Measurement of u_\mu and \bar u_\mu Induced Neutral Current Single $\pi^0$ Production Cross Sections on Mineral Oil at E_ u~O(1 GeV)
A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson, A.O. Bazarko, S. J. Brice, B. Brown, L. Bugel, J. Cao, L. Coney, J. M. Conrad, D E Cox, A. Curioni · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2009
MiniBooNE reports the first absolute cross sections for neutral current single {pi}{sup 0} production on CH{sub 2} induced by neutrino and antineutrino interactions measured from the largest sets of NC {pi}{sup 0} events collected to date. The principal result consists of differential cross sections measured as functions of {pi}{sup 0} momentum and {pi}{sup 0} angle averaged over the neutrino flux at MiniBooNE. We find total cross sections of (4.76 {+-} 0.05{sub stat} {+-} 0.40{sub sys}) x 10{sup -40} cm{sup 2}/nucleon at a mean energy of = 808 MeV and (1.48 {+-} 0.05{sub stat} {+-} 0.14{sub sys}) x 10{sup -40} cm{sup 2}/nucleon at a mean energy of = 664 MeV for {nu}{sub {mu}} and {bar {nu}}{sub {mu}} induced production, respectively. In addition, we have included measurements of the neutrino and antineutrino total cross sections for incoherent exclusive NC 1{pi}{sup 0} production corrected for the effects of final state interactions to compare to prior results.