Abstract

We measure a large set of observables in inclusive charged current muon neutrino scattering on argon with the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber operating at Fermilab. We evaluate three neutrino interaction models based on the widely used GENIE event generator using these observables. The measurement uses a data set consisting of neutrino interactions with a final state muon candidate fully contained within the MicroBooNE detector. These data were collected in 2016 with the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam, which has an average neutrino energy of \[800~\hbox {MeV}\], using an exposure corresponding to \[ 5.0\times 10^{19}\] protons-on-target. The analysis employs fully automatic event selection and charged particle track reconstruction and uses a data-driven technique to separate neutrino interactions from cosmic ray background events. We find that GENIE models consistently describe the shapes of a large number of kinematic distributions for fixed observed multiplicity.

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Title
Comparison of \[{\varvec{\nu }}_{\varvec{\mu }}-\] Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions
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Adams, C 1 ; R An 2 ; Anthony, J 3 ; Asaadi, J 4 ; Auger, M 5 ; Balasubramanian, S 6 ; Baller, B 7 ; Barnes, C 8 ; Barr, G 9 ; Bass, M 10 ; Bay, F 11 ; Bhat, A 12 ; Bhattacharya, K 13 ; Bishai, M 14 ; Blake, A 15 ; Bolton, T 16 ; Camilleri, L 17 ; Caratelli, D 17 ; R Castillo Fernandez 7 ; Cavanna, F 7 ; Cerati, G 7 ; Chen, H 14 ; Chen, Y 5 ; Church, E 13 ; Cianci, D 17 ; Cohen, E 18 ; Collin, G H 19 ; Conrad, J M 19 ; Convery, M 20 ; Cooper-Troendle, L 6 ; Crespo-Anadón, J I 17 ; M Del Tutto 9 ; Devitt, D 15 ; Diaz, A 19 ; Dytman, S 21 ; Eberly, B 20 ; Ereditato, A 5 ; L Escudero Sanchez 3 ; Esquivel, J 12 ; Evans, J J 22 ; Fadeeva, A A 17 ; Fleming, B T 6 ; Foreman, W 23 ; Furmanski, A P 22 ; Garcia-Gamez, D 22 ; Garvey, G T 24 ; Genty, V 17 ; Goeldi, D 5 ; Gollapinni, S 25 ; Gramellini, E 6 ; Greenlee, H 7 ; Grosso, R 26 ; Guenette, R 1 ; Guzowski, P 22 ; Hackenburg, A 6 ; Hamilton, P 12 ; Hen, O 19 ; Hewes, J 22 ; Hill, C 22 ; J Ho 23 ; Horton-Smith, G A 16 ; Hourlier, A 19 ; E-C, Huang 24 ; James, C 7 ; de Vries, J Jan 3 ; Jiang, L 21 ; Johnson, R A 26 ; Joshi, J 14 ; Jostlein, H 7 ; Y-J Jwa 17 ; Kaleko, D 17 ; Karagiorgi, G 17 ; Ketchum, W 7 ; Kirby, B 14 ; Kirby, M 7 ; Kobilarcik, T 7 ; Kreslo, I 5 ; Y Li 14 ; Lister, A 15 ; Littlejohn, B R 2 ; Lockwitz, S 7 ; Lorca, D 5 ; Louis, W C 24 ; Luethi, M 5 ; Lundberg, B 7 ; Luo, X 6 ; Marchionni, A 7 ; Marcocci, S 7 ; Mariani, C 27 ; Marshall, J 3 ; Martinez Caicedo, D A 2 ; Mastbaum, A 23 ; Meddage, V 16 ; Mettler, T 5 ; Miceli, T 28 ; Mills, G B 24 ; Mogan, A 25 ; Moon, J 19 ; Mooney, M 29 ; Moore, C D 7 ; Mousseau, J 8 ; Murphy, M 27 ; Murrells, R 22 ; Naples, D 21 ; Nienaber, P 30 ; Nowak, J 15 ; Palamara, O 7 ; Pandey, V 27 ; Paolone, V 21 ; Papadopoulou, A 19 ; Papavassiliou, V 28 ; Pate, S F 28 ; Pavlovic, Z 7 ; Piasetzky, E 18 ; Porzio, D 22 ; Pulliam, G 12 ; Qian, X 14 ; Raaf, J L 7 ; Rafique, A 16   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Rochester, L 20 ; Ross-Lonergan, M 17 ; von Rohr, C Rudolf 5 ; Russell, B 6 ; Schmitz, D W 23 ; Schukraft, A 7 ; Seligman, W 17 ; Shaevitz, M H 17 ; Sinclair, J 5 ; Smith, A 3 ; Snider, E L 7 ; Soderberg, M 12 ; Söldner-Rembold, S 22 ; Soleti, S R 31 ; Spentzouris, P 7 ; Spitz, J 8 ; J St John 32 ; Strauss, T 7 ; Sutton, K 17 ; Sword-Fehlberg, S 28 ; Szelc, A M 22 ; Tagg, N 33 ; Tang, W 25 ; Terao, K 20 ; Thomson, M 3 ; Toups, M 7 ; Y-T, Tsai 20 ; Tufanli, S 6 ; Usher, T 20 ; Van De Pontseele, W 31 ; R G Van de Water 24 ; Viren, B 14 ; Weber, M 5 ; Wei, H 14 ; Wickremasinghe, D A 21 ; Wierman, K 13 ; Williams, Z 4 ; Wolbers, S 7 ; Wongjirad, T 34 ; Woodruff, K 28 ; Yang, T 7 ; Yarbrough, G 25 ; Yates, L E 19 ; Zeller, G P 7 ; Zennamo, J 23 ; Zhang, C 14 

 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 
 Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, IL, USA 
 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 
 University of Texas, Arlington, TX, USA 
 Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland 
 Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 
 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL, USA 
 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 
 University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 
10  Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY, USA; University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 
11  TUBITAK Space Technologies Research Institute, Ankara, Turkey 
12  Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA 
13  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA, USA 
14  Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY, USA 
15  Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK 
16  Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, KS, USA 
17  Columbia University, New York, NY, USA 
18  Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 
19  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA 
20  SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA 
21  University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 
22  The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 
23  University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 
24  Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM, USA 
25  University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA 
26  University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA 
27  Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA 
28  New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, NM, USA 
29  Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY, USA; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA 
30  Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Winona, MN, USA 
31  Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 
32  University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL, USA 
33  Otterbein University, Westerville, OH, USA 
34  Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA 
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Publication year
2019
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Mar 2019
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14346044
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English
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