Measurement of Coherent pi(+) Production in Low Energy Neutrino-Carbon Scattering



Abe, K, Andreopoulos, C ORCID: 0000-0003-2020-8215, Antonova, M, Aoki, S, Ariga, A, Assylbekov, S, Autiero, D, Ban, S, Barbi, M, Barker, GJ
et al (show 329 more authors) (2016) Measurement of Coherent pi(+) Production in Low Energy Neutrino-Carbon Scattering. Physical Review Letters, 117 (19). 192501-.

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Abstract

We report the first measurement of the flux-averaged cross section for charged current coherent π+ production on carbon for neutrino energies less than 1.5 GeV, and with a restriction on the final state phase space volume in the T2K near detector, ND280. Comparisons are made with predictions from the Rein-Sehgal coherent production model and the model by Alvarez-Ruso et al., the latter representing the first implementation of an instance of the new class of microscopic coherent models in a neutrino interaction Monte Carlo event generator. We observe a clear event excess above background, disagreeing with the null results reported by K2K and SciBooNE in a similar neutrino energy region. The measured flux-averaged cross sections are below those predicted by both the Rein-Sehgal and Alvarez-Ruso et al. models.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: T2K Collaboration
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 27 Oct 2016 14:35
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 07:27
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.192501
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3004078