MINERvA reports inclusive charged-current cross sections for muon neutrinos on hydrocarbon in the NuMI beamline. We measured the double-differential cross section in terms of the longitudinal and transverse muon momenta, as well as the single-differential cross sections in those variables. The data used in this analysis correspond to an exposure of 3.34×1020 protons on target with a peak neutrino energy of approximately 3.5 GeV. Measurements are compared to the GENIE, NuWro and GiBUU neutrino cross-section predictions, as well as a version of GENIE modified to produce better agreement with prior exclusive MINERvA measurements. None of the models or variants were able to successfully reproduce the data across the entire phase space, which includes areas dominated by each interaction channel.
@article{arxiv.2002.12496,
title = {Double-Differential Inclusive Charged-Current $\nu_\mu$ Cross Sections on Hydrocarbon in MINERvA at $\langle E_{\nu} \rangle \sim$ 3.5 GeV},
author = {A. Filkins and D. Ruterbories and Y. Liu and Z. Ahmad Dar and F. Akbar and O. Altinok and D. A. Andrade and M. V. Ascencio and A. Bashyal and A. Bercellie and M. Betancourt and A. Bodek and J. L. Bonilla and A. Bravar and H. Budd and G. Caceres and T. Cai and M. F. Carneiro and H. da Motta and S. A. Dytman and G. A. Díaz and J. Felix and L. Fields and R. Fine and A. M. Gago and H. Gallagher and A. Ghosh and R. Gran and D. A. Harris and S. Henry and S. Jena and D. Jena and J. Kleykamp and M. Kordosky and D. Last and T. Le and J. LeClerc and A. Lozano and X. -G. Lu and E. Maher and S. Manly and W. A. Mann and C. Mauger and K. S. McFarland and A. M. McGowan and B. Messerly and J. Miller and J. G. Morfín and J. K. Nelson and C. Nguyen and A. Norrick and A. Olivier and V. Paolone and G. N. Perdue and M. A. Ramírez and R. D. Ransome and H. Ray and H. Schellman and C. J. Solano Salinas and H. Su and M. Sultana and V. S. Syrotenko and E. Valencia and M. Wospakrik and C. Wret and B. Yaeggy and L. Zazueta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.12496},
year = {2020}
}