2009

Measurement of Inclusive Neutral Current Neutral Pion Production on Carbon in a Few-GeV Neutrino Beam

SciBooNE Collaboration, Kurimoto, Y., Alcaraz-Aunion, J. L. et al.

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The SciBooNE Collaboration reports inclusive neutral current neutral pion production by a muon neutrino beam on a polystyrene target (C8H8).

  • We obtain (7.7 \pm 0.5(stat.) \pm 0.5 (sys.)) x 10^(-2) as the ratio of the neutral current neutral pion production to total charged current cross section; the mean energy of neutrinos producing detected neutral pions is 1.1 GeV.
  • The result agrees with the Rein-Sehgal model implemented in our neutrino interaction simulation program with nuclear effects.
  • The spectrum shape of the neutral pion momentum and angle agree with the model.

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