Quasi-elastic neutrino charged-current scattering cross sections on oxygen

Journal Article · Mon Oct 15 04:00:00 EDT 2007 · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVC.76.045502· OSTI ID:21067841

Butkevich, A V; Kulagin, S A ^[1]

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1. Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Science, 60th October Anniversary Prosp. 7A, Moscow RU-117312 (Russian Federation)

The charged-current quasi-elastic scattering of muon neutrinos on an oxygen target is computed for neutrino energies between 200 MeV and 2.5 GeV using the relativistic distorted-wave impulse approximation with relativistic optical potential, which was earlier successfully applied to describe electron-nucleus data. We study both neutrino and electron processes and show that the reduced exclusive cross section for neutrino and electron scattering are similar. The comparison with the relativistic Fermi gas model (RFGM), which is widely used in data analyses of neutrino experiments, shows that the RFGM fails completely when applied to exclusive cross section data and leads to overestimated values of inclusive and total cross sections. We also found significant nuclear-model dependence of exclusive, inclusive, and total cross sections for about 1 GeV energy.

• OSTI ID: 21067841
• Journal Information: Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Journal Name: Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 76; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
CHARGED CURRENTS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DATA ANALYSIS
DISTORTED WAVE THEORY
ELECTRONS
FERMI GAS MODEL
GEV RANGE
IMPULSE APPROXIMATION
MEV RANGE
MUON NEUTRINOS
NEUTRINO REACTIONS
NEUTRINO-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
OXYGEN 16 TARGET
POTENTIALS
QUASI-ELASTIC SCATTERING
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS