Measurement of νμ\nu_\mu and νˉμ\bar{\nu}_\mu induced neutral current single π0\pi^0 production cross sections on mineral oil at EνO(1GeV)E_\nu \sim {\cal O}(1 {\rm GeV})

Nov, 2009
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 81 (2010) 013005
  • Published: Jan 26, 2010
e-Print:
Report number:
  • FERMILAB-PUB-09-583-E
Experiments:

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Abstract: (arXiv)
MiniBooNE reports the first absolute cross sections for neutral current single \pi^0 production on CH_2 induced by neutrino and antineutrino interactions measured from the largest sets of NC \pi^0 events collected to date. The principal result consists of differential cross sections measured as functions of \pi^0 momentum and \pi^0 angle averaged over the neutrino flux at MiniBooNE. We find total cross sections of (4.76+/-0.05_{stat}+/-0.40_{sys})*10^{-40} cm^2/nucleon at a mean energy of =808 MeV and (1.48+/-0.05_{stat}+/-0.14_{sys})*10^{-40} cm^2/nucleon at a mean energy of =664 MeV for \nu_\mu and \bar\nu_\mu induced production, respectively. In addition, we have included measurements of the neutrino and antineutrino total cross sections for incoherent exclusive NC 1\pi^0 production corrected for the effects of final state interactions to compare to prior results.
Note:
  • 12 pages, 12 figures, submitted to PRD
  • OSG : MINIBOONE
  • neutrino/mu: flux
  • pi0: single production
  • channel cross section
  • neutral current
  • pi0: momentum spectrum
  • pi0: angular distribution
  • BooNE
  • differential cross section
  • incoherent interaction