Charged current antineutrino reactions from {sup 12}C at MiniBooNE energies

Journal Article · Tue May 01 04:00:00 EDT 2007 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.093003· OSTI ID:21020467

Athar, M Sajjad; Ahmad, Shakeb; Singh, S K ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202 002 (India)

A study of charged current induced antineutrino interactions from nuclei has been done for the intermediate energy antineutrinos and applied to {sup 12}C, relevant for ongoing experiment by MiniBooNE collaboration. The calculations have been done for the quasielastic and inelastic lepton production as well as for the incoherent and the coherent pion production processes. The calculations are done in local density approximation. In the case of the quasielastic reaction the effects of Pauli blocking, Fermi motion effects, renormalization of weak transition strengths in nuclear medium and the Coulomb distortion of the outgoing lepton have been taken into account. For the inelastic processes the calculations have been done in the {delta} dominance model and take into account the effect of Pauli blocking, Fermi motion of the nucleon, and renormalization of {delta} properties in a nuclear medium. The effect of final state interactions of pions is also taken into account. The numerical results for the total cross sections for the charged current quasielastic scattering and incoherent pion production processes are compared with earlier experimental results available in freon and freon-propane. It is found that nuclear medium effects give strong reduction in the cross sections leading to satisfactory agreement with the available data.

• OSTI ID: 21020467
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 75; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANTINEUTRINO REACTIONS
ANTINEUTRINOS
APPROXIMATIONS
CARBON 12
CHANNELING
CHARGED CURRENTS
FINAL-STATE INTERACTIONS
NUCLEONS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PIONS
QUASI-ELASTIC SCATTERING
RENORMALIZATION
TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS