Inclusive quasielastic charged-current neutrino-nucleus reactions

Journal Article · Mon Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 2004 · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.70.055503· OSTI ID:20695772

Nieves, J; Amaro, J E; Valverde, M ^[1]

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1. Departamento de Fisica Moderna, Universidad de Granada, E-18071 Granada (Spain)

The quasielastic (QE) contribution of the nuclear inclusive electron scattering model developed by Gil, Nieves, and Oset [Nucl. Phys. A627, 543 (1997); A627, 599 (1997)] is extended to the study of electroweak charged current (CC) induced nuclear reactions, at intermediate energies of interest for future neutrino oscillation experiments. The model accounts for, among other nuclear effects, long range nuclear [random phase approximation (RPA)] correlations, final state interaction (FSI), and Coulomb corrections. Predictions for the inclusive muon capture in {sup 12}C and the reaction {sup 12}C ({nu}{sub {mu}},{mu}{sup -})X near threshold are also given. RPA correlations are shown to play a crucial role and their inclusion leads to one of the best existing simultaneous description of both processes, with accuracies of the order of 10-15 % for the muon capture rate and even better for the Liquid Scintillating Neutrino Detector (LSND) measurement.

• OSTI ID: 20695772
• Journal Information: Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Journal Name: Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 70; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
CAPTURE
CARBON 12
CHARGED CURRENTS
CORRELATIONS
COULOMB CORRECTION
ELECTRONS
FINAL-STATE INTERACTIONS
MUON NEUTRINOS
MUONS MINUS
NEUTRINO OSCILLATION
NEUTRINO-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
QUASI-ELASTIC SCATTERING
RANDOM PHASE APPROXIMATION
WEINBERG-SALAM GAUGE MODEL