Dynamical model of coherent pion production in neutrino-nucleus scattering

Journal Article · Mon Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVC.81.035502· OSTI ID:21386717

Nakamura, S X ^[1]; Sato, T ^[2]; Lee, T.-S. H. ^[3]; Szczerbinska, B ^[4]; Kubodera, K ^[5]

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1. Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, C.P. 66318, 05315-970 Sao Paulo, SP (Brazil)
2. Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043 (Japan)
3. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)
4. Dakota State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Madison, SD 57042-1799 (United States)
5. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 (United States)

We study coherent pion production in neutrino-nucleus scattering in the energy region relevant to neutrino oscillation experiments of current interest. Our approach is based on the combined use of the Sato-Lee model of electroweak pion production on a nucleon and the {Delta}-hole model of pion-nucleus reactions. Thus we develop a model that describes pion-nucleus scattering and electroweak coherent pion production in a unified manner. Numerical calculations are carried out for the case of the {sup 12}C target. All the free parameters in our model are fixed by fitting to both total and elastic differential cross sections for pi-{sup 12}C scattering. Then we demonstrate the reliability of our approach by comparing our prediction for coherent pion photoproductions with the data. Finally, we calculate total and differential cross sections for neutrino-induced coherent pion production, and some of the results are compared with recent data from K2K, SciBooNE, and MiniBooNE. We also study the effect of nonlocality of {Delta} propagation in the nucleus and compare the elementary amplitudes used in different microscopic calculations.

• OSTI ID: 21386717
• Journal Information: Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 81, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.81.035502; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2813
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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CARBON 12 TARGET
COHERENT PRODUCTION
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS
FORECASTING
LEE MODEL
NEUTRINO OSCILLATION
NEUTRINO-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
NEUTRINOS
NUCLEONS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PHOTOPRODUCTION
PION-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
PIONS
RELIABILITY
SCATTERING
SIMULATION
TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS
BARYONS
BASIC INTERACTIONS
BOSONS
CROSS SECTIONS
ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
EVALUATION
FERMIONS
HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
HADRONS
INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
LEPTONS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MESON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
MESON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
MESONS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE MODELS
PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS
TARGETS