A measurement of coherent neutral pion production in neutrino neutral current interactions in the NOMAD experiment

CT Kullenberg; SR Mishra; MB Seaton; JJ Kim; XC Tian; AM Scott; M Kirsanov; R Petti; S Alekhin; P Astier; D Autiero; A Baldisseri; M Baldo-Ceolin; M Banner; G Bassompierre; K Benslama; N Besson; I Bird; B Blumenfeld; F Bobisut; J Bouchez; S Boyd; A Bueno; S Bunyatov; L Camilleri; A Cardini; PW Cattaneo; V Cavasinni; A Cervera-Villanueva; R Challis; A Chukanov; G Collazuol; G Conforto; C Conta; M Contalbrigo; R Cousins; H Degaudenzi; A De Santo; T Del Prete; L Di Lella; E do Couto e Silva; J Dumarchez; M Ellis; GJ Feldman; R Ferrari; D Ferrère; V Flaminio; M Fraternali; JM Gaillard; E Gangler; A Geiser; D Geppert; D Gibin; S Gninenko; A Godley; JJ Gomez-Cadenas; J Gosset; C Gößling; M Gouanère; A Grant; G Graziani; A Guglielmi; C Hagner; J Hernando; P Hurst; N Hyett; E Iacopini; C Joseph; F Juget; N Kent; O Klimov; J Kokkonen; A Kovzelev; A Krasnoperov; S Kulagin; S Lacaprara; C Lachaud; B Lakić; A Lanza; L La Rotonda; M Laveder; A Letessier-Selvon; JM Levy; J Ling; L Linssen; A Ljubičić; J Long; A Lupi; V Lyubushkin; A Marchionni; F Martelli; X Méchain; JP Mendiburu; JP Meyer; M Mezzetto; GF Moorhead; D Naumov; P Nédélec; Y Nefedov; C Nguyen-Mau

Journal article

A measurement of coherent neutral pion production in neutrino neutral current interactions in the NOMAD experiment

CT Kullenberg, SR Mishra, MB Seaton, JJ Kim, XC Tian, AM Scott, M Kirsanov, R Petti, S Alekhin, P Astier, D Autiero, A Baldisseri, M Baldo-Ceolin, M Banner, G Bassompierre, K Benslama, N Besson, I Bird, B Blumenfeld, F Bobisut Show all

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics | ELSEVIER | Published : 2009

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.10.083

Abstract

We present a study of exclusive neutral pion production in neutrino-nucleus Neutral Current interactions using data from the NOMAD experiment at the CERN SPS. The data correspond to 1.44 × 106 muon-neutrino Charged Current interactions in the energy range 2.5 ≤ Eν ≤ 300 GeV. Neutrino events with only one visible π0 in the final state are expected to result from two Neutral Current processes: coherent π0 production, ν + A → ν + A + π0 and single π0 production in neutrino-nucleon scattering. The signature of coherent π0 production is an emergent π0 almost collinear with the incident neutrino while π0's produced in neutrino-nucleon deep inelastic scattering have larger transverse momenta. In th..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Martin Sevior Author

G. N. Taylor Author

Grants

Awarded by National Science Foundation

Funding Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the CERN SPS staff for the magnificent performance of the neutrino beam. The experiment was supported by the following agencies: ARC and DIISR of Australia: IN2P3 and CEA of France, BMBF of Germany, INFN of Italy, JINR and INR of Russia, FNSRS of Switzerland, DOE, NSF, Sloan, and Cottrell Foundations of USA, and VP Research Office of the University of South Carolina.