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High-precision measurements in neutrino oscillation experiments require a very accurate description of the lepton-nucleus scattering process. Several cross-section calculations are available, but important discrepancies are still present…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-12 Valerio Belocchi , Maria Benedetta Barbaro , Arturo De Pace , Marco Martini

We develop a model of relativistic, charged meson-exchange currents (MEC) for neutrino-nucleus interactions. The two-body current is the sum of seagull, pion-in-flight, pion-pole and $\Delta$-pole operators. These operators are obtained…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 I. Ruiz Simo , J. E. Amaro , M. B. Barbaro , A. De Pace , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly

We developed a novel approach based on a generalization of factorization and nuclear spectral functions, allowing for a consistent treatment of the amplitudes involving one- and two-nucleon currents, whose contribution to the nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Noemi Rocco , Alessandro Lovato , Omar Benhar

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

We compare the results of the SuSAv2 model including meson-exchange currents (MEC) with the recent measurement of the quasielastic-like double differential antineutrino cross section on hydrocarbon (CH) performed by the MINERvA…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-30 G. D. Megias , M. B. Barbaro , J. A. Caballero , S. Dolan

We present our recent progress on the relativistic modeling of neutrino-nucleus reactions for their implementation in MonteCarlo event generators (GENIE, NEUT) employed in neutrino oscillation experiments. We compare charged-current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-06 G. D. Megias , S. Dolan , S. Bolognesi

CEBAF experiment e89-008 measured inclusive electron scattering from nuclei in a Q^2 range between 0.8 and 7.3 (GeV/c)^2 for x_{Bjorken} \gtorder 1. The cross sections for scattering from D, C, Fe, and Au were measured. The C, Fe, and Au…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 John R. Arrington

Understanding quasielastic electron- and neutrino-scattering from nuclei has taken on new urgency with current and planned neutrino oscillation experiments, and with electron scattering experiments measuring specific final states, such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-29 Saori Pastore , Joseph Carlson , Stefano Gandolfi , Rocco Schiavilla , Robert B. Wiringa

The superscaling approach is applied to studies of neutral current neutrino reactions in the quasielastic regime. Using input from scaling analyses of electron scattering data, predictions for high-energy neutrino and antineutrino cross…

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

We investigate quasielastic (anti)neutrino scattering on the $^{12}$C nucleus utilizing a novel scaling variable, $\psi^*$. This variable is derived from the interacting relativistic Fermi gas model, which incorporates both scalar and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-25 M. V. Ivanov , A. N. Antonov

High precision studies of Beyond-Standard-Model physics through accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments require a very accurate description of neutrino-nucleus cross sections in a broad energy region, going from quasielastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-04 Maria B. Barbaro , Arturo De Pace , Luisa Fiume

Quasielastic double differential neutrino cross sections can be obtained in a phenomenological model based on the superscaling behavior of electron scattering data. In this talk the superscaling approach (SuSA) is reviewed and its validity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 J. E. Amaro , M. B. Barbaro , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly

The E12-14-012 experiment performed at Jefferson Lab Hall A has collected inclusive electron-scattering data for different targets at the kinematics corresponding to beam energy 2.222 GeV and scattering angle 15.54 deg. Here we present a…

The semi-relativistic approach to electron and neutrino quasielastic scattering from nuclei is extended to include final-state interactions. Starting with the usual non-relativistic continuum shell model, the problem is relativized by using…

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

Inclusive electron scattering off 4He is investigated for low and medium energy and momentum transfers. The final state interaction, given by the simple semirealistic Malfliet-Tjon potential, is treated rigorously applying the Lorentz…

The superscaling analysis using the scaling function obtained within the coherent density fluctuation model is extended to calculate charge-changing neutrino and antineutrino scattering on $^{12}$C at energies from 1 to 2 GeV not only in…

We suggest that superscaling analyses of few-GeV inclusive electron scattering from nuclei, both in the quasielastic peak and in the region where the $\Delta$-excitation dominates, allow one to make reliable predictions for charge-changing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. B. Barbaro , J. E. Amaro , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly

We illustrate the connection between electron and neutrino scattering off nuclei and show how the former process can be used to constrain the description of the latter. After reviewing some of the nuclear models commonly used to study…

Two-particle two-hole contributions to electroweak response functions are computed in a fully relativistic Fermi gas, assuming that the electroweak current matrix elements are independent of the kinematics. We analyze the genuine…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-10 I. Ruiz Simo , C. Albertus , J. E. Amaro , M. B. Barbaro , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly

A calculation of the two-particle two-hole contribution to the semi-inclusive $(\nu_\mu,\mu^-N)$ cross section on carbon is performed in the framework of the relativistic Fermi gas model. The process is driven by meson-exchange currents…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-11 Valerio Belocchi , Maria Benedetta Barbaro , Arturo De Pace , Marco Martini