Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2014) 129: 43
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2014-14043-1

Regular Article

Angular dependence of coherent pion production by neutrinos

¹ DCeI León, Universidad de Guanajuato, C.P. 37150, León, Guanajuato, Mexico
² Department of Physics, Technical University of Dortmund, D-44221, Dortmund, Germany

^* e-mail: higuera@fnal.gov

Received: 28 January 2014
Accepted: 24 February 2014
Published online: 17 March 2014

Abstract

Coherent pion production by neutrinos has been interpreted in the framework of the Partially Conserved Axial Current (PCAC) hypothesis and explicit model calculations are available. In this article we compute angular correlations for the produced pions which may help to separate the signal from the background. We present many figures useful for the experiments and compare them with another model.