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

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First double-differential measurement of kinematic imbalance in neutrino interactions with the MicroBooNE detector. / Collaboration, MicroBooNE; Blake, Andrew; Devitt, Alesha et al.
In: Physical review letters, Vol. 131, No. 10, 101802, 08.09.2023.

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Collaboration ME, Blake A, Devitt A, Nowak J, Thorpe C, Patel N et al. First double-differential measurement of kinematic imbalance in neutrino interactions with the MicroBooNE detector. Physical review letters. 2023 Sept 8;131(10):101802. Epub 2023 Sept 6. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.101802

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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. ",
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