Abstract
We report a study of charged-current quasielastic events in the segmented scintillator inner tracker of the MINERvA experiment running in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. The events were selected by requiring a and low calorimetric recoil energy separated from the interaction vertex. We measure the flux-averaged differential cross section, , and study the low energy particle content of the final state. Deviations are found between the measured and the expectations of a model of independent nucleons in a relativistic Fermi gas. We also observe an excess of energy near the vertex consistent with multiple protons in the final state.
- Received 9 May 2013
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.022502
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