@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. 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. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the {"}https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/{"}Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.",
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",
}