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Improved constraint on the MINERvA medium energy neutrino flux using $\bar{\nu}e^{-} \!\rightarrow \bar{\nu}e^{-}$ data

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2023-01-25 v1

Abstract

Processes with precisely known cross sections, like neutrino electron elastic scattering (νe ⁣νe\nu e^{-} \!\rightarrow \nu e^{-}) and inverse muon decay (νμe ⁣μνe\nu_\mu e^{-} \!\rightarrow \mu^{-} \nu_e) have been used by MINERvA to constrain the uncertainty on the NuMI neutrino beam flux. This work presents a new measurement of neutrino elastic scattering with electrons using the medium energy \numubar enhanced NuMI beam. A sample of 578 events after background subtraction is used in combination with the previous measurement on the \numu beam and the inverse muon decay measurement to reduce the uncertainty on the \numu flux in the \numu-enhanced beam from 7.6\% to 3.3\% and the \numubar flux in the \numubar-enhanced beam from 7.8\% to 4.7\%.

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@article{arxiv.2209.05540,
  title  = {Improved constraint on the MINERvA medium energy neutrino flux using $\bar{\nu}e^{-} \!\rightarrow \bar{\nu}e^{-}$ data},
  author = {L. Zazueta and S. Akhter and Z. Ahmad Dar and F. Akbar and V. Ansari and M. V. Ascencio and M. Sajjad Athar and A. Bashyal and A. Bercellie and M. Betancourt and A. Bodek and J. L. Bonilla and A. Bravar and H. Budd and T. Cai and G. A. Díaz and H. da Motta and J. Felix and L. Fields and A. Filkins and R. Fine and A. M. Gago and H. Gallagher and A. Ghosh and S. M. Gilligan and R. Gran and E. Granados and D. A. Harris and S. Henry and D. Jena and S. Jena and J. Kleykamp and A. Klustová and M. Kordosky and D. Last and A. Lozano and X. -G. Lu and E. Maher and S. Manly and W. A. Mann and K. S. McFarland and B. Messerly and J. Miller and O. Moreno and J. G. Morfín and J. K. Nelson and C. Nguyen and A. Olivier and V. Paolone and G. N. Perdue and K. -J. Plows and M. A. Ramírez and D. Ruterbories and H. Schellman and C. J. Solano Salinas and H. Su and M. Sultana and E. Valencia and N. H. Vaughan and A. V. Waldron and B. Yaeggy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.05540},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages, 16 figures