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arxiv: 1509.05729 · v9 · pith:OQDIH2VOnew · submitted 2015-09-18 · ✦ hep-ex

Measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon at langle E_(ν) rangle = 3.6 GeV

MINERvA Collaboration: J. Wolcott , O. Altinok , L. Bellantoni , A. Bercellie , M. Betancourt , A. Bodek , A. Bravar , H. Budd
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M.F. Carneiro J. Chvojka H. da Motta J. Devan S.A. Dytman G.A. Diaz B. Eberly J. Felix L. Fields R. Fine R.Galindo H. Gallagher A. Ghosh T. Golan R. Gran D.A. Harris A. Higuera M. Kiveni J. Kleykamp M. Kordosky T. Le E. Maher S. Manly W.A. Mann C.M. Marshall D.A. Martinez Caicedo K.S. McFarland C.L. McGivern A.M. McGowan B. Messerly J. Miller A. Mislivec J.G. Morfin J. Mousseau T. Muhlbeier D. Naples J.K. Nelson A. Norrick J. Osta V. Paolone J. Park C.E. Patrick G.N. Perdue L. Rakotondravohitra R.D. Ransome H. Ray L. Ren D. Rimal P.A. Rodrigues D. Ruterbories H. Schellman D.W. Schmitz C.J. Solano Salinas N. Tagg B.G. Tice E. Valencia T. Walton M.Wospakrik G. Zavala D. Zhang B.P.Ziemer
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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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