• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.032002
• Corpus ID: 32454065

Measurement of the single pi(0) production rate in neutral current neutrino interactions on water

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  title={Measurement of the single pi(0) production rate in neutral current neutrino interactions on water},
  author={T. Abe and Jennifer Amey and Costas Andreopoulos and M. G. Antonova and Shigeki Aoki and Akitaka Ariga and Y. Ashida and Shamil Assylbekov and Dario Autiero and Sei Ban and Mauricio Barbi and Gareth J. Barker and Giles David Barr and Christopher Barry and P. Bartet-Friburg and Marcela Batkiewicz and Vincenzo Berardi and Sophie Berkman and Sampa Bhadra and Sergio Bienstock and Alain Blondel and Sara Bolognesi and Stefania Bordoni and S. B. Boyd and D. Brailsford and Alessandro Bravar and Christopher Bronner and M. Buizza Avanzini and Richard G. Calland and Thomas B. Campbell and S. Cao and Susan Cartwright and R. Castillo and M. G. Catanesi and Anselmo Cervera and Andrew Chappell and Caterina Checchia and Daniel Cherdack and Naruhiro Chikuma and Georgios Christodoulou and Alex Clifton and J. P. Coleman and G. Collazuol and David Coplowe and Linda Cremonesi and A. Cudd and Anna Maria Dabrowska and Gianfranca de Rosa and T. Dealtry and P. F. Denner and Steve Dennis and Chris Densham and Debra Dewhurst and F. di Lodovico and Silvestro di Luise and Stephen Dolan and O. Drapier and Kirsty Duffy and Jacques Dumarchez and Matthew Dunkman and P. Dunne and Michał Dziewiecki and Sandrine Emery-Schrenk and Antonio Ereditato and Tom Feusels and Alexander John Finch and Giovanni Fiorentini and Megan Friend and Yoshiaki Fujii and D. Fukuda and Yoshiyuki Fukuda and A. P. Furmanski and Vyacheslav Galymov and A. Garcia and S. G. Giffin and Claudio Giganti and Karin Gilje and F. Gizzarelli and Tomasz Golan and Michel Gonin and Nick Grant and David Hadley and Le{\"i}la Haegel and Jennifer Haigh and Pip Hamilton and D. Hansen and Jun Harada and Takanori Hara and Mark Patrick Hartz and Takehisa Hasegawa and Nicholas C. Hastings and Tatsuya Hayashino and Yoshinari Hayato and Richard Lloyd Helmer and M. Hierholzer and A. Hillairet and Alexander Himmel and Takahiro Hiraki and A. Hiramoto and Seiko Hirota and Matthew E. Hogan and Jacek Holeczek and Fuminao Hosomi and K. Huang and Atsuko Kondo Ichikawa and Keiko Ieki and Motoyasu Ikeda and James Imber and Jonathan Insler and R. A. Intonti and T. J. Irvine and Taku Ishida and Takehiko Ishii and Eito Iwai and K. Iwamoto and Alexander Izmaylov and Anu Jacob and Blair Jamieson and Miao Jiang and S. Johnson and Jay Hyun Jo and Patrik Jonsson and Chang Kee Jung and M. Kabirnezhad and Asher Kaboth and Takaaki Kajita and H. Kakuno and Jun Kameda and Douglas L. Karlen and I. I. Karpikov and Teppei Katori and Edward Kearns and Marat Khabibullin and Alexey N. Khotjantsev and Danuta Kiełczewska and Tatsuya Kikawa and H. I. Kim and J. Y. Kim and S. King and John B. Kisiel and A. Knight and A. Knox and T. Kobayashi and Lukas Koch and Taichiro Koga and Patrick P. Koller and Akira Konaka and K. Kondo and Anatoly Kopylov and Laura Lee Kormos and Alexander Korzenev and Yusuke Koshio and Katarzyna Kowalik and William R. Kropp and Y. Kudenko and Robert Kurjata and Thomas Kutter and Justyna Lagoda and Iain Lamont and Mathieu Lamoureux and Edward Larkin and P Lasorak and Marco Laveder and M. Lawe and Manuel Lazos and M. Licciardi and Thomas Lindner and Z. Liptak and R. Phillip Litchfield and X. L. Li and A. Longhin and J. P. Lopez and T. Lou and Lucio Ludovici and X. Lu and Lorenzo Magaletti and K. Mahn and Magdalena Malek and Steven L. Manly and Luc Maret and Alysia Marino and Jacques Marteau and J. F. Martin and P. Martins and S. Martynenko and Tomoyuki Maruyama and Victor Anatolievich Matveev and K. Mavrokoridis and W. Y. Ma and Eddy Mazzucato and M. McCarthy and Neil McCauley and K. S. McFarland and C. Mcgrew and A. V. Mefodiev and C. J. Metelko and Mauro Mezzetto and P. Mijakowski and A. Minamino and O. V. Mineev and Shun'ichi Mine and Andrew D Missert and Makoto Miura and S. Moriyama and John Morrison and Th. A. Mueller and Sebastien Murphy and Jordan Myslik and Takeshi Nakadaira and M. Nakahata and Katsuhiro Nakamura and Katsuhiro Nakamura and K. D. Nakamura and Yuta Nakanishi and Shoei Nakayama and Tsuyoshi Nakaya and Kazuo Nakayoshi and Corina Nantais and Christine Nielsen and M. Nirkko and Koichiro Nishikawa and Yuri Nishimura and Pau Novella and Jaroslaw A. Nowak and Helen O'Keeffe and R M Ohta and Ko Okumura and Toru Okusawa and W. Oryszczak and Sean M. Oser and Tat'yana Ovsyannikova and R. A. Owen and Yuichi Oyama and Vittorio Palladino and Jos{\'e} Luis Valverde Palomino and Vittorio Paolone and Nikhul Patel and Pradeep Paudyal and M. Pavin and D. J. Payne and Jonathan Perkin and Yevgeniy Petrov and L. Pickard and Luke Pickering and E. S. Pinzon Guerra and Ciro Pistillo and B. Popov and Magdalena Posiadała-Zezula and J-M. Poutissou and R. Poutissou and Adrian Pritchard and Paweł Przewłocki and Benjamin Quilain and Tobias Radermacher and Emilio Radicioni and Peter Ratoff and Melody Ravonel and Mark Alastair Rayner and Asmita Redij and Erez Reinherz-Aronis and C. Riccio and Paul Rojas and Ewa Rondio and Biagio Rossi and Stefan Roth and Andr'e Rubbia and Alan Cosimo Ruggeri and A. Rychter and Riccardo Sacco and Ken Sakashita and Federico S'anchez and Fumitaka Sato and Enrico Scantamburlo and Kate Scholberg and Jackie Schwehr and M. Scott and Yoshihiro Seiya and T. Sekiguchi and Hiroyuki Sekiya and D. Sgalaberna and R. Shah and A. T. Shaikhiev and F. Shaker and David Shaw and Masato Shiozawa and T. Shirahige and S. Short and Michael Burghard Smy and Jan T. Sobczyk and Henry W. Sobel and Marc Sorel and Luke Southwell and P. Stamoulis and J. Steinmann and Trevor Stewart and Patrick Stowell and Yoshiyuki Suda and Sergey Suvorov and Atsuto Suzuki and K. Suzuki and S. Suzuki and Y. Suzuki and Roman Tacik and Masahiro Tada and S. Takahashi and Atsushi Takeda and Yuji Takeuchi and R. Tamura and H. Tanaka and H. A. Tanaka and Dennis Terhorst and Ryan Terri and Tarak Thakore and L. F. Thompson and S. Tobayama and W. H. Toki and Tomonobu Tomura and C. Touramanis and Toshifumi Tsukamoto and Martin Tzanov and Y. Uchida and A Vacheret and Mark Robert Vagins and Z. Vallari and Georges Vasseur and Crist{\'o}v{\~a}o Vilela and Tomislav Vladisavljevic and Tomasz Wachala and K. Wakamatsu and C. W. Walter and David Lee Wark and W. Warzycha and M. Wascko and Andreas Weber and R. A. Wendell and R. J. Wilkes and Michael J. Wilking and Callum Wilkinson and J. Richard Wilson and R. J. Wilson and C. Wret and Y. Yamada and K. Yamamoto and M. Yamamoto and C. Yanagisawa and Takatomi Yano and Stanley Yen and N. Yershov and M. Yokoyama and J. Yoo and K. Yoshida and T. Yuan and M. Yu and Agnieszka Zalewska and Joanna Zalipska and Laura Zambelli and Krzysztof Zaremba and Marek Ziembicki and Eric D. Zimmerman and Marco Zito and Jakub Żmuda},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2017},
  volume={97},
  pages={032002}
}

• T. Abe, J. Amey, +358 authors J. Żmuda
• Published 24 April 2017
• Physics
• Physical Review D

The single $\pi^0$ production rate in neutral current neutrino interactions on water in a neutrino beam with a peak neutrino energy of 0.6 GeV has been measured using the P{\O}D, one of the subdetectors of the T2K near detector. The production rate was measured for data taking periods when the P{\O}D contained water ($2.64\times{}10^{20}$ protons-on-target) and also periods without water ($3.49 \times 10^{20}$ protons-on-target). A measurement of the neutral current single $\pi^0$ production rate on water is made using appropriate subtraction of the production rate with water in from the rate with water out of the target region. The subtraction analysis yields 106 $\pm$ 41 (stat.) $\pm$ 69 (sys.) signal events, which is consistent with the prediction of 157 events from the nominal simulation. The measured to expected ratio is 0.68 $\pm$ 0.26 (stat.) $\pm$ 0.44 (sys.) $\pm$ 0.12 (flux). The nominal simulation uses a flux integrated cross section of $7.63\times{}10^{-39}$ cm${}^2$ per nucleon with an average neutrino interaction energy of 1.3 GeV.