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Neutrino energy reconstruction and the shape of the charged current quasielastic-like total cross section
I. Ruiz SimoM. J. Vicente VacasJuan NievesFederico Sanchezsubject
PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physics010308 nuclear & particles physicsSolar neutrinoMany-body theoryFísicaSolar neutrino problem01 natural sciencesNuclear physicsMiniBooNE0103 physical sciencesMeasurements of neutrino speedNeutrino010306 general physicsNeutrino oscillationCharged currentdescription
We show that because of the multinucleon mechanism effects, the algorithm used to reconstruct the neutrino energy is not adequate when dealing with quasielastic-like events, and a distortion of the total flux-unfolded cross-section shape is produced. This amounts to a redistribution of strength from high to low energies, which gives rise to a sizable excess (deficit) of low (high) energy neutrinos. This distortion of the shape leads to a good description of the MiniBooNE unfolded charged current quasielastic-like cross sections published by A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. [(MiniBooNE Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 81, 092005 (2010)]. However, these changes in the shape are artifacts of the unfolding process that ignores multinucleon mechanisms.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2012-06-20 |