Measurement of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent pi(0) production in the NOvA near detector

Acero, M.; Adamson, P.; Aliaga, L.; Alion, T.; Allakhverdian, V; Anfimov, N.; Antoshkin, A.; Arrieta-Diaz, E.; Aurisano, A.; Back, A.; Backhouse, C.; Baird, M.; Balashov, N.; Baldi, P.; Bambah, B.; Basher, S.; Bays, K.; Behera, B.; Bending, S.; Bernstein, R.; Bhatnagar, V; Bhuyan, B.; Bian, J.; Blair, J.; Booth, A.; Bolshakova, A.; Bour, P.; Bromberg, C.; Buchanan, N.; Butkevich, A.; Campbell, M.; Carroll, T.; Catano-Mur, E.; Childress, S.; Choudhary, B.; Chowdhury, B.; Coan, T.; Colo, M.; Corwin, L.; Cremonesi, L.; Cronin-Hennessy, D.; Davies, G.; Derwent, P.; Ding, P.; Djurcic, Z.; Doyle, D.; Dukes, E.; Dung, P.; Duyang, H.; Edayath, S.; Ehrlich, R.; Feldman, G.; Flanagan, W.; Frank, M.; Gallagher, H.; Gandrajula, R.; Gao, F.; Germani, S.; Giri, A.; Gomes, R.; Goodman, M.; Grichine, V; Groh, M.; Group, R.; Guo, B.; Habig, A.; Hakl, F.; Hartnell, J.; Hatcher, R.; Hatzikoutelis, A.; Heller, K.; Himmel, A.; Holin, A.; Howard, B.; Huang, J.; Hylen, J.; Jediny, F.; Johnson, C.; Judah, M.; Kakorin, I; Kalra, D.; Kaplan, D.; Keloth, R.; Klimov, O.; Koerner, L.; Kolupaeva, L.; Kotelnikov, S.; Kreymer, A.; Kullenberg, Ch; Kumar, A.; Kuruppu, C.; Kus, V; Lackey, T.; Lang, K.; Lin, S.; Lokajicek, M.; Lozier, J.; Luchuk, S.; Maan, K.; Magill, S.; Mann, W.; Marshak, M.; Matveev, V; Mendez, D.; Messier, M.; Meyer, H.; Miao, T.; Miller, W.; Mishra, S.; Mislivec, A.; Mohanta, R.; Moren, A.; Mualem, L.; Muether, M.; Mulder, K.; Mufson, S.; Murphy, R.; Musser, J.; Naples, D.; Nayak, N.; Nelson, J.; Nichol, R.; Niner, E.; Norman, A.; Nosek, T.; Oksuzian, Y.; Olshevskiy, A.; Olson, T.; Paley, J.; Patterson, R.; Pawloski, G.; Pershey, D.; Petrova, O.; Petti, R.; Plunkett, R.; Potukuchi, B.; Principato, C.; Psihas, F.; Raj, V; Radovic, A.; Rameika, R.; Rebel, B.; Rojas, P.; Ryabov, V; Sachdev, K.; Samoylov, O.; Sanchez, M.; Seong, I.; Shanahan, P.; Sheshukov, A.; Singh, P.; Singh, V; Smith, E.; Smolik, J.; Snopok, P.; Solomey, N.; Song, E.; Sousa, A.; Soustruznik, K.; Strait, M.; Suter, L.; Talaga, R.; Tas, P.; Thayyullathil, R.; Thomas, J.; Tiras, EMRAH; Torbunov, D.; Tripathi, J.; Tsaris, A.; Torun, Y.; Urheim, J.; Vahle, P.; Vasel, J.; Vinton, L.; Vokac, P.; Vrba, T.; Wang, B.; Warburton, T.; Wetstein, M.; While, M.; Whittington, D.; Wojcicki, S.; Wolcott, J.; Yadav, N.; Dombara, A.; Yang, S.; Yonehara, K.; Yu, S.; Zalesak, J.; Zamorano, B.; Zwaska, R.

doi:10.1103/physrevd.102.012004

Measurement of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent pi(0) production in the NOvA near detector

Acero M. A., Adamson P., Aliaga L., Alion T., Allakhverdian V., Anfimov N., ...Daha Fazla

PHYSICAL REVIEW D, cilt.102, sa.1, 2020 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
Cilt numarası: 102 Sayı: 1
Basım Tarihi: 2020
Doi Numarası: 10.1103/physrevd.102.012004
Dergi Adı: PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, INSPEC, zbMATH
Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The cross section of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent pi(0) production on a carbon-dominated target is measured in the NOvA near detector. This measurement uses a narrow-band neutrino beam with an average neutrino energy of 2.7 GeV, which is of interest to ongoing and future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The measured, flux-averaged cross section is sigma = 13.8 +/- 0.9(stat) +/- 2.3(syst) x 10(-40) cm(2)/nucleus, consistent with model prediction. This result is the most precise measurement of neutral-current coherent pi(0) production in the few-GeV neutrino energy region.