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Measurement of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent π0 production in the NOvA near detector
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Acero, MA; Adamson, P; Aliaga, L; Alion, T; Allakhverdian, V; Anfimov, N; Antoshkin, A; Arrieta-Diaz, E; Aurisano, A; Back, A; Backhouse, C; Baird, M; Balashov, N; Baldi, P; Bambah, BA; Basher, S; Bays, K; Behera, B; Bending, S; Bernstein, R; Bhatnagar, V; Bhuyan, B; Bian, J; Blair, J; Booth, AC; Bolshakova, A; Bour, P; Bromberg, C; Buchanan, N; Butkevich, A; Campbell, M; Carroll, TJ; Catano-Mur, E; Childress, S; Choudhary, BC; Chowdhury, B; Coan, TE; Colo, M; Corwin, L; Cremonesi, L; Cronin-Hennessy, D; Davies, GS; Derwent, PF; Ding, P; Djurcic, Z; Doyle, D; Dukes, EC; Dung, P; Duyang, H; Edayath, S; Ehrlich, R; Feldman, GJ; Flanagan, W; Frank, MJ; Gallagher, HR; Gandrajula, R; Gao, F; Germani, S; Giri, A; Gomes, RA; Goodman, MC; Grichine, V; Groh, M; Group, R; Guo, B; Habig, A; Hakl, F; Hartnell, J; Hatcher, R; Hatzikoutelis, A; Heller, K; Himmel, A; Holin, A; Howard, B; Huang, J; Hylen, J; Jediny, F; Johnson, C; Judah, M; Kakorin, I; Kalra, D; Kaplan, DM; Keloth, R; Klimov, O; Koerner, LW; Kolupaeva, L; Kotelnikov, S; Kreymer, A; Kullenberg, Ch; Kumar, A; Kuruppu, CD; Kus, V; Lackey, T; Lang, K; Lin, S; Lokajicek, M; Lozier, J; Luchuk, S; Maan, K; Magill, S
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Physical Review D. 102(1)
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The cross section of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent π0 production on a carbon-dominated target is measured in the NOvA near detector. This measurement uses a narrow-band neutrino beam with an average neutrino energy of 2.7 GeV, which is of interest to ongoing and future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The measured, flux-averaged cross section is σ=13.8±0.9(stat)±2.3(syst)×10-40 cm2/nucleus, consistent with model prediction. This result is the most precise measurement of neutral-current coherent π0 production in the few-GeV neutrino energy region.