PCAC and coherent pion production by neutrinos
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-12-07 v1
Abstract
Coherent pion production in low energy neutrino reactions is discussed in the framework of the partially conserved axial vector current theory (PCAC). The role of lepton mass effects in suppressing production of positively charged pions is discussed. Instead of using models of pion nucleus scattering, the available data on pion carbon scattering are implemented for an analysis of the PCAC prediction. Our results agree well with the published upper limits for positively charged production but are much below the recent MiniBooNE result for neutral pion production.
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@article{arxiv.0908.2758,
title = {PCAC and coherent pion production by neutrinos},
author = {Christoph Berger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.2758},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 7 figures, writeup of talk presented at NUINT 2009