Direct extraction of nuclear effects in quasielastic scattering on carbon
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2016-08-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Nuclear effects on neutrino reactions are expected to be a significant complication in current and future neutrino oscillation experiments seeking precision measurements of neutrino flavor transitions. Calculations of these nuclear effects are hampered by a lack of experimental data comparing neutrino reactions on free nucleons to neutrino reactions on nuclei. We present results from a novel technique that compares neutrino and antineutrino charged current quasielastic scattering on hydrocarbons to extract a cross section ratio of antineutrino charged current elastic reactions on free protons to charged current quasielastic reactions on the protons bound in a carbon nucleus. This measurement of nuclear effects is compared to models.
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@article{arxiv.1602.07096,
title = {Direct extraction of nuclear effects in quasielastic scattering on carbon},
author = {Callum Wilkinson and Kevin S. McFarland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.07096},
year = {2016}
}