Coherent Pion Production

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In this paper we present quantitative results for coherent pion production by neutrinos scattered off nuclei within the framework developed by Gounaris, Kartavtsev and Paschos.

• The method is based on PCAC and uses helicity cross sections for the scattering of weak gauge bosons on nuclei.
• The process relies on experimental data for elastic pion-nucleus scattering.
• A detailed analysis of the differential and integrated cross sections is presented for neutral and charged currents, with special emphasis on the regions of integrations.