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Title: Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of neutral-current ν - C 12 inclusive quasielastic scattering

Abstract

Quasielastic neutrino scattering is an important aspect of the experimental program to study fundamental neutrino properties including neutrino masses, mixing angles, the mass hierarchy and CP-violating phase. Proper interpretation of the experiments requires reliable theoretical calculations of neutrino-nucleus scattering. In this paper we present calculations of response functions and cross sections by neutral-current scattering of neutrinos off $$^{12}$$C. These calculations are based on realistic treatments of nuclear interactions and currents, the latter including the axial, vector, and vector-axial interference terms crucial for determining the difference between neutrino and anti-neutrino scattering and the CP-violating phase. Here in this paper, we find that the strength and energy-dependence of two-nucleon processes induced by correlation effects and interaction currents are crucial in providing the most accurate description of neutrino-nucleus scattering in the quasielastic regime.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [4]
  1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Trento (Italy). Trento Inst. for Fundamentals Physics Applications (TIFPA); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Mathematics and Computer Science Division
  4. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States). Theory Center; Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States). Dept. of Physics
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Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE Office of Science - Office of Nuclear Physics
OSTI Identifier:
1524379
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1423155; OSTI ID: 1423865; OSTI ID: 1426780
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-30294; JLAB-THY-17-2584; DOE/OR/-23177-4274; arXiv:1711.02047
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985; PRVCAN
Grant/Contract Number:  
89233218CNA000001; AC02-06CH11357; SC0010300; AC52-06NA25396; AC05-06OR23177; AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 97; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Nucleus-neutrino interactions; electroweak fields

Citation Formats

Lovato, A., Gandolfi, S., Carlson, J., Lusk, Ewing, Pieper, Steven C., and Schiavilla, R. Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of neutral-current ν-C12 inclusive quasielastic scattering. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.97.022502.
Lovato, A., Gandolfi, S., Carlson, J., Lusk, Ewing, Pieper, Steven C., & Schiavilla, R. Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of neutral-current ν-C12 inclusive quasielastic scattering. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.022502
Lovato, A., Gandolfi, S., Carlson, J., Lusk, Ewing, Pieper, Steven C., and Schiavilla, R. Thu . "Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of neutral-current ν-C12 inclusive quasielastic scattering". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.022502. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1524379.
@article{osti_1524379,
title = {Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of neutral-current ν-C12 inclusive quasielastic scattering},
author = {Lovato, A. and Gandolfi, S. and Carlson, J. and Lusk, Ewing and Pieper, Steven C. and Schiavilla, R.},
abstractNote = {Quasielastic neutrino scattering is an important aspect of the experimental program to study fundamental neutrino properties including neutrino masses, mixing angles, the mass hierarchy and CP-violating phase. Proper interpretation of the experiments requires reliable theoretical calculations of neutrino-nucleus scattering. In this paper we present calculations of response functions and cross sections by neutral-current scattering of neutrinos off $^{12}$C. These calculations are based on realistic treatments of nuclear interactions and currents, the latter including the axial, vector, and vector-axial interference terms crucial for determining the difference between neutrino and anti-neutrino scattering and the CP-violating phase. Here in this paper, we find that the strength and energy-dependence of two-nucleon processes induced by correlation effects and interaction currents are crucial in providing the most accurate description of neutrino-nucleus scattering in the quasielastic regime.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.97.022502},
journal = {Physical Review C},
number = 2,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: (Color online) Neutral-current response functions in 12C at momentum transfer q = 570 MeV/c, corresponding to the AV18/IL7 Hamiltonian and obtained with one-body only (dashed lines) and one- and two-body (solid lines) currents. The narrow bands indicate the uncertainty in the maximum-entropy inversion. The vector and axial contributionsmore » are shown separately in all cases but for Rxy. See text for further explanations.« less

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