K2K · 2005

Measurement of single pi0 production in neutral current neutrino interactions with water by a 1.3-GeV wide band muon neutrino beam

Phys.Lett.B 619 255 · 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.05.044

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Measurements

Current	Flavor	Target	Topology	Type	Observables	Energy
NC	νμ	H2O	NC1π0	ratio	ratio of NC1π0 to CC total cross section	mean energy 1.3GeV

Abstract

Neutral current single pi0 production induced by neutrinos with a mean energy of 1.3 GeV is measured at a 1000 ton water Cherenkov detector as a near detector of the K2K long baseline neutrino experiment. The cross section for this process relative to the total charged current cross section is measured to be 0.064 +- 0.001 (stat.) +- 0.007 (sys.). The momentum distribution of produced pi0s is measured and is found to be in good agreement with an expectation from the present knowledge of the neutrino cross sections.

Citation

@article{K2K:2004qpv,
    author = "Nakayama, S. and others",
    collaboration = "K2K",
    title = "{Measurement of single pi0 production in neutral current neutrino interactions with water by a 1.3-GeV wide band muon neutrino beam}",
    eprint = "hep-ex/0408134",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2005.05.044",
    journal = "Phys. Lett. B",
    volume = "619",
    pages = "255--262",
    year = "2005"
}