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.

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Upper limits for coherent pion production.