Measurement of the single π⁰ production rate in neutral current neutrino interactions on water

Ariga, Akitaka; Ereditato, Antonio; Hierholzer, Martin; Koller, Patrick Pascal; Nirkko, Martti; Pistillo, Ciro; Redij, Asmita Ajit; Wilkinson, Callum (2018). Measurement of the single π⁰ production rate in neutral current neutrino interactions on water. Physical review. D - particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 97(3) American Physical Society 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.032002

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The single π⁰ 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 PØD, one of the subdetectors of the T2K near detector. The production rate was measured for data taking periods when the PØD contained water (2.64×10²⁰ protons-on-target) and also periods without water (3.49×10²⁰ protons-on-target). A measurement of the neutral current single π⁰ 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±41 (stat.) ± 69 (sys.) signal events where the uncertainties are statistical (stat.) and systematic (sys.) respectively. This is consistent with the prediction of 157 events from the nominal simulation. The measured to expected ratio is 0.68±0.26(stat)±0.44(sys)±0.12(flux). The nominal simulation uses a flux integrated cross section of 7.63×10-39  cm2 per nucleon with an average neutrino interaction energy of 1.3 GeV.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)

UniBE Contributor:

Ariga, Akitaka, Ereditato, Antonio, Hierholzer, Martin, Koller, Patrick Pascal, Nirkko, Martti, Pistillo, Ciro, Redij, Asmita Ajit, Wilkinson, Callum

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

1550-7998

Publisher:

American Physical Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

Ciro Pistillo

Date Deposited:

26 Mar 2018 08:06

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:11

Publisher DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.97.032002

ArXiv ID:

1704.07467v2

Additional Information:

T2K Collaboration: Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt.

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.112815

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/112815

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