@article{f33a132e9a8d46a3a8227b7afc2d6294,
title = "Measurement of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent π0 production in the NOvA near detector",
abstract = "The cross section of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent π0 production on a carbon-dominated target is measured in the NOvA near detector. This measurement uses a narrow-band neutrino beam with an average neutrino energy of 2.7 GeV, which is of interest to ongoing and future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The measured, flux-averaged cross section is σ=13.8±0.9(stat)±2.3(syst)×10-40 cm2/nucleus, consistent with model prediction. This result is the most precise measurement of neutral-current coherent π0 production in the few-GeV neutrino energy region. ",
author = "{NOvA Collaboration} and Acero, {M. A.} and P. Adamson and L. Aliaga and T. Alion and V. Allakhverdian and N. Anfimov and A. Antoshkin and E. Arrieta-Diaz and A. Aurisano and A. Back and C. Backhouse and M. Baird and N. Balashov and P. Baldi and Bambah, {B. A.} and S. Basher and K. Bays and B. Behera and S. Bending and R. Bernstein and V. Bhatnagar and B. Bhuyan and J. Bian and J. Blair and Booth, {A. C.} and A. Bolshakova and P. Bour and C. Bromberg and N. Buchanan and A. Butkevich and M. Campbell and Carroll, {T. J.} and E. Catano-Mur and S. Childress and Choudhary, {B. C.} and B. Chowdhury and Coan, {T. E.} and M. Colo and L. Corwin and L. Cremonesi and D. Cronin-Hennessy and Davies, {G. S.} and Derwent, {P. F.} and P. Ding and Z. Djurcic and D. Doyle and Dukes, {E. C.} and P. Dung and H. Duyang and D. Whittington",
note = "Funding Information: This document was prepared by the NOvA Collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP user facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Department of Science and Technology, India; the European Research Council; the MSMT CR, GA UK, Czech Republic; the RAS, RFBR, RMES, RSF, and BASIS Foundation, Russia; CNPq and FAPEG, Brazil; STFC and the Royal Society, United Kingdom; and the state and University of Minnesota. We are grateful for the contributions of the staffs of the University of Minnesota at the Ash River Laboratory and of Fermilab.",
year = "2020",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.102.012004",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "102",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "1",
}