First Measurement of $ν_μ$ Charged-Current $π^{0}$ Production on Argon with a LArTPC
Creators: name: MicroBooNE Collaboration
name: Adams, C.
name: Alrashed, M.
name: An, R.
name: Anthony, J.
name: Asaadi, J.
name: Ashkenazi, A.
name: Auger, M.
name: Balasubramanian, S.
name: Baller, B.
name: Barnes, C.
name: Barr, G.
name: Bass, M.
name: Bay, F.
name: Bhat, A.
name: Bhattacharya, K.
name: Bishai, M.
name: Blake, A.
name: Bolton, T.
name: Camilleri, L.
name: Caratelli, D.
name: Terrazas, I. Caro
name: Carr, R.
name: Fernandez, R. Castillo
name: Cavanna, F.
name: Cerati, G.
name: Chen, Y.
name: Church, E.
name: Cianci, D.
name: Cohen, E. O.
name: Collin, G. H.
name: Conrad, J. M.
name: Convery, M.
name: Cooper-Troendle, L.
name: Crespo-Anadon, J. I.
name: Del Tutto, M.
name: Devitt, D.
name: Diaz, A.
name: Duffy, K.
name: Dytman, S.
name: Eberly, B.
name: Ereditato, A.
name: Sanchez, L. Escudero
name: Esquivel, J.
name: Evans, J. J.
name: Fadeeva, A. A.
name: Fitzpatrick, R. S.
name: Fleming, B. T.
name: Franco, D.
name: Furmanski, A. P.
name: Garcia-Gamez, D.
name: Genty, V.
name: Goeldi, D.
name: Gollapinni, S.
name: Goodwin, O.
name: Gramellini, E.
name: Greenlee, H.
name: Grosso, R.
name: Guenette, R.
name: Guzowski, P.
name: Hackenburg, A.
name: Hamilton, P.
name: Hen, O.
name: Hewes, V
name: Hill, C.
name: Horton-Smith, G. A.
name: Hourlier, A.
name: Huang, E. -C.
name: James, C.
name: de Vries, J. Jan
name: Ji, X.
name: Jiang, L.
name: Johnson, R. A.
name: Joshi, J.
name: Jostlein, H.
name: Jwa, Y. -J.
name: Karagiorgi, G.
name: Ketchum, W.
name: Kirby, B.
name: Kirby, M.
name: Kobilarcik, T.
name: Kreslo, I.
name: Lepetic, I.
name: Li, Y.
name: Lister, A.
name: Littlejohn, B. R.
name: Lockwitz, S.
name: Lorca, D.
name: Louis, W. C.
name: Luethi, M.
name: Lundberg, B.
name: Luo, X.
name: Marchionni, A.
name: Marcocci, S.
name: Mariani, C.
name: Marshall, J.
name: Martin-Albo, J.
name: Caicedo, D. A. Martinez
name: Mastbaum, A.
name: Meddage, V.
name: Mettler, T.
name: Mistry, K.
name: Mogan, A.
name: Moon, J.
name: Mooney, M.
name: Moore, C. D.
name: Mousseau, J.
name: Murphy, M.
name: Murrells, R.
name: Naples, D.
name: Nienaber, P.
name: Nowak, J.
name: Palamara, O.
name: Pandey, V.
name: Paolone, V.
name: Papadopoulou, A.
name: Papavassiliou, V.
name: Pate, S. F.
name: Pavlovic, Z.
name: Piasetzky, E.
name: Porzio, D.
name: Pulliam, G.
name: Qian, X.
name: Raaf, J. L.
name: Rafique, A.
name: Ren, L.
name: Rochester, L.
name: Ross-Lonergan, M.
name: von Rohr, C. Rudolf
name: Russell, B.
name: Scanavini, G.
name: Schmitz, D. W.
name: Schukraft, A.
name: Seligman, W.
name: Shaevitz, M. H.
name: Sharankova, R.
name: Sinclair, J.
name: Smith, A.
name: Snider, E. L.
name: Soderberg, M.
name: Soldner-Rembold, S.
name: Soleti, S. R.
name: Spentzouris, P.
name: Spitz, J.
name: John, J. St.
name: Strauss, T.
name: Sutton, K.
name: Sword-Fehlberg, S.
name: Szelc, A. M.
name: Tagg, N.
name: Tang, W.
name: Terao, K.
name: Thomson, M.
name: Thornton, R. T.
name: Toups, M.
name: Tsai, Y. -T.
name: Tufanli, S.
name: Usher, T.
name: Van De Pontseele, W.
name: Van de Water, R. G.
name: Viren, B.
name: Weber, M.
name: Wei, H.
name: Wickremasinghe, D. A.
name: Wierman, K.
name: Williams, Z.
name: Wolbers, S.
name: Wongjirad, T.
name: Woodruff, K.
name: Yang, T.
name: Yarbrough, G.
name: Yates, L. E.
name: Zeller, G. P.
name: Zennamo, J.
name: Zhang, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first measurement of the flux-integrated cross section of $ν_μ$ charged-current single $π^{0}$ production on argon. This measurement is performed with the MicroBooNE detector, an 85 ton active mass liquid argon time projection chamber exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. This result on argon is compared to past measurements on lighter nuclei to investigate the scaling assumptions used in models of the production and transport of pions in neutrino-nucleus scattering. The techniques used are an important demonstration of the successful reconstruction and analysis of neutrino interactions producing electromagnetic final states using a liquid argon time projection chamber operating at the earth's surface.