TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of neutral current single π0 production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector
AU - (MicroBooNE Collaboration)
AU - Abratenko, P.
AU - Anthony, J.
AU - Arellano, L.
AU - Asaadi, J.
AU - Ashkenazi, A.
AU - Balasubramanian, S.
AU - Baller, B.
AU - Barnes, C.
AU - Barr, G.
AU - Barrow, J.
AU - Basque, V.
AU - Bathe-Peters, L.
AU - Benevides Rodrigues, O.
AU - Berkman, S.
AU - Bhanderi, A.
AU - Bhat, A.
AU - Bhattacharya, M.
AU - Bishai, M.
AU - Blake, A.
AU - Bolton, T.
AU - Book, J. Y.
AU - Camilleri, L.
AU - Caratelli, D.
AU - Caro Terrazas, I.
AU - Cavanna, F.
AU - Cerati, G.
AU - Chen, Y.
AU - Cianci, D.
AU - Conrad, J. M.
AU - Convery, M.
AU - Cooper-Troendle, L.
AU - Crespo-Anadón, J. I.
AU - Del Tutto, M.
AU - Dennis, S. R.
AU - Detje, P.
AU - Devitt, A.
AU - Diurba, R.
AU - Dorrill, R.
AU - Duffy, K.
AU - Dytman, S.
AU - Eberly, B.
AU - Ereditato, A.
AU - Evans, J. J.
AU - Fine, R.
AU - Finnerud, O. G.
AU - Fiorentini Aguirre, G. A.
AU - Fitzpatrick, R. S.
AU - Fleming, B. T.
AU - Foppiani, N.
AU - Piasetzky, E.
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PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - We report the first measurement of π0 production in neutral current (NC) interactions on argon with average neutrino energy of ≲1 GeV. We use data from the MicroBooNE detector's 85 metric tons active volume liquid argon time projection chamber situated in Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beam and exposed to 5.89×1020 protons on target for this measurement. Measurements of NC π0 events are reported for two exclusive event topologies without charged pions. Those include a topology with two photons from the decay of the π0 and one proton and a topology with two photons and zero protons. Flux-averaged cross sections for each exclusive topology and for their semi-inclusive combination are extracted (efficiency correcting for two-plus proton final states), and the results are compared to predictions from the genie, neut, and nuwro neutrino event generators. We measure cross sections of 1.243±0.185(syst)±0.076(stat), 0.444±0.098±0.047, and 0.624±0.131±0.075 [10-38 cm2/Ar] for the semi-inclusive NCπ0, exclusive NCπ0+1p, and exclusive NCπ0+0p processes, respectively.
AB - We report the first measurement of π0 production in neutral current (NC) interactions on argon with average neutrino energy of ≲1 GeV. We use data from the MicroBooNE detector's 85 metric tons active volume liquid argon time projection chamber situated in Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beam and exposed to 5.89×1020 protons on target for this measurement. Measurements of NC π0 events are reported for two exclusive event topologies without charged pions. Those include a topology with two photons from the decay of the π0 and one proton and a topology with two photons and zero protons. Flux-averaged cross sections for each exclusive topology and for their semi-inclusive combination are extracted (efficiency correcting for two-plus proton final states), and the results are compared to predictions from the genie, neut, and nuwro neutrino event generators. We measure cross sections of 1.243±0.185(syst)±0.076(stat), 0.444±0.098±0.047, and 0.624±0.131±0.075 [10-38 cm2/Ar] for the semi-inclusive NCπ0, exclusive NCπ0+1p, and exclusive NCπ0+0p processes, respectively.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85147434481
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.012004
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.012004
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AN - SCOPUS:85147434481
SN - 2470-0010
VL - 107
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
IS - 1
M1 - 012004
ER -