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

@article{Hiraide2008SearchFC,
  title={Search for Charged Current Coherent Pion Production on Carbon in a Few-GeV Neutrino Beam},
  author={SciBooNE Collaboration K. Hiraide and et al.},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2008},
  volume={78},
  pages={112004}
}
The SciBooNE Collaboration has performed a search for charged current coherent pion production from muon neutrinos scattering on carbon, nu{sub {mu}}{sup 12}C- {yields} {mu}{sup 12}Cpi{sup +}, 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 x 10{sup -2} at mean neutrino energy 1.1 GeV and 1.36 x… 
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