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Report number	arXiv:2310.15633
Title	Longitudinal kinematic imbalances in neutrino and antineutrino interactions for improved measurements of neutrino energy and the axial vector form factor
Related title	Longitudinal kinematic imbalances in (anti-)neutrino interactions for improved measurements of nuclear removal energies and the axial vector form factor
Author(s)	Baudis, Nathan (Zurich, ETH) ; Dolan, Stephen (CERN) ; Sgalaberna, Davide (Zurich, ETH) ; Bolognesi, Sara (IRFU, Saclay) ; Munteanu, Laura (CERN) ; Dieminger, Till (Zurich, ETH)
Publication	2024-08-01
Imprint	2023-10-24
Number of pages	10
In:	Phys. Rev. D 110 (2024) 032019
DOI	10.1103/PhysRevD.110.032019 (publication)
Subject category	hep-ex ; Particle Physics - Experiment ; hep-ph ; Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract	Current and future accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments require an improved understanding of nuclear effects in neutrino-nucleus interactions. One important systematic uncertainty is introduced by the collective impact of nuclear effects which bias the reconstruction of the neutrino energy, such as the nuclear removal energy. In this manuscript, we introduce a novel observable for accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments, the visible longitudinal momentum imbalance, reconstructed in charged current quasi-elastic interactions from the outgoing charged lepton and nucleon. We demonstrate it to be minimally dependent on the neutrino energy and sensitive to sources of bias in neutrino energy reconstruction. Furthermore, we show how the use of the longitudinal imbalance in antineutrino interactions in a target containing hydrogen allows for an improved, high-purity selection of the interactions on hydrogen. This approach offers the potential for precise measurements of the nuclear axial vector form factor as well as of the antineutrino flux.
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