Neutrino-induced coherent pion production off nuclei reexamined
Nuclear Theory
2013-05-29 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
It is pointed out that so far all theoretical estimates of coherent pion production off nuclei induced by neutrinos rely on the 'local approximation' well known in photonuclear physics. The effects of dropping this approximation are discussed. It is found that in a plane wave approximation for the pion the local approximation overestimates the coherent neutrino-induced pion production on nuclei.
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@article{arxiv.0901.2837,
title = {Neutrino-induced coherent pion production off nuclei reexamined},
author = {T. Leitner and U. Mosel and S. Winkelmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.2837},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
v3: comments on pion FSI added, minor corrections; version as published in Phys. Rev. C