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Nuclear Transparency in Monte Carlo Neutrino Event Generators

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2020-09-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Hadron cascade model is an essential part of Monte Carlo neutrino event generators that governs final state interactions of knocked-out nucleons and produced pions. It is shown that such model enriched with physically motivated modifications of nucleon-nucleon cross section and incorporation of nuclear correlation effects is able to reproduce experimental nuclear transparency data. Uncertainty of nucleon final state interactions effects is estimated and applied to recent neutrino-nucleus cross section measurements that include an outgoing proton in the experimental signal. Conclusions are drawn on a perspective of identification of events that originate from two-body current mechanism.

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@article{arxiv.1902.05618,
  title  = {Nuclear Transparency in Monte Carlo Neutrino Event Generators},
  author = {Kajetan Niewczas and Jan T. Sobczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.05618},
  year   = {2020}
}

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10 pages, 7 figures

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