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Measurement of nuclear dependence in inclusive charged current neutrino scattering
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Measurement of nuclear dependence in inclusive charged current neutrino scattering
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Tice
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Brian George
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1987-
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Brian Tice
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Ransome
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Ronald D.
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Ronald D. Ransome
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chair
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Gilman
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Ronald
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Ronald Gilman
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internal member
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Kloet
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Willem M.
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Willem M. Kloet
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Pryor
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Carlton
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Carlton Pryor
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Morfin
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Jorge G.
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Jorge G. Morfin
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2014
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2014-01
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eng
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Neutrino experiments use heavy nuclei (C, Fe, Pb) to achieve necessary statistics. However, the use of heavy nuclei exposes these experiments to the nuclear dependence of neutrino-nucleus cross sections, which are poorly known and difficult to model. This dissertation presents an analysis of the nuclear dependence of inclusive charged-current neutrino scattering using events in carbon, iron, lead, and scintillator targets of the MINERvA detector. MINERvA (Main INjector ExpeRiment for ν-A) is a few-GeV neutrino nucleus scattering experiment at Fermilab. Acceptance of the muon spectrometer limits the analysis to 2 GeV < Eν < 20 GeV and 0◦ < θμ < 17◦ . The total cross section σ and differential cross section dσ/dxbj are measured, but the final result is ratios of these cross sections. Taking ratios dramatically reduces systematic uncertainties, most notably from the flux. This is the first precision measurement of nuclear effects using neutrino interactions in the non-perturbative, few-GeV regime. The modeling of nuclear-dependence is found to be adequate as a function of neutrino energy, but fails to describe the xbj -dependence. The data show an enhancement in the cross section at xbj > 0.7 which grows with the size of the nucleus and a suppression of the cross section at xbj < 0.1 which also grows with the size of the nucleus. Neither the enhancement nor the suppression are predicted by current neutrino interaction simulation codes.
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Physics and Astronomy
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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xv, 251 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Brian George Tice
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Neutrinos--Scattering
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Neutrinos
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3668B8S
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Tice
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Brian
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2013-12-18 19:58:58
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Brian Tice
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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