No abstract

No abstract

The total cross sections for v,n and v g charged-current interactions and their ratio R = U~( Y~) / ( T~ ( V P ) have been measured as a function of neutrino energy from 0.4 to 10GeV. The experiment is performed using the BNL 7-foot deuterium bubble chamber exposed to the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron wide-band neutrino beam. The absolute values of the cross sections are normalized to the quasielastic scattering (v,n -11.-p) cross section. Above 1.6 GeV the data are consistent with the quark-parton model. We find that u~(vn)/E,=(1.07+0.05) x uT(vp)/EV=(0.54f 0 . 0 4 )~ and u~(vN)/E,=(0.80f0.03)~ lo-'' cm2/GeV for (E,) =3.2 GeV, and R = 1.95+0.10 for (E,) = 3.7 GeV.

We have observed a signal of 55 isolated /-conversion pairs produced in a wide-band neutrino beam using the Fermilab 15-ft bubble chamber filled with a heavy Ne-H2 mixture. The signal is consistent with coherent neutral-current single-/* 0 production followed by decay of the /r° with one of the decay ys being lost. This signal corresponds to a rate of (2.0 ± 0.4) x 10~* 4 of the total v^ charged-current cross section at our average E v of 20 GeV. From this result, we obtain a value of /J~0.98±0.24 for the weak-neutral-current isovector axial-vector coupling.PACS numbers: 13.15.Cj Neutral-current coherent K° production, first suggested by Nachtmann 1 and Lackner 2 and later refined by Rein and Sehgal, 3 occurs predominantly through the interaction of the isovector axial-vector current, the longitudinal part of which behaves like a /r° and scatters elastically from a nucleus exchanging a pomeronlike particle. The importance of coherent x° production is that a precise measurement of the cross section can provide a direct measurement of the isovector axial-vector neutral-current coupling. Using the notation of Hung and Sakurai, 4 one can write the axial-vector weak current as Ja^PAlT 1 + SAl' m0 , where P is the isovector axialvector coupling constant and S is the isoscalar axialvector coupling constant. The standard model of electroweak interactions predicts that ^ = 1 and 5=0.Evidence for neutral-current coherent single-/r° production by neutrinos has been reported by three groups. 5 " 8 Weak coherent x° production was first observed by the Aachen-Padova group, 5 who reconstructed K°ys at an average neutrino energy of 2 GeV. This has been confirmed by Gargamelle data with single fs at a similar low neutrino energy. The third group used a high-energy neutrino beam along with a highly segmented calorimeter. They were forced to rely on a statistical method to identify candidate events. We have directly observed a signal of isolated photon-conversion pairs in a heavy-liquid bubble chamber exposed to a wide-band neutrino beam «£' v >=20 GeV). This signal can be explained by coherent TT 0 production with only one of the 7t° decay photons being observable.The data for the present experiment were taken in the Fermilab 15-ft bubble chamber filled with a heavy Ne-H2 mixture and exposed to a single horn-focused wide-band v^ beam. The heavy neon mixture is ideal for identifying electrons and /s since its radiation length is -40 cm.In the heavy mixture a n can sometimes appear to be a single y. This occurs when a y either fails to convert in the visible volume or converts inside the radiation shower caused by the earlier conversion of the other y. The short conversion length in our liquid ensures that the probability for a ;r°-decay y to convert in the visible volume is large ( -95%); however, as the energy of the it 0 increases, the opening angle between the two decay fs decreases thus increasing the probability for the two conversions to overlap. From examining a large sample of converted y's, criteria were deduced concerning...

The purpose of this note is to report the existence of marked departures from phase space in the effective-mass distributions for the H7i and KK states. We present evidence that, in about 25% of the events observed, the HTT state results from the decay of a resonant state (H ) with a mass of 1535 MeV and a full width of <35 MeV. The observed anomaly in the KK effectivemass distribution is possibly open to different interpretations. If we assume it to be due to the decay of a resonant state K*, we find that M# * = 1020 MeV, and that it has a full width of 20 MeV. However, it may also be possible to explain the effect as due to S-wave KK scattering. These results, as well as preliminary evidence concerning the properties of the E and K , are discussed below.The data for this experiment were obtained in an exposure of the BNL 20-in. hydrogen bubble chamber at the Brookhaven AGS. Details of the exposure and beam have been previously discussed. 1 Data were obtained both at 2.24 and 2.5 BeV/c. The sample reported on here consists of 79 HTT and 37 KK combinations from the following production modes:All events were measured and analyzed using the BNL TRED-KECK system. Except for Reaction (Id), 2 we believe the contamination from other topologically similar event types to be negligible. H°+7TH°+77