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We analyze charged-current electron-neutrino cross sections on Carbon. We consider two different theoretical approaches, on one hand the Continuum Random Phase Approximation (CRPA) which allows a description of giant resonances and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-29 M. Martini , N. Jachowicz , M. Ericson , V. Pandey , T. Van Cuyck , N. Van Dessel

A relativistic distorted-wave impulse-approximation model is applied to quasi-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. The bound state is obtained in the framework of the relativistic mean field theory and the final state interaction is taken…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrea Meucci , Carlotta Giusti , Franco Davide Pacati

Background: Nuclear effects can have a significant impact on neutrino-nucleus interactions. In particular, data from neutrino experiments with broad energy distributions require complex theoretical models that are able to take all the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 O. Lalakulich , K. Gallmeister , U. Mosel

We review Quasielastic (QE) inclusive and semi--inclusive neutrino/antineutrino Charged Current (CC) and Neutral Current (NC) induced nuclear reactions at intermediate energies. We pay special attention to nuclear corrections besides Pauli…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 J. Nieves , M. J. Vicente-Vacas , J. E. Amaro , M. Valverde , E. Hernandez

Current long baseline experiments aim at measuring neutrino oscillation parameters with a high precision. A critical quantity is the neutrino energy which can not be measured directly but has to be reconstructed from the observed hadrons. A…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-03 T. Leitner , O. Buss , U. Mosel , L. Alvarez-Ruso

We present a theory of neutrino interactions with nuclei aimed at the description of the partial cross-sections, namely quasi-elastic and multi-nucleon emission, coherent and incoherent single pion production. For this purpose, we use the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-21 M. Martini , M. Ericson , G. Chanfray , J. Marteau

We report the results of a study of neutrino-carbon interactions at beam energies ranging between few hundreds MeV and few tens of GeV, carried out within the framework of the impulse approximation using a realistic spectral function. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-12 Erica Vagnoni , Omar Benhar , Davide Meloni

We investigate neutrino-nucleus interactions at energies around 1 GeV. In this regime, the main contributions to the cross sections come from quasi-elastic and $\Delta$ production processes. Our formalism, based on the Impulse Approximation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Omar Benhar , Davide Meloni

[Background] Meticulous modeling of neutrino-nucleus interactions is essential to achieve the unprecedented precision goals of present and future accelerator-based neutrino-oscillation experiments. [Purpose] Confront our calculations of…

We have developed a model to describe the interactions of neutrinos with nucleons and nuclei via charged and neutral currents, focusing on the region of the quasielastic and Delta(1232) peaks. For neutrino nucleon collisions a fully…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Leitner , L. Alvarez-Ruso , U. Mosel

We report on a calculation of cross sections for charged-current quasielastic antineutrino scattering off $^{12}$C in the energy range of interest for the MiniBooNE experiment. We adopt the impulse approximation (IA) and use the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-02-12 V. Pandey , N. Jachowicz , J. Ryckebusch , T. Van Cuyck , W. Cosyn

The advent of very high intensity neutrino beams for the study of neutrino oscillations has also made possible a new generation of experiments which will study neutrino interactions on different nuclei with unprecedented precision. The use…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-11-15 Ronald D. Ransome

The reconstruction of the neutrino energy is crucial in oscillation experiments that use interactions with nuclei to detect the neutrino. The common reconstruction procedure is based on the kinematics of the final-state lepton. The…

The neutrino experiments utilize heavy nuclear targets to achieve high statistics neutrino-nucleus interaction event rate, which leads to systematic uncertainties in the oscillation parameters due to the nuclear effects and uncertainties in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-07 R Lalnuntluanga , R K Pradhan , A Giri

We address the issue of nuclear attenuation in nucleon and pion knockout reactions. A selection of results from a model based on a relativistic multiple-scattering approximation is presented. We show transparency calculations for pion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-07 Wim Cosyn , Jan Ryckebusch

Accurate neutrino-nucleus interaction modeling is an essential requirement for the success of the accelerator-based neutrino program. As no satisfactory description of cross sections exists, experiments tune neutrino-nucleus interactions to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Nina M. Coyle , Shirley Weishi Li , Pedro A. N. Machado

The MINER$\nu$A experiment investigates neutrino interactions with nucleons needed for an understanding of electroweak interactions of hadrons. Since nuclear targets are being used many-body effects may affect the extracted cross sections…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-13 U. Mosel , O. Lalakulich , K. Gallmeister

Inclusive neutrino-nucleus cross sections are calculated using a consistent relativistic mean-field theoretical framework. The weak lepton-hadron interaction is expressed in the standard current-current form, the nuclear ground state is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-02-26 N. Paar , D. Vretenar , T. Marketin , P. Ring