Measurement of νμ and ν̄μ induced neutral current single π0 production cross sections on mineral oil at Eν∼O (1 GeV)

Authors

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares de la UNAM
C. E. Anderson, Yale University
A. O. Bazarko, Princeton University
S. J. Brice, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
B. C. Brown, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
L. Bugel, Columbia University
J. Cao, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
L. Coney, Columbia University
J. M. Conrad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
D. C. Cox, Indiana University Bloomington
A. Curioni, Yale University
Z. Djurcic, Columbia University
D. A. Finley, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
B. T. Fleming, Yale University
R. Ford, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
F. G. Garcia, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
G. T. Garvey, Los Alamos National Laboratory
J. Gonzales, Los Alamos National Laboratory
J. Grange, University of Florida
C. Green, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
J. A. Green, Indiana University Bloomington
T. L. Hart, University of Colorado Boulder
E. Hawker, University of Cincinnati
R. Imlay, Louisiana State University
R. A. Johnson, University of Cincinnati
G. Karagiorgi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
P. Kasper, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
T. Katori, Indiana University Bloomington
T. Kobilarcik, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
I. Kourbanis, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
S. Koutsoliotas, Bucknell University
E. M. Laird, Princeton University
S. K. Linden, Yale University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-26-2010

Abstract

MiniBooNE reports the first absolute cross sections for neutral current single π0 production on CH2 induced by neutrino and antineutrino interactions measured from the largest sets of NC π0 events collected to date. The principal result consists of differential cross sections measured as functions of π0 momentum and π0 angle averaged over the neutrino flux at MiniBooNE. We find total cross sections of (4.76±0.05stat±0.76sys) ×10-40cm2/nucleon at a mean energy of Eν =808MeV and (1.48±0.05stat±0.23sys)×10-40cm2/nucleon at a mean energy of Eν =664MeV for νμ and ν̄μ induced production, respectively. In addition, we have included measurements of the neutrino and antineutrino total cross sections for incoherent exclusive NC 1π0 production corrected for the effects of final state interactions to compare to prior results. © 2010 The American Physical Society.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Recommended Citation

Aguilar-Arevalo, A., Anderson, C., Bazarko, A., Brice, S., Brown, B., Bugel, L., Cao, J., Coney, L., Conrad, J., Cox, D., Curioni, A., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D., Fleming, B., Ford, R., Garcia, F., Garvey, G., Gonzales, J., Grange, J., Green, C., Green, J., Hart, T., Hawker, E., Imlay, R., Johnson, R., Karagiorgi, G., Kasper, P., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Kourbanis, I., Koutsoliotas, S., Laird, E., & Linden, S. (2010). Measurement of νμ and ν̄μ induced neutral current single π0 production cross sections on mineral oil at Eν∼O (1 GeV). Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 81 (1) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.013005