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  • Measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at \(\langle E_{\nu} \rangle \) = 3.6 GeV
    Collaboration, MINERvA; Wolcott, J; Altinok, O; Bellantoni, L; Bercellie, A; Betancourt, M; Bodek, A; Bravar, A; Budd, H; Carneiro, M F; Chvojka, J; da Motta, H; Devan, J; Dytman, S A; Diaz, G A; Eberly, B; Felix, J; Fields, L; Fine, R; Galindo, R; Gallagher, H; Ghosh, A; Golan, T; Gran, R; Harris, D A; Higuera, A; Kiveni, M; Kleykamp, J; Kordosky, M; T Le; Maher, E; Manly, S; Mann, W A; Marshall, C M; Martinez Caicedo, D A; McFarland, K S; McGivern, C L; McGowan, A M; Messerly, B; Miller, J; Mislivec, A; Morfin, J G; Mousseau, J; Muhlbeier, T; Naples, D; Nelson, J K; Norrick, A; Osta, J; Paolone, V; Park, J; Patrick, C E; Perdue, G N; Rakotondravohitra, L; Ransome, R D; Ray, H; Ren, L; Rimal, D; Rodrigues, P A; Ruterbories, D; Schellman, H; Schmitz, D W; Solano Salinas, C J; Tagg, N; Tice, B G; Valencia, E; Walton, T; Wospakrik, M; Zavala, G; Zhang, D; Ziemer, B P

    arXiv.org, 11/2016
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    The first direct measurement of electron-neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region of incident neutrino energy has been carried out using the MINERvA detector in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. The flux-integrated differential cross sections in electron production angle, electron energy and \(Q^{2}\) are presented. The ratio of the quasielastic, flux-integrated differential cross section in \(Q^{2}\) for \(\nu_{e}\) with that of similarly-selected \(\nu_{\mu}\)-induced events from the same exposure is used to probe assumptions that underpin conventional treatments of charged-current \(\nu_{e}\) interactions used by long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The data are found to be consistent with lepton universality and are well-described by the predictions of the neutrino event generator GENIE.

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