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Measurement of $ν_{μ}$ -induced charged-current neutral pion production cross sections on mineral oil at $E_{ν} \in 0.5 - 2.0 GeV$

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo¹⁴, C. E. Anderson¹⁹, A. O. Bazarko¹⁶, S. J. Brice⁸, B. C. Brown⁸, L. Bugel¹³, J. Cao¹⁵, L. Coney⁶, J. M. Conrad¹³ et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

J. M. Conrad¹³, D. C. Cox¹⁰, A. Curioni¹⁹, R. Dharmapalan¹, Z. Djurcic², D. A. Finley⁸, B. T. Fleming¹⁹, R. Ford⁸, F. G. Garcia⁸, G. T. Garvey¹¹, J. Grange⁹, C. Green^8,11, J. A. Green^10,11, T. L. Hart⁵, E. Hawker^4,11, R. Imlay¹², R. A. Johnson⁴, G. Karagiorgi¹³, P. Kasper⁸, T. Katori^10,13, T. Kobilarcik⁸, I. Kourbanis⁸, S. Koutsoliotas³, E. M. Laird¹⁶, S. K. Linden¹⁹, J. M. Link¹⁸, Y. Liu¹⁵, Y. Liu¹, W. C. Louis¹¹, K. B. M. Mahn⁶, W. Marsh⁸, C. Mauger¹¹, V. T. McGary¹³, G. McGregor¹¹, W. Metcalf¹², P. D. Meyers¹⁶, F. Mills⁸, G. B. Mills¹¹, J. Monroe⁶, C. D. Moore⁸, J. Mousseau⁹, R. H. Nelson^5,*, P. Nienaber¹⁷, J. A. Nowak¹², B. Osmanov⁹, S. Ouedraogo¹², R. B. Patterson¹⁶, Z. Pavlovic¹¹, D. Perevalov^1,8, C. C. Polly⁸, E. Prebys⁸, J. L. Raaf⁴, H. Ray⁹, B. P. Roe¹⁵, A. D. Russell⁸, V. Sandberg¹¹, R. Schirato¹¹, D. Schmitz⁸, M. H. Shaevitz⁶, F. C. Shoemaker^16,†, D. Smith⁷, M. Soderberg¹⁹, M. Sorel^6,‡, P. Spentzouris⁸, J. Spitz¹⁹, I. Stancu¹, R. J. Stefanski⁸, M. Sung¹², H. A. Tanaka¹⁶, R. Tayloe¹⁰, M. Tzanov⁵, R. G. Van de Water¹¹, M. O. Wascko^12,§, D. H. White¹¹, M. J. Wilking⁵, H. J. Yang¹⁵, G. P. Zeller⁸, and E. D. Zimmerman⁵ (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

¹University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
²Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
³Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837, USA
⁴University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA
⁵University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
⁶Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
⁷Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA
⁸Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
⁹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
¹⁰Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
¹¹Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
¹²Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
¹³Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
¹⁴Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, D.F. 04510, México
¹⁵University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
¹⁶Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
¹⁷Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Winona, Minnesota 55987, USA
¹⁸Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
¹⁹Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA

^*Present address: California Institute of Technology; Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
^†Deceased
^‡Present address: IFIC, Universidad de Valencia and CSIC; 46071 Valencia, Spain
^§Present address: Imperial College; London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

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Phys. Rev. D 83, 052009 – Published 23 March, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.052009

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Using a custom 3-Čerenkov ring fitter, we report cross sections for $ν_{μ}$ -induced charged-current single $π^{0}$ production on mineral oil ( ${CH}_{2}$ ) from a sample of 5810 candidate events with 57% signal purity over an energy range of 0.5–2.0 GeV. This includes measurements of the absolute total cross section as a function of neutrino energy, and flux-averaged differential cross sections measured in terms of $Q^{2}$ , $μ^{-}$ kinematics, and $π^{0}$ kinematics. The sample yields a flux-averaged total cross section of $(9.2 \pm {0.3}_{stat} \pm {1.5}_{syst}) \times 10^{- 39} {cm}^{2} / {CH}_{2}$ at mean neutrino energy of 0.965 GeV.

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Measurement of $ν_{μ}$ -induced charged-current neutral pion production cross sections on mineral oil at $E_{ν} \in 0.5 - 2.0 GeV$