Study of quasielastic scattering using charged-current ν_μ-iron interactions in the MINOS near detector

Creators: Adamson, P.; Mualem, L.; Newman, H. B.; Orchanian, M.; Patterson, R. B.; MINOS Collaboration

Abstract

Kinematic distributions from an inclusive sample of 1.41×10^6 charged-current ν_μ interactions on iron, obtained using the MINOS near detector exposed to a wide-band beam with peak flux at 3 GeV, are compared to a conventional treatment of neutrino scattering within a Fermi gas nucleus. Results are used to guide the selection of a subsample enriched in quasielastic ν_μFe interactions, containing an estimated 123,000 quasielastic events of incident energies 1

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© 2015 American Physical Society. Received 30 October 2014; published 8 January 2015. This work was supported by the U.S. DOE; the U.K. STFC; the U.S. NSF; the State and University of Minnesota; the University of Athens, Greece; and Brazil's FAPESP, CAPES, and CNPq. We thank the staff of Fermilab for their invaluable contributions to the research of this work.

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