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First double-differential measurement of kinematic imbalance in neutrino interactions with the MicroBooNE detector

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Article number101802
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>8/09/2023
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical review letters
Issue number10
Volume131
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date6/09/23
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We report the first measurement of flux-integrated double-differential quasielastic-like 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.