NC Coherent pi0 Production in the MiniBooNE Antineutrino Data
| dc.creator | Nguyen, V. T. | |
| dc.date | 2008-06-13 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:44:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:44:40Z | |
| dc.description | The single largest background to future $\bar{ν_μ}\to \bar{ν_e}$ ($ν_μ\to ν_e$) oscillation searches is neutral current (NC) $π^{0}$ production. MiniBooNE, which began taking antineutrino data in January 2006, has the world's largest sample of reconstructed $π^{0}$'s produced by antineutrinos. These neutral pions are primarily produced through the $Δ$ resonance but can also be created through ``coherent production.'' The latter process is the coherent sum of glancing scatters of antineutrinos off a neutron or proton, in which the nucleus is kept intact but a $π^{0}$ is created. A signature of this process is a $π^{0}$ which is highly forward-going. It is advantageous to study coherent production using antineutrinos rather than neutrinos because the ratio of coherent to resonant scattering is enhanced in antineutrino running. The first measurement of NC coherent $π^{0}$ production in the MiniBooNE antineutrino data is discussed here. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of the 43rd Rencontres de Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, La Thuile, Italy, March 1-8, 2008 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2347 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2347 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/162959 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Experiment | |
| dc.title | NC Coherent pi0 Production in the MiniBooNE Antineutrino Data | |
| dc.type | text |