1. Search for coherent charged pion production in neutrino-carbon interactions
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J. H. Choi, M. M. Khabibullin, Stephane T'Jampens, R. Gran, L. Whitehead, R. L. Helmer, T. Ishida, Katsuki Hiraide, S. Andringa, E. Fernandez, Takaaki Kajita, J. Y. Kim, J. Zalipska, A. Blondel, Shoei Nakayama, R. Terri, A. Ikeda, Y. Totsuka, Y. Takubo, Minoru Yoshida, S. Nawang, O. V. Mineev, C. Mariani, Y. Takeuchi, T. Nakadaira, Federico Sanchez, H. I. Jang, G. Jover, Shinya Yamada, G. Sitjes, T. Hara, Takehisa Hasegawa, K. Ishihara, K. K. Joo, K. McConnel, K. Nishikawa, Jordi Burguet-Castell, P. Novella, J. Hill, N. Tamura, Silvia Borghi, R. Schroeter, H. Yokoyama, F. Pierre, Michael B. Smy, M. Sekiguchi, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Y. Takenaga, Masaya Hasegawa, M. Miura, Yuichi Oyama, K. Kaneyuki, J. L. Stone, T. Inagaki, U. Dore, S. B. Kim, Makoto Sakuda, H. C. Bhang, Yu. Kudenko, J. Bouchez, M. Y. Pac, L. Ludovici, W. Wang, Koji Nakamura, Tomoyuki Maruyama, I. S. Jeong, C. Cavata, Itsuo Nakano, J. Argyriades, Toshio Namba, A. N. Khotjantsev, S. Matsuno, Masayuki Nakahata, Taichi Morita, Yasunari Suzuki, T. Kobayashi, T. Kutter, A. K. Ichikawa, H. Maesaka, Yoshitaka Itow, Masaaki Tanaka, A. Sarrat, K. Taki, Ko Okumura, F. Nova, E. J. Jeon, Hiroshi Sato, K. Asakura, P. Kitching, C. W. Walter, A. Konaka, Shigeki Aoki, S P Mikheyev, A. Cervera, C. Mauger, Kate Scholberg, J. Kameda, C. McGrew, Atsumu Suzuki, A. Okada, Y. Hayato, A. Minamino, H. G. Berns, Shoji Yamamoto, K. Hayashi, J. Mallet, Henry W. Sobel, K. Nitta, Tadayuki Takahashi, John G. Learned, Shaomin Chen, A. Tornero-Lopez, A. Rodriguez, D. Kerr, S. Likhoded, E. Sharkey, Y. Kuno, E. Kearns, C. O. Kim, Katsuhiro Kobayashi, Shigetaka Moriyama, Y. Fukuda, C. Saji, C. Yanagisawa, R. Ashie, K. O. Cho, T. Ishii, R. Nambu, X. Espinal, Y. Moriguchi, R. J. Wilkes, I. T. Lim, Masashi Yokoyama, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, J. Kubota, Masataka Iinuma, J. Yoo, Masato Shiozawa, T. Iwashita, C. K. Jung, D. Kielczewska, I. Kato, Y. Obayashi, S. Mine, M. Fechner, S. Ueda, E. Aliu, Mark R. Vagins, N. Yershov, W. R. Kropp, Yusuke Koshio, S. M. Oser, M. Ishitsuka, David William Casper, C. Mitsuda, J. Hosaka, K. K. Shiraishi, P. F. Loverre, T. Sasaki, L. R. Sulak, V. A. Matveev, Blondel, Alain, Borghi, Silvia, Cervera Villanueva, Anselmo, and Schroeter, Raphaël
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Particle physics ,Meson ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Neutrino-nucleus reactions ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,ddc:500.2 ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,Pion ,Experiment-HEP ,0103 physical sciences ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,010306 general physics ,Neutrino oscillation ,Nuclear Experiment ,Charged current ,Physics ,Muon ,Tamura, Norio ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Neutrino oscillations ,Física ,田村, 詔生 ,Production (computer science) ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino ,Lepton - Abstract
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 $0.60 \times 10^{-2}$ 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., 5 pages, 4 figures
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- 2021