Low Energy Photopion Production From Pions And Neutral Pion Decay PDF Download

We studied single neutral pion production via muon antineutrino charged-current interactions in plastic scintillator (CH) using the MINERvA detector exposed to the NuMI low-energy, wideband antineutrino beam at Fermilab. Measurement of this process constrains models of neutral pion production in nuclei, which is important because the neutral-current analog is a background for appearance oscillation experiments. Furthermore, the differential cross sections for ?0 momentum and production angle, for events with a single observed ?0 and no charged pions, are presented and compared to model predictions. These results comprise the first measurement of the ?0 kinematics for this process.