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Quasielastic Lepton-Nucleus Scattering and the Correlated Fermi Gas Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-06-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The neutrino research program in the coming decades will require improved precision. A major source of uncertainty is the interaction of neutrinos with nuclei that serve as targets for such experiments. Broadly speaking, this interaction often depends, e.g., for charge-current quasi-elastic scattering, on the combination of ``nucleon physics", expressed by form factors, and ``nuclear physics", expressed by a nuclear model. It is important to get a good handle on both. We present a fully analytic implementation of the Correlated Fermi Gas Model for electron-nucleus and charge-current quasi-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. The implementation is used to compare separately form factors and nuclear model effects for both electron-carbon and neutrino-carbon scattering data.

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@article{arxiv.2405.05342,
  title  = {Quasielastic Lepton-Nucleus Scattering and the Correlated Fermi Gas Model},
  author = {Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya and Sam Carey and Erez O. Cohen and Gil Paz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05342},
  year   = {2025}
}

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32 pages, 17 figures