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Title: Single neutral pion production by charged-current $$\bar{\nu}_\mu$$ interactions on hydrocarbon at $$\langle E_\nu \rangle = $$3.6 GeV

Journal Article · · Physics Letters. B
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  1. State Univ. of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ (United States)
  2. Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
  3. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States); Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima (Peru)
  4. Tufts Univ., Medford, MA (United States)
  5. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
  6. Univ. of Geneva (Switzerland)
  7. Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Casilla (Chile)
  8. Inst. for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russia)
  9. Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA (United States)
  10. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States)
  11. Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  12. Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima (Peru)
  13. Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico)
  14. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  15. Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
  16. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  17. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States); Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico)
  18. Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima (Peru)
  19. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA (United States)
  20. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
  21. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  22. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  23. Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima (Peru)
  24. Otterbein Univ., Westerville, OH (United States)
  25. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
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We studied single neutral pion production via muon antineutrino charged-current interactions in plastic scintillator (CH) using the MINERvA detector exposed to the NuMI low-energy, wideband antineutrino beam at Fermilab. Measurement of this process constrains models of neutral pion production in nuclei, which is important because the neutral-current analog is a background for appearance oscillation experiments. Furthermore, the differential cross sections for π0 momentum and production angle, for events with a single observed π0 and no charged pions, are presented and compared to model predictions. These results comprise the first measurement of the π0 kinematics for this process.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes); National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq); Conacyt, Mexico City (Mexico); National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT); National System of Science and Technology and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC); Direction of Management of the Investigation (DGI). Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Peru; General Inst. of Investigation (IGI). National Univ. of Engineering; Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF); Ministry of Education and Science (Russia); Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow (Russian Federation)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-07CH11359; PHY-0619727
OSTI ID:
1213905
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1221276; OSTI ID: 1423585
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-15-075-ND; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1503.02107; TRN: US1601120
Journal Information:
Physics Letters. B, Vol. 749, Issue C; ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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