Measurement of inclusive neutral current pi[superscript 0] production on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam
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Bugel, Leonard G.; Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios; McGary, Van Thanh; Conrad, Janet Marie; Tanaka, H.
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Measurement of inclusive neutral current π0 production on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam
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The SciBooNE Collaboration reports inclusive neutral current neutral pion production by a muon neutrino beam on a polystyrene target (C[subscript 8]H[subscript 8]). We obtain (7.7±0.5(stat)±0.5(sys))×10[superscript -2] as the ratio of the neutral current neutral pion production to total charged current cross section; the mean energy of neutrinos producing detected neutral pions is 1.1 GeV. The result agrees with the Rein-Sehgal model implemented in our neutrino interaction simulation program with nuclear effects. The spectrum shape of the pi0 momentum and angle agree with the model. We also measure the ratio of the neutral current coherent pion production to total charged current cross section to be (0.7±0.4)×10[superscript -2].
Date issued
2010-02Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
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The SciBooNE Collaboration et al. “Measurement of inclusive neutral current pi[superscript 0] production on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam.” Physical Review D 81.3 (2010): 033004. © 2010 The American Physical Society.
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1550-7998
1550-2368