Published January 1, 2019 | Version v1
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First measurement of nu(mu) charged-current pi(0) production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

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  • 1. Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
  • 2. Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA
  • 3. IIT, Chicago, IL 60616 USA
  • 4. Univ Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 OHE, England
  • 5. Univ Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
  • 6. MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
  • 7. Univ Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
  • 8. Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, POB 500, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
  • 9. Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
  • 10. Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
  • 11. Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
  • 12. TUBITAK Space Technol Res Inst, METU Campus, TR-06800 Ankara, Turkey
  • 13. Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
  • 14. Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA
  • 15. Univ Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YW, England
  • 16. Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA

Description

We report the first measurement of the flux-integrated cross section of nu(mu) charged-current single pi(0) production on argon. This measurement is performed with the MicroBooNE detector, an 85 ton active mass liquid argon time projection chamber exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. This result on argon is compared to past measurements on lighter nuclei to investigate the scaling assumptions used in models of the production and transport of pions in neutrino-nucleus scattering. The techniques used are an important demonstration of the successful reconstruction and analysis of neutrino interactions producing electromagnetic final states using a liquid argon time projection chamber operating at the Earth's surface.

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