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

  • 1. Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, Russia
  • 2. Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy
  • 3. Lomonosov Moscow State Univ, Skobeltsyn Inst Nucl Phys, MSU, Moscow 119991, Russia
  • 4. Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
  • 5. JINR, Dubna 141980, Russia
  • 6. Univ Federico II Naples, Dipartimento Fis, I-80125 Naples, Italy
  • 7. Russian Acad Sci, Lebedev Phys Inst, Moscow 119991, Russia
  • 8. Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazionali Gran Sasso, I-67010 Laquila, Italy
  • 9. Univ Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, IN2P3, LAPP, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France

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The OPERA experiment was designed to search for nu(mu) -> 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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