NC Coherent pi0 Production Below 2 GeV
| dc.creator | Nguyen, V. T. | |
| dc.date | 2008-10-20 | |
| dc.date | 2008-10-20 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:11:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:11:49Z | |
| 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 useful to study coherent production using antineutrinos rather than neutrinos because the ratio of coherent to resonant scattering is enhanced in antineutrino running. The measurement of NC coherent $π^0$ production in the MiniBooNE antineutrino data will be discussed. | |
| dc.description | 3 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP08), Philadelphia, USA, July 2008 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3643 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3643 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/171985 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Experiment | |
| dc.title | NC Coherent pi0 Production Below 2 GeV | |
| dc.type | text |