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This work was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Award No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 which included the MINERvA construction project. Construction support was also granted by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for participating scientists was provided by NSF and DOE (USA), Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior fundacao do Ministerio da Educacao (CAPES) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) (Brazil), Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CoNaCyT) (Mexico), Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT), programs including Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico (FONDECYT) (Chile), by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Tecnologica (CONCYTE...
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Neutral-current production of Kþ by atmospheric neutrinos is a background in searches for the proton decay p → Kþν¯. Reactions such as νp → νKþΛ are indistinguishable from proton decays when the decay products of the Λ are below detection threshold. Events with Kþ are identified in MINERvA by reconstructing the timing signature of a Kþ decay at rest. A sample of 201 neutrino-induced neutral-current Kþ events is used to measure differential cross sections with respect to the Kþ kinetic energy, and the nonKþ hadronic visible energy. An excess of events at low hadronic visible energy is observed relative to the prediction of the NEUT event generator. Good agreement is observed with the cross section prediction of the GENIE generator. A search for photons from π0 decay, which would veto a neutral-current Kþ event in a proton decay search, is performed, and a 2σ deficit o...
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This work was supported by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 which included the MINERvA construction project. Construction support was also granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Award No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for participating scientists was provided by NSF and DOE (U.S.A.), by CAPES and CNPq (Brazil), by CoNaCyT (Mexico), by CONICYT (Chile), by CONCYTEC, DGI-PUCP and IDI/IGI-UNI (Peru), and by Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF). We thank the MINOS Collaboration for use of its near detector data. We acknowledge the dedicated work of the Fermilab staff responsible for the operation and maintenance of the beam line and detector, and we thank the Fermilab Computing Division for support of data processing.
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This document was prepared by members of the MINERvA Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. These resources included support for the MINERvA construction project, and support for construction also was granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-0619727 and by the University of Rochester. Support for scientists for this specific publication was granted by the United States National Science Foundation under Grants No. PHY-1306944 and No. PHY-1607381. We are grateful for the United States National Science Foundation's decade of direct support to the Soudan Underground Lab outreach program, including Grant No. PHY-1212342; this analysis originated as ...
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We report on multinucleon effects in low momentum transfer (< 0.8 GeV=c) antineutrino interactions on plastic (CH) scintillator. These data are from the 2010–2011 antineutrino phase of the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab. The hadronic energy spectrum of this inclusive sample is well described when a screening effect at a low energy transfer and a two-nucleon knockout process are added to a relativistic Fermi gas model of quasielastic, Δ resonance, and higher resonance processes. In this analysis, model elements introduced to describe previously published neutrino results have quantitatively similar benefits for this antineutrino sample. We present the results as a double-differential cross section to accelerate the investigation of alternate models for antineutrino scattering off nuclei.