Measurement of Neutrino-Induced Neutral-Current Coherent $\pi^0$ Production in the NOvA Near Detector.
2019
The cross section of
neutrino-induced
neutral-currentcoherent $\pi^0$ production on a carbon-dominated target is measured in the NOvA near detector. This measurement uses a narrow-band
neutrinobeam with the average
neutrinoenergy of 2.7\,GeV, xwhich is of interest to the ongoing and future long-baseline
neutrino oscillationexperiments. The measured, flux-averaged cross section is $\sigma = 14.0\pm0.9$\,(stat.)$\pm2.1$\,(syst.)$\times 10^{-40}$ $\text{cm}^2/$nucleus, consistent with model prediction. This result is the most precise measurement of
neutral-currentcoherent $\pi^0$ production in the few-GeV
neutrinoenergy region.
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