First Search for Neutral Current Coherent Single-Photon Production in MicroBooNE
Abstract
This article presents the first search for neutrino-induced neutral current coherent single-photon production (NC coherent 1). The search makes use of data from the MicroBooNE 85-tonne active volume liquid argon time projection chamber detector, situated in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB), with an average neutrino energy of GeV. A targeted selection of candidate neutrino interactions with a single photon-like electromagnetic shower in the final state and no visible vertex activity was developed to search for the NC coherent 1 process, along with two auxiliary selections used to constrain the dominant background from NC production. With an integrated exposure of protons on target delivered by the BNB, we set the world's first limit for this rare process, corresponding to an upper limit on the flux-averaged cross section of at 90\% C.L.
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@article{arxiv.2502.06091,
title = {First Search for Neutral Current Coherent Single-Photon Production in MicroBooNE},
author = {MicroBooNE Collaboration and P. Abratenko and D. Andrade Aldana and L. Arellano and J. Asaadi and A. Ashkenazi and S. Balasubramanian and B. Baller and A. Barnard and G. Barr and D. Barrow and J. Barrow and V. Basque and J. Bateman and O. Benevides Rodrigues and S. Berkman and A. Bhat and M. Bhattacharya and M. Bishai and A. Blake and B. Bogart and T. Bolton and M. B. Brunetti and L. Camilleri and D. Caratelli and F. Cavanna and G. Cerati and A. Chappell and Y. Chen and J. M. Conrad and M. Convery and L. Cooper-Troendle and J. I. Crespo-Anadon and R. Cross and M. Del Tutto and S. R. Dennis and P. Detje and R. Diurba and Z. Djurcic and K. Duffy and S. Dytman and B. Eberly and P. Englezos and A. Ereditato and J. J. Evans and C. Fang and B. T. Fleming and W. Foreman and D. Franco and A. P. Furmanski and F. Gao and D. Garcia-Gamez and S. Gardiner and G. Ge and S. Gollapinni and E. Gramellini and P. Green and H. Greenlee and L. Gu and W. Gu and R. Guenette and P. Guzowski and L. Hagaman and M. D. Handley and O. Hen and C. Hilgenberg and G. A. Horton-Smith and A. Hussain and B. Irwin and M. S. Ismail and C. James and X. Ji and J. H. Jo and R. A. Johnson and Y. J. Jwa and D. Kalra and G. Karagiorgi and W. Ketchum and M. Kirby and T. Kobilarcik and N. Lane and J. -Y. Li and Y. Li and K. Lin and B. R. Littlejohn and L. Liu and W. C. Louis and X. Luo and T. Mahmud and C. Mariani and D. Marsden and J. Marshall and N. Martinez and D. A. Martinez Caicedo and S. Martynenko and A. Mastbaum and I. Mawby and N. McConkey and L. Mellet and J. Mendez and J. Micallef and K. Mistry and T. Mohayai and A. Mogan and M. Mooney and A. F. Moor and C. D. Moore and L. Mora Lepin and M. M. Moudgalya and S. Mulleria Babu and D. Naples and A. Navrer-Agasson and N. Nayak and M. Nebot-Guinot and C. Nguyen and J. Nowak and N. Oza and O. Palamara and N. Pallat and V. Paolone and A. Papadopoulou and V. Papavassiliou and H. Parkinson and S. F. Pate and N. Patel and Z. Pavlovic and E. Piasetzky and K. Pletcher and I. Pophale and X. Qian and J. L. Raaf and V. Radeka and A. Rafique and M. Reggiani-Guzzo and J. Rodriguez Rondon and M. Rosenberg and M. Ross-Lonergan and I. Safa and D. W. Schmitz and A. Schukraft and W. Seligman and M. H. Shaevitz and R. Sharankova and J. Shi and E. L. Snider and M. Soderberg and S. Soldner-Rembold and J. Spitz and M. Stancari and J. St. John and T. Strauss and A. M. Szelc and N. Taniuchi and K. Terao and C. Thorpe and D. Torbunov and D. Totani and M. Toups and A. Trettin and Y. -T. Tsai and J. Tyler and M. A. Uchida and T. Usher and B. Viren and J. Wang and M. Weber and H. Wei and A. J. White and S. Wolbers and T. Wongjirad and M. Wospakrik and K. Wresilo and W. Wu and E. Yandel and T. Yang and L. E. Yates and H. W. Yu and G. P. Zeller and J. Zennamo and C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.06091},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
20 pages, 17 figures