schellman21, C. J. Solano Salinas22, D. S. Correia8, M. Sultana1, V. S. Syrotenko10, E. Valencia6,3, N. H. Vaughan21, A. V. Waldron13,14, B. Yaeggy23,**, and L. Zazueta3,†† (MINERvA Collaboration)

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh 202002, India
  • 3Department of Physics, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
  • 4Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Apartado 1761, Lima, Peru
  • 5Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
  • 6Campus León y Campus Guanajuato, Universidad de Guanajuato, Lascurain de Retana No. 5, Colonia Centro, Guanajuato 36000, Guanajuato, Mexico
  • 7University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
  • 8Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 22290-180, Brazil
  • 9Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
  • 10Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
  • 11Department of Physics, University of Minnesota–Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA
  • 12York University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
  • 13G O Jones Building, Queen Mary University of London, 327 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
  • 14The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW, United Kingdom
  • 15Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
  • 16Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
  • 17Oxford University, Department of Physics, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom
  • 18Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
  • 19University of Florida, Department of Physics, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
  • 20Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
  • 21Department of Physics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
  • 22Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, CP 15081, Lima, Peru
  • 23Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Avenida España 1680 Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile

  • *Now at Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi 38677, USA.
  • †Now at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
  • ‡Now at Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA.
  • §Now at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
  • ∥Now at Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
  • Now at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
  • **Now at Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
  • ††Now at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
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Phys. Rev. D 112, 052005 – Published 12 September, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/h9vz-x4xf

Abstract

The first simultaneous measurements of the νμ quasielasticlike cross section on C, CH, H2O, Fe, and Pb targets as a function of kinematic imbalance variables in the plane transverse to the incoming neutrino direction are presented. These variables combine the muon and proton information to provide a new way to disentangle the effects of the nucleus in quasielasticlike processes. The data were obtained using a wideband νμ beam with ⟨Eν⟩∼6  GeV. Cross-section ratios of the different target materials to CH are also shown. These measurements are used to explore the nature of the cross-section A scaling, as well as initial and final state interaction effects. Comparisons are made to predictions from a number of commonly used neutrino Monte Carlo event generators. The range of predictions of the different models tends to cover the data but the degree and consistency of the agreement suffers in regions, and on higher A targets, where the final state interactions are expected to be more pronounced.

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Phys. Rev. D 112, 052005– Published 12 September, 2025
  • Received 27 March 2025
  • Accepted 11 August 2025
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