Measurement of Inclusive Neutral Current Neutral Pion Production on Carbon in a Few-GeV Neutrino Beam

The SciBooNE collaboration Kurimoto, Y. ; Alcaraz-Aunion, J.L. ; Brice, S.J. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.D 81 (2010) 033004, 2010.
Inspire Record 835586 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.53757

The SciBooNE Collaboration reports inclusive neutral current neutral pion production by a muon neutrino beam on a polystyrene target (C8H8). We obtain (7.7 \pm 0.5(stat.) \pm 0.5 (sys.)) x 10^(-2) as the ratio of the neutral current neutral pion production to total charged current cross section; the mean energy of neutrinos producing detected neutral pions is 1.1 GeV. The result agrees with the Rein-Sehgal model implemented in our neutrino interaction simulation program with nuclear effects. The spectrum shape of the neutral pion momentum and angle agree with the model. We also measure the ratio of the neutral current coherent pion production to total charged current cross section to be (0.7 \pm 0.4) x 10^(-2).

2 data tables

Ratio of inclusive NC PI0 production to the total CC cross section.

Ratio of NC coherent PI0 production to the total CC cross section.


Search for Charged Current Coherent Pion Production on Carbon in a Few-GeV Neutrino Beam

The SciBooNE collaboration Hiraide, K. ; Alcaraz-Aunion, J.L. ; Brice, Stephen J. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.D 78 (2008) 112004, 2008.
Inspire Record 801424 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.42669

The SciBooNE Collaboration has performed a search for charged current coherent pion production from muon neutrinos scattering on carbon, $\nu_{\mu}$ $^{12}C \to \mu^{-12}C \pi^+$, with two distinct data samples. No evidence for coherent pion production is observed. We set 90% confidence level upper limits on the cross section ratio of charged current coherent pion production to the total charged current cross section at $ 0.67 \times 10^{-2}$ at mean neutrino energy 1.1 GeV and 1.36\times 10^{-2} at mean neutrino energy 2.2 GeV.

1 data table

Upper limits for coherent pion production.