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Measurement of electron neutrino quasielastic and quasielasticlike scattering on hydrocarbon at $\langle E_{\nu} \rangle$ = 3.6 GeV

The collaboration
Phys.Rev.Lett. 116 (2016) 081802, 2016

Abstract (data abstract)
Fermilab-NuMI. The first direct measurement of electron-neutrino quasielastic and quasielastic-like scattering on hydrocarbon in the few-GeV region of incident neutrino energy has been carried out using the MINERvA detector in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. The flux-integrated differential cross sections in electron production angle, electron energy and $Q^{2}$ are presented. The ratio of the quasielastic, flux-integrated differential cross section in $Q^{2}$ for $\nu_{e}$ with that of similarly-selected $\nu_{\mu}$-induced events from the same exposure is used to probe assumptions that underpin conventional treatments of charged-current $\nu_{e}$ interactions used by long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The data are found to be consistent with lepton universality and are well-described by the predictions of the neutrino event generator GENIE. Data points taken from ancillary files included with arXiv:1509.05729v9.

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Data from Figure 1

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The $\nu_{e}+\bar{\nu}_{e}$ flux as a function of neutrino energy from the beam simulation for the data used in this analysis....

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Data from Figure 3 (left)

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Flux-integrated differential $\nu_{e}$ CCQE-like cross section versus electron energy.

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Data from Figure 3 (left)

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Covariance matrix for flux-integrated differential $\nu_{e}$ CCQE-like cross section versus electron energy.

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Data from Figure 3 (right)

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Flux-integrated differential $\nu_{e}$ CCQE-like cross section versus electron angle.

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Data from Figure 3 (right)

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Covariance matrix for flux-integrated differential $\nu_{e}$ CCQE-like cross section versus electron angle.

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Data from Figure 4 (left)

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The flux-integrated differential $\nu_{e}$ CCQE-like cross section versus $Q^{2}_{\rm QE}$.

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Data from Figure 4 (left)

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Covariance matrix for the flux-integrated differential $\nu_{e}$ CCQE-like cross section versus $Q^{2}_{\rm QE}$.

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Data from Figure 4 (right)

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The ratio of the MINERvA $\nu_{e}$ CCQE differential cross section as a function of $Q^2_{\rm QE}$ to the analogous result...

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Data from Figure 4 (right)

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Covariance matrix for the ratio of the MINERvA $\nu_{e}$ CCQE differential cross section as a function of $Q^2_{\rm QE}$ to...