Measurement of neutral current coherent neutral pion production on   carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam

Y. Kurimoto; J. L. Alcaraz-Aunion; S. J. Brice; L. Bugel; J.; Catala-Perez; G. Cheng; J. M. Conrad; Z. Djurcic; U. Dore; D. A. Finley; A.; J. Franke; C. Giganti; J. J. Gomez-Cadenas; P. Guzowski; A. Hanson; Y.; Hayato; K. Hiraide; G. Jover-Manas; G. Karagiorgi; T. Katori; Y. K.; Kobayashi; T. Kobilarcik; H. Kubo; W. C. Louis; P. F. Loverre; L. Ludovici,; K. B. M. Mahn; C. Mariani; S. Masuike; K. Matsuoka; V. T. McGary; W. Metcalf,; G. B. Mills; G. Mitsuka; Y. Miyachi; S. Mizugashira; C. D. Moore; Y.; Nakajima; T. Nakaya; R. Napora; P. Nienaber; D. Orme; M. Otani; A. D.; Russell; F. Sanchez; M. H. Shaevitz; T.-A. Shibata; M. Sorel; R. J.; Stefanski; H. Takei; H.-K. Tanaka; M. Tanaka; R. Tayloe; I. J. Taylor; R. J.; Tesarek; Y. Uchida; R. Van de Water; J. J. Walding; M. O. Wascko; H. B.; White; M. J. Wilking; M. Yokoyama; G. P. Zeller; and E. D. Zimmerman

arXiv:1005.0059·hep-ex·November 20, 2014

Measurement of neutral current coherent neutral pion production on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam

Y. Kurimoto, J. L. Alcaraz-Aunion, S. J. Brice, L. Bugel, J., Catala-Perez, G. Cheng, J. M. Conrad, Z. Djurcic, U. Dore, D. A. Finley, A., J. Franke, C. Giganti, J. J. Gomez-Cadenas, P. Guzowski, A. Hanson, Y., Hayato, K. Hiraide, G. Jover-Manas, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, Y. K.

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TL;DR

This paper reports a measurement of neutral current coherent neutral pion production on carbon using a neutrino beam at around 0.8 GeV, improving separation techniques and providing cross section ratios.

Contribution

It introduces an improved method for distinguishing coherent from inclusive neutral pion production and provides new cross section ratio measurements for neutrino interactions.

Findings

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Measured the ratio of neutral current coherent neutral pion production to total charged current cross sections.

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Calculated the ratio of charged current coherent pion to neutral current coherent pion production.

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Enhanced separation of coherent and resonant neutral pion production using recoil proton detection.

Abstract

The SciBooNE Collaboration reports a measurement of neutral current coherent neutral pion production on carbon by a muon neutrino beam with average energy 0.8 GeV. The separation of coherent from inclusive neutral pion production has been improved by detecting recoil protons from resonant neutral pion production. We measure the ratio of the neutral current coherent neutral pion production to total charged current cross sections to be (1.16 +/- 0.24) x 10-2. The ratio of charged current coherent pion to neutral current coherent pion production is calculated to be 0.14+0.30 -0.28, using our published charged current coherent pion measurement.

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