Measurement of the double-differential muon-neutrino charged-current inclusive cross section in the NOvA near detector

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2023-03-27
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NOvA Collaboration
Meyer, Holger
Muether, Mathew
Roy, P.
Solomey, Nickolas
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NOvA Collaboration, Acero, M. A., Adamson, P., Aliaga, L., Anfimov, N., Antoshkin, A., . . . Zwaska, R. (2023). Measurement of the double-differential muon-neutrino charged-current inclusive cross section in the NOvA near detector. Physical Review D, 107(5), 052011. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.052011

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We report cross-section measurements of the final-state muon kinematics for charged-current interactions in the NOvA near detector using an accumulated 8.09×10 protons on target in the NuMI beam. We present the results as a double-differential cross section in the observed outgoing muon energy and angle, as well as single-differential cross sections in the derived neutrino energy, , and square of the four-momentum transfer, . We compare the results to inclusive cross-section predictions from various neutrino event generators via calculations using a covariance matrix that accounts for bin-to-bin correlations of systematic uncertainties. These comparisons show a clear discrepancy between the data and each of the tested predictions at forward muon angle and low , indicating a missing suppression of the cross section in current neutrino-nucleus scattering models.

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