ArgoNeuT · 2014

First Measurement of Neutrino and Antineutrino Coherent Charged Pion Production on Argon

Phys.Rev.Lett. 113 261801 · 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.261801

arXiv:1408.0598 Journal INSPIRE All papers

Measurements

Current	Flavor	Target	Topology	Type	Observables	Energy
CC	νμ, ν̄μ	Ar	CCcoh1π±	total	coherent pion production cross section	mean energies: numu=9.6GeV, numubar=3.6GeV

Abstract

We report on the first cross section measurements for charged current coherent pion production by neutrinos and antineutrinos on argon. These measurements are performed using the ArgoNeuT detector exposed to the NuMI beam at Fermilab. The cross sections are measured to be $2.6^{+1.2}_{-1.0}(stat)^{+0.3}_{-0.4}(syst) \times 10^{-38} \textrm{cm}^{2}/\textrm{Ar}$ for neutrinos at a mean energy of $9.6$ GeV and $5.5^{+2.6}_{-2.1}(stat)^{+0.6}_{-0.7}(syst) \times 10^{-39} \textrm{cm}^{2}/\textrm{Ar}$ for antineutrinos at a mean energy of $3.6$ GeV.

Citation

@article{ArgoNeuT:2014uwh,
    author = "Acciarri, R. and others",
    collaboration = "ArgoNeuT",
    title = "{First Measurement of Neutrino and Antineutrino Coherent Charged Pion Production on Argon}",
    eprint = "1408.0598",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "hep-ex",
    reportNumber = "FERMILAB-PUB-14-258-E",
    doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.261801",
    journal = "Phys. Rev. Lett.",
    volume = "113",
    number = "26",
    pages = "261801",
    year = "2014",
    note = "[Erratum: Phys.Rev.Lett. 114, 039901 (2015)]"
}