Inclusive charged-current neutrino-nucleus reactions

By J. Nieves, I. Simó, M. V. Vacas. 2011

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We present a model for weak charged-current induced nuclear reactions at energies of interest for current and future neutrino oscillation experiments. This model is a natural extension of the work in Refs. [1,2], where the quasielastic contribution to the inclusive electron and neutrino scattering on nuclei was analyzed. The model is based on a systematic many-body expansion of the gauge boson absorption modes that includes one, two, and even three-body mechanisms, as well as the excitation of {Delta} isobars. The whole scheme has no free parameters, besides those previously adjusted to the weak pion production off the nucleon cross sections in the deuteron, since all nuclear effects were set up in previous studies of photon, electron, and pion interactions with nuclei. We have discussed at length the recent charged-current quasielastic MiniBooNE cross section data, and showed that two-nucleon knockout mechanisms are essential to describing these measurements.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Citations in the corpus

• Volume I. Introduction to DUNE (2020, methodology): “Even so, MINERvA scales down non-resonance pion production [71], includes a random phase approximation model (RPA) [72, 73], and incorporates a multi-nucleon model [74, 75, 76] with an empirical enhancement in the dip region between the QE and ∆ region that is determined by a fit to the neutrino dat”
• Measurement of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations by the T2K experiment including a new additional sample of nu(e) interactions at the far detector (2017, unknown): “Multi-nucleon interactions (2p2h) cross section on (12)C as a function of energy from the models of Nieves (reference model in the text) [40] and Martini (alternative model in the text) [70].”
• Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume II: DUNE Physics (2020, methodology): “or “Valencia” model [157, 158] for multinucleon (2p2h) contributions to the cross section.”
• Long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics potential of the DUNE experiment (2020, unknown): “The 2p2h contribution to the cross section comes from the Valencia model [34,35].”
• Improved measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters by the NOvA experiment (2021, methodology): “CC interactions with two nucleons producing two holes (2p2h) are given by the IFIC València model [57, 58].”