@article{99362d8e666b4d02bc00895b87696f88,
title = "Measurement of neutral current single π0 production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector",
abstract = "We report the first measurement of π0 production in neutral current (NC) interactions on argon with average neutrino energy of ≲1 GeV. We use data from the MicroBooNE detector's 85 metric tons active volume liquid argon time projection chamber situated in Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beam and exposed to 5.89×1020 protons on target for this measurement. Measurements of NC π0 events are reported for two exclusive event topologies without charged pions. Those include a topology with two photons from the decay of the π0 and one proton and a topology with two photons and zero protons. Flux-averaged cross sections for each exclusive topology and for their semi-inclusive combination are extracted (efficiency correcting for two-plus proton final states), and the results are compared to predictions from the genie, neut, and nuwro neutrino event generators. We measure cross sections of 1.243±0.185(syst)±0.076(stat), 0.444±0.098±0.047, and 0.624±0.131±0.075 [10-38 cm2/Ar] for the semi-inclusive NCπ0, exclusive NCπ0+1p, and exclusive NCπ0+0p processes, respectively.",
author = "P. Abratenko and J. Anthony and L. Arellano and J. Asaadi and A. Ashkenazi and S. Balasubramanian and B. Baller and C. Barnes and G. Barr and J. Barrow and V. Basque and L. Bathe-Peters and {Benevides Rodrigues}, O. and S. Berkman and A. Bhanderi and A. Bhat and M. Bhattacharya and M. Bishai and A. Blake and T. Bolton and Book, {J. Y.} and L. Camilleri and D. Caratelli and {Caro Terrazas}, I. and F. Cavanna and G. Cerati and Y. Chen and D. Cianci and Conrad, {J. M.} and M. Convery and L. Cooper-Troendle and Crespo-Anad{\'o}n, {J. I.} and {Del Tutto}, M. and Dennis, {S. R.} and P. Detje and A. Devitt and R. Diurba and R. Dorrill and K. Duffy and S. Dytman and B. Eberly and A. Ereditato and Evans, {J. J.} and R. Fine and Finnerud, {O. G.} and {Fiorentini Aguirre}, {G. A.} and Fitzpatrick, {R. S.} and Fleming, {B. T.} and N. Foppiani and E. Piasetzky",
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year = "2023",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.107.012004",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
volume = "107",
number = "1",
}