First measurement of ν μ charged-current π 0 production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector
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Ashkenazi, Adi
Carr, Rachel
Collin, Gabriel
Conrad, J.M.
Diaz, Alejandro
Hen, Or
Hourlier, Adrien C.
Moon, Joongho
Papadopoulou, Afroditi
Yates, Lauren Elizabeth
Date Issued
2019
Journal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society (APS)
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Final published version
Abstract
We report the first measurement of the flux-integrated cross section of νμ charged-current single π0 production on argon. This measurement is performed with the MicroBooNE detector, an 85 ton active mass liquid argon time projection chamber exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. This result on argon is compared to past measurements on lighter nuclei to investigate the scaling assumptions used in models of the production and transport of pions in neutrino-nucleus scattering. The techniques used are an important demonstration of the successful reconstruction and analysis of neutrino interactions producing electromagnetic final states using a liquid argon time projection chamber operating at the Earth's surface.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.99.091102
