Study of charged hadron multiplicities in charged-current neutrino–lead interactions in the OPERA detector

N. Agafonova; A. Aleksandrov; A. Anokhina; S. Aoki; A. Ariga; T. Ariga; A. Bertolin; I. Bodnarchuk; C. Bozza; R. Brugnera; A. Buonaura; S. Buontempo; M. Chernyavskiy; A. Chukanov; L. Consiglio; N. D’Ambrosio; G. De Lellis; M. De Serio; P. del Amo Sanchez; A. Di Crescenzo; D. Di Ferdinando; N. Di Marco; S. Dmitrievski; M. Dracos; D. Duchesneau; S. Dusini; T. Dzhatdoev; J. Ebert; A. Ereditato; R. A. Fini; F. Fornari; T. Fukuda; G. Galati; A. Garfagnini; V. Gentile; J. Goldberg; Y. Gornushkin; S. Gorbunov; G. Grella; A. M. Guler; C. Gustavino; C. Hagner; T. Hara; T. Hayakawa; A. Hollnagel; B. Hosseini; K. Ishiguro; K. Jakovcic; C. Jollet; C. Kamiscioglu; M. Kamiscioglu; S. H. Kim; N. Kitagawa; B. Klicek; K. Kodama; M. Komatsu; U. Kose; I. Kreslo; F. Laudisio; A. Lauria; A. Ljubicic; A. Longhin; P. Loverre; A. Malgin; M. Malenica; G. Mandrioli; T. Matsuo; V. Matveev; N. Mauri; E. Medinaceli; A. Meregaglia; S. Mikado; M. Miyanishi; F. Mizutani; P. Monacelli; M. C. Montesi; K. Morishima; M. T. Muciaccia; N. Naganawa; T. Naka; M. Nakamura; T. Nakano; K. Niwa; N. Okateva; S. Ogawa; K. Ozaki; A. Paoloni; L. Paparella; B. D. Park; L. Pasqualini; A. Pastore; L. Patrizii; H. Pessard; D. Podgrudkov; N. Polukhina; M. Pozzato; F. Pupilli; M. Roda; T. Roganova; H. Rokujo; G. Rosa; O. Ryazhskaya; O. Sato; A. Schembri; I. Shakirianova; T. Shchedrina; H. Shibuya; E. Shibayama; T. Shiraishi; S. Simone; C. Sirignano; G. Sirri; A. Sotnikov; M. Spinetti; L. Stanco; N. Starkov; S. M. Stellacci; M. Stipcevic; P. Strolin; S. Takahashi; M. Tenti; F. Terranova; V. Tioukov; S. Vasina; P. Vilain; E. Voevodina; L. Votano; J. L. Vuilleumier; G. Wilquet; B. Wonsak; C. S. Yoon

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5509-y

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Eur. Phys. J. C (2018) 78: 62
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5509-y

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Study of charged hadron multiplicities in charged-current neutrino–lead interactions in the OPERA detector

N. Agafonova¹, A. Aleksandrov², A. Anokhina³, S. Aoki⁴, A. Ariga⁵, T. Ariga⁵^,6, A. Bertolin⁷, I. Bodnarchuk⁸, C. Bozza⁹, R. Brugnera⁷^,10, A. Buonaura²^,11, S. Buontempo², M. Chernyavskiy¹², A. Chukanov⁸, L. Consiglio², N. D’Ambrosio¹³, G. De Lellis²^,11, M. De Serio¹⁴^,15, P. del Amo Sanchez¹⁶, A. Di Crescenzo²^,11, D. Di Ferdinando¹⁷, N. Di Marco¹³, S. Dmitrievski⁸, M. Dracos¹⁸, D. Duchesneau¹⁶, S. Dusini⁷, T. Dzhatdoev³, J. Ebert¹⁹, A. Ereditato⁵, R. A. Fini¹⁵, F. Fornari¹⁷^,20, T. Fukuda²¹, G. Galati²^,11, A. Garfagnini⁷^,10, V. Gentile³⁶, J. Goldberg²², Y. Gornushkin⁸, S. Gorbunov¹², G. Grella⁹, A. M. Guler²³^*, C. Gustavino²⁵, C. Hagner¹⁹, T. Hara⁴, T. Hayakawa²¹, A. Hollnagel¹⁹, B. Hosseini²^,11, K. Ishiguro²¹, K. Jakovcic²⁶, C. Jollet¹⁸, C. Kamiscioglu²³^,24^**, M. Kamiscioglu²³, S. H. Kim²⁷, N. Kitagawa²¹, B. Klicek²⁸, K. Kodama²⁹, M. Komatsu²¹, U. Kose⁷, I. Kreslo⁵, F. Laudisio⁷^,10, A. Lauria²^,11, A. Ljubicic²⁶, A. Longhin⁷, P. Loverre²⁵, A. Malgin¹, M. Malenica²⁶, G. Mandrioli¹⁷, T. Matsuo³⁰, V. Matveev¹, N. Mauri¹⁷^,20, E. Medinaceli⁷^,10, A. Meregaglia¹⁸, S. Mikado³¹, M. Miyanishi²¹, F. Mizutani⁴, P. Monacelli²⁵, M. C. Montesi²^,11, K. Morishima²¹, M. T. Muciaccia¹⁴^,15, N. Naganawa²¹, T. Naka²¹, M. Nakamura²¹, T. Nakano²¹, K. Niwa²¹, N. Okateva¹², S. Ogawa³⁰, K. Ozaki⁴, A. Paoloni³², L. Paparella¹⁴^,15, B. D. Park²⁷, L. Pasqualini¹⁷^,20, A. Pastore¹⁴^,15, L. Patrizii¹⁷, H. Pessard¹⁶, D. Podgrudkov³, N. Polukhina¹²^,33, M. Pozzato¹⁷^,20, F. Pupilli⁷, M. Roda⁷^,10, T. Roganova³, H. Rokujo²¹, G. Rosa²⁵, O. Ryazhskaya¹, O. Sato²¹, A. Schembri¹³, I. Shakirianova¹, T. Shchedrina¹², H. Shibuya³⁰, E. Shibayama⁴, T. Shiraishi²¹, S. Simone¹⁴^,15, C. Sirignano⁷^,10, G. Sirri¹⁷, A. Sotnikov⁸, M. Spinetti³², L. Stanco⁷, N. Starkov¹², S. M. Stellacci⁹, M. Stipcevic²⁸, P. Strolin²^,11, S. Takahashi⁴, M. Tenti¹⁷, F. Terranova³⁵, V. Tioukov², S. Vasina⁸, P. Vilain³⁴, E. Voevodina², L. Votano³², J. L. Vuilleumier⁵, G. Wilquet³⁴, B. Wonsak¹⁹ and C. S. Yoon²⁷

¹ INR - Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 117312, Moscow, Russia
² INFN Sezione di Napoli, 80125, Naples, Italy
³ SINP MSU - Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia
⁴ Kobe University, 657-8501, Kobe, Japan
⁵ Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP), Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
⁶ Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
⁷ INFN Sezione di Padova, 35131, Padua, Italy
⁸ JINR - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Russia
⁹ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Salerno and “Gruppo Collegato” INFN, 84084, Fisciano, Salerno, Italy
¹⁰ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università di Padova, 35131, Padua, Italy
¹¹ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università Federico II di Napoli, 80125, Naples, Italy
¹² LPI - Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Moscow, Russia
¹³ INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010, Assergi, L’Aquila, Italy
¹⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Bari, 70126, Bari, Italy
¹⁵ INFN Sezione di Bari, 70126, Bari, Italy
¹⁶ LAPP, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, 74941, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
¹⁷ INFN Sezione di Bologna, 40127, Bologna, Italy
¹⁸ IPHC, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS/IN2P3, 67037, Strasbourg, France
¹⁹ Hamburg University, 22761, Hamburg, Germany
²⁰ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università di Bologna, 40127, Bologna, Italy
²¹ Nagoya University, 464-8602, Nagoya, Japan
²² Department of Physics, Technion, 32000, Haifa, Israel
²³ METU - Middle East Technical University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey
²⁴ Ankara University, 06560, Ankara, Turkey
²⁵ INFN Sezione di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
²⁶ Rudjer Boskovic Institute, 10002, Zagreb, Croatia
²⁷ Gyeongsang National University, 900 Gazwa-dong, Jinju, 660-701, South Korea
²⁸ Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Sensing Devices, Ruder Bošković Institute, 10002, Zagreb, Croatia
²⁹ Aichi University of Education, 448-8542, Kariya, Aichi, Japan
³⁰ Toho University, 274-8510, Funabashi, Japan
³¹ Nihon University, 275-8576, Narashino, Chiba, Japan
³² INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’INFN, 00044, Frascati, Rome, Italy
³³ Moscow Engineering Physical Institute Moscow, Moscow, Russia
³⁴ IIHE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
³⁵ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy
³⁶ Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy

^* e-mail: ali.murat.guler@cern.ch
^** e-mail: Cagin.Gunes@ankara.edu.tr

Received: 23 June 2017
Accepted: 27 December 2017
Published online: 24 January 2018

Abstract

The OPERA experiment was designed to search for $\nu _{\mu } \rightarrow \nu _{\tau }$ oscillations in appearance mode through the direct observation of tau neutrinos in the CNGS neutrino beam. In this paper, we report a study of the multiplicity of charged particles produced in charged-current neutrino interactions in lead. We present charged hadron average multiplicities, their dispersion and investigate the KNO scaling in different kinematical regions. The results are presented in detail in the form of tables that can be used in the validation of Monte Carlo generators of neutrino–lead interactions.

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