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Spectral function approach in NuWro: modeling of multinucleon final states in quasielastic scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-08-15 v1 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Neutrino-oscillation experiments performed in the few-GeV energy region create an urgent demand for a significant improvement in the accuracy of modeling of neutrino interactions with atomic nuclei. Here, we report an updated implementation of the spectral function approach in the \nuwro{} Monte Carlo generator, which consistently treats multinucleon final-states in quasielastic scattering at the inclusive and exclusive level. After validating its accuracy against inclusive electron-scattering data, we compare its predictions to various neutrino cross sections from MicroBooNE. We find that with the multinucleon contribution, these data are reproduced with χ2\chi^2 per degree of freedom of 1.3--1.8, compared to 2.7--7.2 without it.

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@article{arxiv.2508.10101,
  title  = {Spectral function approach in NuWro: modeling of multinucleon final states in quasielastic scattering},
  author = {Artur M. Ankowski and Rwik Dharmapal Banerjee and Jan T. Sobczyk and José L. Bonilla and Krzysztof M. Graczyk and Beata E. Kowal and Hemant Prasad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.10101},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages, 11 figures