Title
Measurement of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent π0 production in the NOvA near detector
Date Issued
01 July 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Acero M.A.
Adamson P.
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.A.
Basher S.
Bays K.
Behera B.
Bending S.
Bernstein R.
Bhatnagar V.
Bhuyan B.
Bian J.
Blair J.
Booth A.C.
Bolshakova A.
Bour P.
Bromberg C.
Buchanan N.
Butkevich A.
Campbell M.
Carroll T.J.
Catano-Mur E.
Childress S.
Choudhary B.C.
Chowdhury B.
Coan T.E.
Colo M.
Corwin L.
Cremonesi L.
Cronin-Hennessy D.
Davies G.S.
Derwent P.F.
Ding P.
Djurcic Z.
Doyle D.
Dukes E.C.
Dung P.
Duyang H.
Edayath S.
Ehrlich R.
Feldman G.J.
Flanagan W.
Frank M.J.
Gallagher H.R.
Gandrajula R.
Gao F.
Germani S.
Giri A.
Gomes R.A.
Goodman M.C.
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.M.
Keloth R.
Klimov O.
Koerner L.W.
Kolupaeva L.
Kotelnikov S.
Kreymer A.
Kullenberg C.
Kumar A.
Kuruppu C.D.
Kus V.
Lackey T.
Lang K.
Lin S.
Lokajicek M.
Lozier J.
Luchuk S.
Maan K.
Magill S.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
The cross section of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent π0 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 σ=13.8±0.9(stat)±2.3(syst)×10-40 cm2/nucleus, consistent with model prediction. This result is the most precise measurement of neutral-current coherent π0 production in the few-GeV neutrino energy region.
Volume
102
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85092231929
Source
Physical Review D
ISSN of the container
24700010
Sponsor(s)
This document was prepared by the NOvA Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP user facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Department of Science and Technology, India; the European Research Council; the MSMT CR, GA UK, Czech Republic; the RAS, RFBR, RMES, RSF, and BASIS Foundation, Russia; CNPq and FAPEG, Brazil; STFC and the Royal Society, United Kingdom; and the state and University of Minnesota. We are grateful for the contributions of the staffs of the University of Minnesota at the Ash River Laboratory and of Fermilab.
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