Validation of muon energy scale fit with medium energy flux using the low-ν method on MINERνA experiment

Abstract

The research to understand the universe has been present since a long time ago. In recent time, the MINERνA collaboration has done a good measurement of the neutrino cross section in five nuclear targets, implementing the neutrino beam-line NuMI. For the medium energy configuration of the beam, the data events measured and simulation presented a discrepancy. The collaboration implemented the low-ν method to investigate the source of the disagreement and fixed that. In this work, a validation of the fit developed to remove the discrepancy between the data and simulation for the charged-current quasi-elastic sample of events in MINERνA is presented. This study validates that the mis-modeling is coming from the muon energy scale parameter in the MINOS detector.