1. Measurement of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent π0 production in the NOvA near detector
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Acero, MA, Adamson, P, Aliaga, L, Alion, T, Allakhverdian, V, Anfimov, N, Antoshkin, A, Arrieta-Diaz, E, Aurisano, A, Back, A, Backhouse, C, Baird, M, Balashov, N, Baldi, P, Bambah, BA, Basher, S, Bays, K, Behera, B, Bending, S, Bernstein, R, Bhatnagar, V, Bhuyan, B, Bian, J, Blair, J, Booth, AC, Bolshakova, A, Bour, P, Bromberg, C, Buchanan, N, Butkevich, A, Campbell, M, Carroll, TJ, Catano-Mur, E, Childress, S, Choudhary, BC, Chowdhury, B, Coan, TE, Colo, M, Corwin, L, Cremonesi, L, Cronin-Hennessy, D, Davies, GS, Derwent, PF, Ding, P, Djurcic, Z, Doyle, D, Dukes, EC, Dung, P, Duyang, H, Edayath, S, Ehrlich, R, Feldman, GJ, Flanagan, W, Frank, MJ, Gallagher, HR, Gandrajula, R, Gao, F, Germani, S, Giri, A, Gomes, RA, Goodman, MC, Grichine, V, Groh, M, Group, R, Guo, B, Habig, A, Hakl, F, Hartnell, J, Hatcher, R, Hatzikoutelis, A, Heller, K, Himmel, A, Holin, A, Howard, B, Huang, J, Hylen, J, Jediny, F, Johnson, C, Judah, M, Kakorin, I, Kalra, D, Kaplan, DM, Keloth, R, Klimov, O, Koerner, LW, Kolupaeva, L, Kotelnikov, S, Kreymer, A, Kullenberg, Ch, Kumar, A, Kuruppu, CD, Kus, V, Lackey, T, Lang, K, Lin, S, Lokajicek, M, Lozier, J, Luchuk, S, Maan, K, and Magill, S
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Nuclear and Plasma Physics ,Particle and High Energy Physics ,Physical Sciences ,hep-ex ,Astronomical and Space Sciences ,Atomic ,Molecular ,Nuclear ,Particle and Plasma Physics ,Quantum Physics ,Nuclear & Particles Physics ,Mathematical physics ,Astronomical sciences ,Particle and high energy physics - Abstract
The cross section of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent π0 production on a carbon-dominated target is measured in the NOvA near detector. This measurement uses a narrow-band neutrino beam with an average neutrino energy of 2.7 GeV, which is of interest to ongoing and future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The measured, flux-averaged cross section is σ=13.8±0.9(stat)±2.3(syst)×10-40 cm2/nucleus, consistent with model prediction. This result is the most precise measurement of neutral-current coherent π0 production in the few-GeV neutrino energy region.
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- 2020