Search for coherent charged pion production in neutrino-carbon interactions

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作者
Hasegawa, M [1 ]
Aliu, E
Andringa, S
Aoki, S
Argyriades, J
Asakura, K
Ashie, R
Berns, H
Bhang, H
Blondel, A
Borghi, S
Bouchez, J
Burguet-Castell, J
Casper, D
Cavata, C
Cervera, A
Chen, SM
Cho, KO
Choi, JH
Dore, U
Espinal, X
Fechner, M
Fernandez, E
Fukuda, Y
Gomez-Cadenas, J
Gran, R
Hara, T
Hasegawa, T
Hayashi, K
Hayato, Y
Helmer, RL
Hill, J
Hiraide, K
Hosaka, J
Ichikawa, AK
Iinuma, M
Ikeda, A
Inagaki, T
Ishida, T
Ishihara, K
Ishii, T
Ishitsuka, M
Itow, Y
Iwashita, T
Jang, HI
Jeon, EJ
Jeong, IS
Joo, KK
Jover, G
Jung, CK
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[1] Kyoto Univ, Dept Phys, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[2] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Fis Altes Energies, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
[3] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[4] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[5] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[6] CEA Saclay, DAPNIA, F-91190 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[7] Chonnam Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Kwangju 500757, South Korea
[8] Dongshin Univ, Dept Phys, Naju 520714, South Korea
[9] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[10] Univ Geneva, Sect Phys, DPNC, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[11] Univ Hawaii, Dept Phys & Astron, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[12] High Energy Accelerator Res Org KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[13] Hiroshima Univ, Grad Sch Adv Sci Matter, Hiroshima 7398530, Japan
[14] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, Russia
[15] Kobe Univ, Kobe, Hyogo 6578501, Japan
[16] Korea Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[17] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[18] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[19] Miyagi Univ Educ, Dept Phys, Sendai, Miyagi 9800845, Japan
[20] Niigata Univ, Dept Phys, Niigata 9502181, Japan
[21] Okayama Univ, Dept Phys, Okayama 7008530, Japan
[22] Osaka Univ, Dept Phys, Toyonaka, Osaka 5600043, Japan
[23] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-000185 Rome, Italy
[24] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-000185 Rome, Italy
[25] Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul 151747, South Korea
[26] A Soltan Inst Nucl Studies, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
[27] Tohoku Univ, Res Ctr Neutrino Sci, Sendai, Miyagi 9808578, Japan
[28] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[29] Tokyo Univ Sci, Dept Phys, Noda, Chiba 2780022, Japan
[30] Univ Tokyo, Kamioka Observ, Inst Cosm Ray Res, Gifu 5061205, Japan
[31] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res, Res Ctr Cosm Neutrinos, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778582, Japan
[32] TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
[33] Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46071 Valencia, Spain
[34] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[35] Univ Warsaw, Inst Expt Phys, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.252301
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report the result from a search for charged-current coherent pion production induced by muon neutrinos with a mean energy of 1.3 GeV. The data are collected with a fully active scintillator detector in the K2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. No evidence for coherent pion production is observed, and an upper limit of 0.60x10(-2) is set on the cross section ratio of coherent pion production to the total charged-current interaction at 90% confidence level. This is the first experimental limit for coherent charged pion production in the energy region of a few GeV.
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