%0 Journal Article
%T Single neutral pion production by charged-current $\bar¦Í_¦Ì$ interactions on hydrocarbon at $\langle E_¦Í\rangle = $ 3.6 GeV
%A T. Le
%A J. L. Palomino
%A L. Aliaga
%A O. Altinok
%A A. Bercellie
%A A. Bodek
%A A. Bravar
%A W. K. Brooks
%A A. Butkevich
%A D. A. Martinez Caicedo
%A M. F. Carneiro
%A M. E. Christy
%A J. Chvojka
%A H. da Motta
%A J. Devan
%A S. A. Dytman
%A G. A. D¨ªaz
%A B. Eberly
%A J. Felix
%A L. Fields
%A R. Fine
%A A. M. Gago
%A H. Gallagher
%A R. Gran
%A D. A. Harris
%A A. Higuera
%A K. Hurtado
%A M. Kordosky
%A E. Maher
%A S. Manly
%A W. A. Mann
%A C. M. Marshall
%A K. S. McFarland
%A C. L. McGivern
%A A. M. McGowan
%A J. Miller
%A J. G. Morf¨ªn
%A J. Mousseau
%A J. K. Nelson
%A A. Norrick
%A J. Osta
%A V. Paolone
%A J. Park
%A C. E. Patrick
%A G. N. Perdue
%A L. Rakotondravohitra
%A M. A. Ramirez
%A R. D. Ransome
%A H. Ray
%A L. Ren
%A P. A. Rodrigues
%A D. Ruterbories
%A H. Schellman
%A D. W. Schmitz
%A J. T. Sobczyk
%A C. J. Solano Salinas
%A N. Tagg
%A B. G. Tice
%A E. Valencia
%A T. Walton
%A J. Wolcott
%A H. Yepes-Ramirez
%A G. Zavala
%A D. Zhang
%A B. P. Ziemer
%A for the MINERvA collaboration
%J Physics
%D 2015
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.039
%X Single neutral pion production via muon antineutrino charged-current interactions in plastic scintillator (CH) is studied using the \minerva detector exposed to the NuMI low-energy, wideband antineutrino beam at Fermilab. Measurement of this process constrains models of neutral pion production in nuclei, which is important because the neutral-current analog is a background for $\bar{\nu}_e$ appearance oscillation experiments. The differential cross sections for $\pi^0$ momentum and production angle, for events with a single observed $\pi^0$ and no charged pions, are presented and compared to model predictions. These results comprise the first measurement of the $\pi^0$ kinematics for this process.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02107v2