Analysis of Charged-Current Neutrino-Nucleus Cross Section

A study of the cross section for chaged-current quasielastic (CCQE) scattering on nuclei has been performed using a description of nuclear dynamics based on the Relativistic Fermi Gas model (RFG). The role played by different parametrizations for the weak nucleon form factors is analyzed taking into account the relevance of the axial mass value. The results obtained are compared with the recent data for neutrinos measured by the MiniBooNE Collaboration.Dirección General de Investigación (DGI). España FIS2011-28738-C02-01Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear (CPAN) CSD2007- 0004

Charged-current quasielastic neutrino scattering cross sections on 12 C with realistic spectral and scaling functions

Charge-current quasielastic (anti)neutrino scattering cross sections on a 12C target are analyzed using a spectral function S(p,E) that gives a scaling function in accordance with the (e,e′) scattering data. The spectral function accounts for the nucleon-nucleon (NN) correlations, it has a realistic energy dependence, and natural orbitals (NOs) from the Jastrow correlation method are used in its construction. In all calculations the standard value of the axial mass MA=1.032 GeV/c2 is used. The results are compared with those when NN correlations are not included, as in the relativistic Fermi gas model, or when harmonic-oscillator single-particle wave functions are used instead of NOs. The role of the final-state interactions (FSIs) on the theoretical spectral and scaling functions, as well as on the cross sections, is accounted for. A comparison of the results for the cases with and without FSI, as well as to results from the phenomenological scaling function obtained from the superscaling analysis, is carried out. Our calculations based on the impulse approximation underpredict the MiniBooNE data but agree with the data from the NOMAD experiment. The possible missing ingredients in the considered theoretical models are discussed.DGI y FEDER FIS2011-28738-C02-01 FPA2010-17142Junta de AndalucíaPrograma Consolider-Ingenio 2000 CSD2007-0004

Semi-inclusive charged-current neutrino-nucleus cross sections in the relativistic plane-wave impulse approximation

Neutrino-nucleus quasielastic scattering is studied in the plane-wave impulse approximation for three nuclear models: the relativistic Fermi gas (RFG), the independent-particle shell model (IPSM), and the natural orbitals (NO) model with Lorentzian dependence of the excitation energy. A complete study of the kinematics of the semi-inclusive process and the associated cross sections are presented and discussed for 40Ar and 12C. Inclusive cross sections are also obtained by integrating the semi-inclusive expressions over the outgoing hadron. Results are consistent with previous studies restricted to the inclusive channel. In particular, a comparison with the analytical results for the RFG model is performed. Explicit expressions for the hadronic tensor and the 10 semiinclusive nuclear responses are given. Theoretical predictions are compared with semi-inclusive experimental data from T2K experiment.Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades de España y FEDER (Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional). FIS2017-88410-PJunta de Andalucía. FQM160 y SOMM17/6105/UG

Semi-inclusive charged-current neutrino-nucleus reactions: Analysis of data in the Relativistic Plane-Wave Impulse Approximation

Semi-inclusive neutrino-nucleus cross sections within the plane-wave impulse approximation (PWIA) for three nuclear models: relativistic Fermi gas (RFG), independent-particle shell model (IPSM) and natural orbitals shell model (NO) are compared with the available CC0π measurements from the T2K, MINERνA and MicroBooNE collaborations where a muon and at least one proton were detected in the final state. Results are presented as a function of the momenta and angles of the final particles, as well as in terms of the imbalances between proton and muon kinematics. The analysis reveals that contributions beyond PWIA are crucial to explain the experimental measurements and that the study of correlations between final-state proton and muon kinematics can provide valuable information on relevant nuclear effects such as initial state dynamics and final state interactions.Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades FIS2017-88410-PJunta de Andalucía PID2020-114687GB-10

Overview of Neutrino–Nucleus Interactions

Neutrino–nucleus reactions are surveyed. The approximations usually made are identified and a comparison to the corresponding electron–nucleus processes is presented. Impulse Approximation (IA), factorization of the cross-section and scaling approaches (SA) to lepton–nucleus scattering are examined in detail

Overview of neutrino-nucleus quasielastic scattering

A review of quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering will be presented, with emphasis on bringing together the knowledge (and language) of neutrino physics, electron scattering, and nuclear structure communities. Assumptions commonly made which simplify the theoretical calculations will be examined. Finally, an attempt will be made to identify places where improvement from either theoretical or experimental sides would be more significant.Dirección General de Investigación (DGI). España FPA2007-62216, FIS2008-04189 y FPA2006-13807-C02-01Spanish Consolider-Ingenio programme CPAN CSD2007-0004

Evaluation of theoretical uncertainties in parity-violating electron scattering from nucleons and nuclei

Parity-violating polarized electron scattering from nucleons and nuclei provides an excellent tool to extract valuable information on nuclear and nucleon structure, as well as to determine Standard Model couplings and higher-order radiative corrections. As measurements become more precise, theoretical models should improve accordingly in order to exploit the experimental data fully in extracting meaningful information. At the same time, it is crucial that theoretical evaluations come with realistic estimations of the corresponding theoretical uncertainties to establish that the precision reached in the measurements is not compromised. Here we consider isospin mixing and the charge distribution in nuclei, and strangeness content of the nucleon together with its axial form factor.Junta de Andalucía FQM-16

Superscaling and neutral current quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering

The superscaling approach is applied to studies of neutral current neutrino reactions in the quasielastic regime. Using input from scaling analyses of electron scattering data, predictions for high-energy neutrino and antineutrino cross sections are given and compared with results obtained using the relativistic Fermi gas model. The influence of strangeness content inside the nucleons in the nucleus is also explored.Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (España) y FEDER,. FIS2005-01105, FPA2005-04460 y FIS2005- 00810Junta de Andalucía y el Ministerio de Educación y Ciencias de España (MEC) 04-17 y 05-22Department of Energy de los EE.UU. DE-FC02-94ER4081

SuSAv2 Model for Inelastic Neutrino-nucleus Scattering

The susperscaling model SuSAv2, already available for charged-current neutrino-nucleus cross sections in the quasielastic region, is extended to the full inelastic regime. In the model the resonance production and deep inelastic reactions are described through the extension to the neutrino sector of the SuSAv2 inelastic model developed for (e, e′) reactions, which combines phenomenological structure functions with a nuclear scaling function. This work also compares two different descriptions of the Δ resonance region, one based on a global scaling function for the full inelastic spectrum and the other on a semiphenomenological Δ scaling function extracted from (e, e′) data for this specific region and updated with respect to previous work. The results of the model are tested against (e, e′) data on C12, O16, Ca40, and Ar40 and applied to the study of the charged current inclusive neutrino cross-section on C12 and Ar40 measured by the T2K, MicroBooNE, ArgoNEUT, and MINERvA experiments, thus covering several kinematical regions.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2020–114687 GB-I00Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades FIS2017-88410-Junta de Andalucía FQM160, SOMM17/6105/UGR, USE-21618-KUniversity of Tokyo FY2020, FY2021European Union 83948