Search for charged current coherent pion production on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam

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K. Hiraide,¹⁰ J. L. Alcaraz-Aunion,¹ S. J. Brice,⁴ L. Bugel,¹³ J. Catala-Perez,¹⁸ G. Cheng,³ J. M. Conrad,¹³ Z. Djurcic,³ U. Dore,¹⁵ D. A. Finley,⁴ A. J. Franke,³ C. Giganti,¹⁵ J. J. Gomez-Cadenas,¹⁸ P. Guzowski,⁶ A. Hanson,⁷ Y. Hayato,⁸ G. Jover-Manas,¹ G. Karagiorgi,¹³ T. Katori,⁷ Y. K. Kobayashi,¹⁷ T. Kobilarcik,⁴ H. Kubo,¹⁰ Y. Kurimoto,¹⁰ W. C. Louis,¹¹ P. F. Loverre,¹⁵ L. Ludovici,¹⁵ K. B. M. Mahn,³ C. Mariani,¹⁵ S. Masuike,¹⁷ K. Matsuoka,¹⁰ W. Metcalf,¹² G. Mills,¹¹ G. Mitsuka,⁹ Y. Miyachi,¹⁷ S. Mizugashira,¹⁷ C. D. Moore,⁴ Y. Nakajima,¹⁰ T. Nakaya,¹⁰ R. Napora,¹⁴ P. Nienaber,¹⁶ V. Nguyen,¹³ D. Orme,¹⁰ M. Otani,¹⁰ A. D. Russell,⁴ F. Sanchez,¹ M. H. Shaevitz,³ T.-A. Shibata,¹⁷ M. Sorel,¹⁸ R. J. Stefanski,⁴ H. Takei,¹⁷ H.-K. Tanaka,³ M. Tanaka,⁵ R. Tayloe,⁷ I. J. Taylor,⁶ R. J. Tesarek,⁴ Y. Uchida,⁶ R. Van de Water,¹¹ J. J. Walding,⁶ M. O. Wascko,⁶ H. White,⁴ M. J. Wilking,² M. Yokoyama,¹⁰ G. P. Zeller,¹¹ and E. D. Zimmerman²

(SciBooNE Collaboration)

¹Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
²Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
³Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
⁴Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Batavia, Illinois 60150, USA
⁵High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
⁶Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
⁷Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
⁸Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
⁹Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
¹⁰Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
¹¹Los Alamos National Laboratory; Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
¹²Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
¹³Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
¹⁴Department of Chemistry and Physics, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana 46323, USA
¹⁵Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartmento di Fisica and INFN, 1-000185 Rome, Italy
¹⁶Physics Department, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, Minnesota 55987, USA
¹⁷Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
¹⁸Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, Universidad de Valencia and CSIC, E-46071 Valencia, Spain

Received 3 November 2008; published 31 December 2008

TheSciBooNE Collaboration has performed a search for charged current coherentpion production from muon neutrinos scattering on carbon, nu_mu¹²C-->µ^-12Cpi⁺, withtwo distinct data samples. No evidence for coherent pion productionis observed. We set 90% confidence level upper limits onthe cross section ratio of charged current coherent pion productionto the total charged current cross section at 0.67×10^-2 atmean neutrino energy 1.1 GeV and 1.36×10^-2 at mean neutrino energy2.2 GeV.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.112004
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevD.78.112004
PACS:	13.15.+g; 13.60.Le; 25.30.Pt; 95.55.Vj 13.15.+g Neutrino interactions 13.60.Le Meson production in photon/lepton-hadron interactions 25.30.Pt Nuclear neutrino-induced reactions 95.55.Vj Neutrino, muon, pion, and other elementary particle detectors; cosmic ray detectors YEAR: 2008

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