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9–12 Jul 2024
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
America/Chicago timezone

First Measurements of Differential Cross Sections In Kinematic Imbalance Variables With The MicroBooNE Detector

Not scheduled
2h
Atrium (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Atrium

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Speaker

Maitreyee Moudgalya (The University of Manchester)

Description

Making high-precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters requires an unprecedented understanding of neutrino-nucleus scattering. In this presentation, we present the first muon neutrino charged current double-differential cross sections in kinematic imbalance variables. These variables characterize the imbalance in the plane transverse to an incoming neutrino. We use events with a single muon above 100 MeV/c, a single final state proton above 300 MeV/c, and no recorded final state pions. Thus, these variables act as a direct probe of nuclear effects such as final state interactions, Fermi motion, and multi-nucleon processes. We also present a complementary ongoing analysis using electron neutrinos. This channel is of the utmost importance for the extraction of neutrino oscillation parameters by making high-precision measurements. Our measurements allow us to constrain systematic uncertainties associated with neutrino oscillation results performed by near-future experiments of the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program, as well as by future large-scale experiments like DUNE.

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