Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2008-10-20
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
3 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP08), Philadelphia, USA, July
Scientific paper
The single largest background to future $\bar{\nu_{\mu}}\to \bar{\nu_e}$ ($\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$) oscillation searches is neutral current (NC) $\pi^0$ production. MiniBooNE, which began taking antineutrino data in January 2006, has the world's largest sample of reconstructed $\pi^0$'s produced by antineutrinos. These neutral pions are primarily produced through the $\Delta$ resonance but can also be created through "coherent production." The latter process is the coherent sum of glancing scatters of antineutrinos off a neutron or proton, in which the nucleus is kept intact but a $\pi^0$ is created. A signature of this process is a $\pi^0$ which is highly forward-going. It is useful to study coherent production using antineutrinos rather than neutrinos because the ratio of coherent to resonant scattering is enhanced in antineutrino running. The measurement of NC coherent $\pi^0$ production in the MiniBooNE antineutrino data will be discussed.
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