Measurement of nuclear effects in neutrino-argon interactions using generalized kinematic imbalance variables with the MicroBooNE detector
P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait, D. Andrade Aldana, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, D. Barrow, J. Barrow, V. Basque, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, M. B. Brunetti, L. Camilleri, Y. Cao, D. Caratelli, F. Cavanna, F. Cavanna, A. Chappell, Y. Chen, J. M. Conrad, M. Convery, L. Cooper-Troendle, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, Ryan Cross, M. Del Tutto, S. R. Dennis, P. Detje, A. Devitt, R. Diurba, Z. Djurcic, R. Dorrill, K. Duffy, S. Dytman, B. Eberly, P. Englezos, A. Ereditato, J. J. Evans, R. Fine, O. G. Finnerud, W. Foreman, B. T. Fleming, N. Foppiani, D. Franco, A. P. Furmanski, F. Gao, D. García-Gámez, S. Gardiner, G. Ge, S. Gollapinni, E. Gramellini, P. Green, H. Greenlee, L. Gu, W. Gu, R. Guenette, P. Guzowski, L. Hagaman, O. Hen, R. Hicks, C. Hilgenberg, G. A. Horton-Smith, Z. Imani, B. Irwin, M. S. Ismail, R. Itay, C. James, X. Ji, J. H. Jo, Rob Johnson, Y.-J. Jwa, D. Kalra, N. Kamp, G. Karagiorgi, W. Ketchum, M. Kirby, T. Kobilarcik, I. Kreslo, M. B. Leibovitch, I. Lepetic, J.-Y. Li, K. Li, Y. Li, K. Lin, B. R. Littlejohn, Haibo Liu, W. C. Louis, X. Luo, C. Mariani, D. Marsden
Abstract
Modeling of neutrino-nucleus scattering is essential to making sense of neutrino experimental data. In this paper, the MicroBooNE collaboration proposes and measures a set of generalized kinematic imbalance variables that are particularly well-suited for separating out and modeling nuclear effects. The usefulness of these variables is demonstrated by comparing data to event generators.