Confronting electron- and neutrino-nucleus scattering
Abstract
The analysis of the sample of charged current quasi elastic events collected by the MiniBooNE Collaboration suggests that the scheme successfully employed to describe electron-nucleus scattering fails to explain neutrino-nucleus cross sections. I argue that, due to flux average, the double differential neutrino-nucleus cross section does not allow for a clearcut determination of the dominant reaction mechanism. A systematic study of the large body of electron scattering data may help to identify the processes, other than single nucleon knockout, contributing to the observed neutrino cross section.
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@article{arxiv.1110.1835,
title = {Confronting electron- and neutrino-nucleus scattering},
author = {Omar Benhar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.1835},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Invited paper to NUFACT 11, XIIIth International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super Beams and Beta Beams, 1-6 August 2011, CERN and University of Geneva (submitted to IOP conference series)