First Measurement of Neutrino and Antineutrino Coherent Charged Pion Production on Argon

Abstract

We report on the first cross section measurements for charged current coherent pion production by neutrinos and antineutrinos on argon. These measurements are performed using the ArgoNeuT detector exposed to the NuMI beam at Fermilab. The cross sections are measured to be $2.6_{-1.0}^{+1.2}(stat{)}_{-0.4}^{+0.3}(syst)\times 10^{-38}{\text{cm}}^2/\text{Ar}$ for neutrinos at a mean energy of $9.6$ GeV and $5.5_{-2.1}^{+2.6}(stat{)}_{-0.7}^{+0.6}(syst)\times 10^{-39}{\text{cm}}^2/\text{Ar}$ for antineutrinos at a mean energy of $3.6$ GeV.

5 pages, 3 figures, accepted version

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• Weak Pion Production off the Nucleon
• Search for Charged Current Coherent Pion Production on Carbon in a Few-GeV Neutrino Beam
• Measurement of Coherent Production of ${\pi }^{\pm }$ in Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Beams on Carbon from $E_{\nu }$ of $1.5$ to $20$ GeV
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• Coherent Pion Production

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