R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, 2011 1 Charged Current Neutrino Scattering in MINER A Ronald Ransome Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey On behalf.

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R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Charged Current Neutrino Scattering in MINER A Ronald Ransome Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey On behalf of the MINER A collaboration

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Outline What is MINER A? Detector Description Inclusive Scattering Quasi-elastic scattering Future

What is MINER A? R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Main INjector ExpeRiment  A MINER A is a high resolution neutrino cross section experiment in the NuMI beamline upstream of the MINOS near detector Goal is to measure exclusive and inclusive neutrino cross sections in the energy range of 1-20 GeV with greatly improved precision, and on several nuclei Has a fully active core of scintillator used as both a target and for tracking Targets of scintillator (C-H), He, C, water, Fe, and Pb

The  R  Collaboration  University of Athens, Athens, Greece  Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  UC Irvine, Irvine, CA  Fermi National Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL  University of Florida, Gainsville, FL  Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico  Hampton University, Hampton, VA  Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia  James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA  Mass. Coll. of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA  University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN  Northwestern University, Evanston, IL  Otterbein College, Westerville, OH  University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA  Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru  University of Rochester, Rochester, NY  Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ  Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile  University of Texas, Austin, TX  Tufts University, Medford, MA  Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru  College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 4 A collaboration of about 100 nuclear and particle physicists from 22 institutions R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, 2011

The NuMI Beamline MINER A MINOS pC        5 R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, 2011

6 The Detector Helium and Water targets coming later in modules of tracker, targets, and calorimetry

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Tracking Module Outer hadron calorimetry (steel + 4 layers scint.) Inner EM calorimetry (2mm Pb between modules) Tracking detectors 127 strips per plane, 2 planes per module

Tracking Detectors R. Ransome - PANIC July 26,

MINER  A Detector Passive Targets Liquid Helium Water 9 R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, 2011 Fe 2.5 cm/Pb 2.5 cm C 7.6 cm Fe 2.5 cm Pb 2.5cm Pb 0.8 cm Fe 1.3 cm/Pb 1.3 cm

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Muon Detection The MINOS near detector serves as a forward muon spectrometer. Energy threshold ~2 GeV Good angular acceptance up to scattering angles of about 10 degrees, with limit of about 20 degrees Muons stopped in MINER A can also be used, but no charge determination. Studies presented today use only events with muon in MINOS matched to muon in MINER A

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, “Frozen” detector 10/2009-3/ % of full detector Full detector 3/2010-present Data Taking since 10/2009

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Frozen DetectorFull Detector MINER  has been running with high efficiency and collected data in both the neutrino and antineutrino mode

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Sample events QE candidate DIS candidate Resonance candidate

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Inclusive ratio Expected ratios per kg for E > 2 GeV Pb/Fe = 1.04, Pb/CH = 1.10, Fe/CH = 1.05 One of our first goals is to measure the inclusive cross section ratios of various nuclei. Ratio depends both on the relative neutron to proton cross section, and possible nuclear modifications to the total cross section. Analysis done with neutrino data, on most downstream Pb/Fe target

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Event Selection (1)Require that the there is one muon reconstructed in MINOS and matched in MINER A (2)Require that the event vertex is in the target or in the first module downstream of the target US Cut: vertex must be DS of center of 1 st plane US of target DS Cut: vertex must be US of center of 3 rd plane DS of target (3)Require that the event vertex is inside the 85 cm fiducial apothem 85 cm

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, x-y tracking to plane is good, MC indicates that misidentification of target is a very small effect. Color indicates actual target Position of triangle indicates MC location of vertex Only about 0.1% identified in wrong target

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Background Subtraction z location of vertex is more difficult to determine With one track not possible to distinguish from downstream scintillator and target Multiple track vertex location uncertainty can be comparable to target thickness Background subtracting by finding events/plane downstream and extrapolating to nuclear target.

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Breakdown of events from “Fe” from MC Stacked histogram

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Statistical + flux error only Data-MC comparison for most downstream iron target. No background subtraction

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Making the Fe/Pb ratio also requires correcting for the acceptance difference for muons into MINOS, and subtracting the scintillator background Pb/Fe Tgt 5 Reference CH tgt Making double ratio (Fe/CH)/(Pb/CH) of each nucleus to same area scintillator cancels (largely) acceptance difference

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Lead reference Iron reference CH Comparison of Reference Targets Acceptance correction works well. Analysis of Pb/Fe still underway.

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Quasi-elastic cross section Quasi-elastic scattering is the two body neutrino-nucleon reaction with a muon in the final state. Cross section is a function of EM form factors (determined from electron scattering) and the axial form factor, generally parameterized as: g A determined from neutron beta decay M A fit to scattering data

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, From Aguilar-Arevalo et al PRD 81, (2010) Recent MiniBooNE data for QE scattering on carbon appears inconsistent with NOMAD data MiniBooNE is about 30% higher than expected, and is best fit with M A of 1.35, vs 1.03 for NOMAD. See talk by Arie Bodek on this topic later today

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Event Selection for  QE Require 1 positive muon in MINOS matched to MINERvA Recoil energy is nominally Q 2 /2m prot – require recoil energy to be consistent with this value.

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Anti-neutrino QE candidates

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Absolute (POT) normalization 0-3 GeV3-5 GeV 5-10 GeV 3-5 GeV somewhat lower than MC prediction. Cannot be explained by changing M A

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, The cause of the discrepancy between MC and data is still uncertain. Further refinement of event selection is underway. We will continue the QE analysis with data from the full detector runs, and additionally for neutrino data.

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, The Future Only a small fraction of data has been analyzed. Studies QE scattering with neutrinos and on the various nuclear targets are well underway. Other exclusive channels, including pion production, coherent pion production, and neutral current scattering are being studied.

R. Ransome - PANIC July 26, Summary MINER A began data taking with a partially complete detector in October 2009, and with the full detector in March 2010 Detector is working well and as expected Initial QE analysis for anti-neutrinos appears to show smaller cross sections than anticipated. Using M A extracted from MiniBooNE does not explain the discrepancy. Many more results coming soon!