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Nuclear dependence of the 2p2h electroweak response in the Relativistic Fermi Gas model

Nuclear Theory 2017-06-28 v1

Abstract

We present the results of a recent study of meson-exchange two-body currents in lepton-nucleus inclusive scattering at various kinematics and for different nuclei within the Relativistic Fermi Gas model. We show that the associated nuclear response functions at their peaks scale as AkF2A k_F^2, for Fermi momentum kFk_F going from 200 to 300 MeV/c and momentum transfer qq from 2kF2k_F to 2 GeV/c. This behavior is different from what is found for the quasielastic response, which scales as A/kFA/k_F. This result can be valuable in the analyses of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, which need to implement these nuclear effects in Monte Carlo simulations for different kinematics and nuclear targets.

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@article{arxiv.1706.08887,
  title  = {Nuclear dependence of the 2p2h electroweak response in the Relativistic Fermi Gas model},
  author = {M. B. Barbaro and J. E. Amaro and J. A. Caballero and A. De Pace and T. W. Donnelly and G. D. Megias and I. Ruiz Simo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.08887},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures, Proccedings of the Workshop "Advanced Aspects in Nuclear Structure and Reactions at Different Energy Scales", 25-28 April 2017, Arbanasi, Bulgaria