English

Neutral weak current two-body contributions in inclusive scattering from $^{12}$C

Nuclear Theory 2016-02-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

An ab initio calculation of the sum rules of the neutral weak response functions in 12^{12}C is reported, based on a realistic Hamiltonian, including two- and three-nucleon potentials, and on realistic currents, consisting of one- and two-body terms. We find that the sum rules of the response functions associated with the longitudinal and transverse components of the (space-like) neutral current are largest and that a significant portion (30\simeq 30 %) of the calculated strength is due to two-body terms. This fact may have implications for the MiniBooNE and other neutrino quasi-elastic scattering data on nuclei.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1401.2605,
  title  = {Neutral weak current two-body contributions in inclusive scattering from $^{12}$C},
  author = {A. Lovato and S. Gandolfi and J. Carlson and Steven C. Pieper and R. Schiavilla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.2605},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-22T02:43:30.257Z