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Theoretical uncertainties on quasielastic charged-current neutrino-nucleus cross sections

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We estimate the theoretical uncertainties of the model developed in Phys. Rev. C70 055503 for inclusive quasielastic charged-current neutrino-nucleus reactions at intermediate energies. Besides we quantify the deviations of the predictions of this many body framework from those obtained within a simple Fermi gas model. An special attention has been paid to the ratio \sigma(\mu)/\sigma(e) of interest for experiments on atmospheric neutrinos. We show that uncertainties affecting this ratio are likely smaller than 5%

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0604042,
  title  = {Theoretical uncertainties on quasielastic charged-current neutrino-nucleus cross sections},
  author = {M. Valverde and J. E. Amaro and J. Nieves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0604042},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

10 pages, 6 figures. Few errors corrected. Accepted in Physics Letters B