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Recently, a measurement of the vector-boson scattering process with same-sign W bosons has been reported by the CMS collaboration. Hence it is of prime importance to have precise predictions with next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy. In…

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The prospects of extracting new physics signals in coherent elastic neutrino--nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) processes are limited by the precision with which the underlying nuclear structure physics, embedded in the weak nuclear form…

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Unitarity relates the total cross section for neutrino-nucleon scattering to the neutrino-nucleon forward scattering amplitude. Assuming the validity of the perturbative expansion of the forward amplitude in the {\em weak} coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Duane A. Dicus , Stefan Kretzer , Wayne W. Repko , Carl Schmidt

Theoretical study of systematics of neutron scattering cross sections on various materials for neutron energies up to several hundred MeV are of practical importance. In this paper, we analysed the experimental neutron scattering total…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Gowda , S. S. V. Suryanarayana , S. Ganesan

We investigate nuclear-resonant electron scattering as occurring in the two-step process of nuclear excitation by electron capture (NEEC) followed by internal conversion. The nuclear excitation and decay are treated by a phenomenological…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-04-08 Adriana Pálffy , Zoltán Harman

We investigate meson-exchange currents (MEC) in the one-particle emission transverse response of nuclear matter, incorporating short-range correlations via the Bethe-Goldstone equation with a realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-27 Paloma R. Casale , Jose E. Amaro

The role of the meson-exchange current correction to the nuclear charge operator is studied in electron scattering processes involving the excitation of medium and heavy nuclei to energies up to the quasi-elastic peak. The effect of these…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. M. Lallena

Understanding nuclear effects is essential for improving the sensitivity of neutrino oscillation measurements. Validating nuclear models solely through neutrino scattering data is challenging due to limited statistics and the broad energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 Seisho Abe

We present calculations of various electroweak response functions for the 16O nucleus obtained using coupled-cluster theory in conjunction with the Lorentz integral transform method. We employ nuclear forces derived at next-to-leading order…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Bijaya Acharya , Joanna E. Sobczyk , Sonia Bacca , Gaute Hagen , Weiguang Jiang

We discuss some differences and similarities between electron and neutrino scattering off atomic nuclei. We find that, in the giant resonance region, the two processes excite different nuclear modes, therefore the weak and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Botrugno , G. Co'

The nucleon-nucleon short-range correlation NN-SRC is one of the key issues of nuclear physics, which typically manifest themselves in high-momentum components of the nuclear momentum distributions. In this letter, the nuclear spectral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-27 Qinglin Niu , Jian Liu , Yuanlong Guo , Chang Xu , Mengjiao Lyu , Zhongzhou Ren

In recent years, many studies on neutrino-nucleus scattering have been carried out to investigate nuclear structures and the interactions between neutrinos and nucleons. This paper develops a charged-current quasielastic (CCQE)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-12 Jian Liu , Qiang Su , Qinglin Niu , Lei Wang , Zhongzhou Ren

Calculations of neutral-current neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections are important for interpreting low- and intermediate-energy neutrino data, where terrestrial measurements remain limited. The first observation of coherent elastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-18 Muhammad Farooq , Shakeel Mahmood , Muhammad Faisal Khan

The nu-e-bar electron elastic scattering cross-section was measured with a CsI(Tl) scintillating crystal detector array with a total mass of 187 kg at the Kuo-Sheng Nuclear Power Station. The detectors were exposed to a reactor nu-e-bar…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Muhammed Deniz , Selcuk Bilmis , Henry T. Wong

The electron-neutrino charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) cross section on nuclei is an important input parameter for electron neutrino appearance oscillation experiments. Current experiments typically begin with the muon neutrino cross…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Wolcott

The cross section for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) depends on the response of the target nucleus to the external current, in the Standard Model (SM) mediated by the exchange of a $Z$ boson. This is typically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-26 Martin Hoferichter , Javier Menéndez , Achim Schwenk

The neutral current elastic scattering of neutrinos on Carbon and $CH_2$ targets is computed using the relativistic distorted-wave impulse approximation with relativistic optical potential. Results for exclusive and inclusive neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-08 A. V. Butkevich , D. Perevalov

Neutrino scattering data and the standard calculations of the cross section show a discrepancy in the low-Q^2 (four-momentum transfer squared) region. The calculations rely on the assumption, called the impulse approximation, that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-14 Artur M. Ankowski

Superscaling analyses of few-GeV inclusive electron scattering from nuclei are extended to include not only quasielastic processes, but now also into the region where $\Delta$-excitation dominates. It is shown that, with reasonable…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. E. Amaro , M. B. Barbaro , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly , A. Molinari , I. Sick

The quasi-elastic scattering of muon neutrino and electrons on a carbon target are analyzed using the relativistic distorted-wave impulse approximation (RDWIA). We also evaluate the contribution of the two-particle and two-hole meson…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-25 A. V. Butkevich , S. V. Luchuk