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We report the results of a theoretical study of quasielastic electron and neutrino interactions with carbon. Our approach takes into account the effects of final-state interactions between the struck nucleon and the residual nucleus,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-18 Artur M. Ankowski , Omar Benhar , Makoto Sakuda

New and more precise measurements of neutrino cross sections have renewed the interest in a better understanding of electroweak interactions on nucleons and nuclei. This effort is crucial to achieve the precision goals of the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 L. Alvarez-Ruso , Y. Hayato , J. Nieves

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 use of quasi-elastic electron nucleus scattering is shown to provide significant constraints on models of the proton electromagnetic form factor of off-shell nucleons. Such models can be constructed to be consistent with constraints…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Gerald A. Miller , Anthony W. Thomas , Jonathan D. Carroll

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

A model based on the relativistic impulse approximation for quasielastic lepton-nucleus scattering is presented. The effects of the final-state interactions (FSI) between the emitted nucleon and the residual nucleus are described by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-09-18 Carlotta Giusti , Andrea Meucci

We investigate the degree to which the scaling functions $F(\psi')$ derived from cross sections for inclusive electron-nucleus quasi-elastic scattering define the same function for different nuclei. In the region where the scaling variable…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 TW Donnelly , Ingo Sick

A substantial fraction of systematic uncertainties in neutrino oscillation experiments stem from the lack of precision in modeling the nuclear target in neutrino-nucleus interactions. Whilst this has driven significant progress in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-15 J. Chakrani , S. Dolan , M. Buizza Avanzini , A. Ershova , L. Koch , K. McFarland , G. D. Megias , L. Munteanu , L. Pickering , K. Skwarczynski , V. Q. Nguyen , C. Wret

We show a relationship between elastic electron scattering observables and the elastic neutrino cross section that provides a straightforward determination of the latter from experimental data of the former and relates their uncertainties.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-11-25 O. Moreno , T. W. Donnelly

Isoscalar and isovector effective masses of the nucleon in nuclear medium are explored in the quasi-elastic electron scattering of nuclei with KIDS (Korea-IBS-Daegu-SKKU) density functional model. Effective masses are varied in the range…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Hana Gil , Chang Ho Hyun , Kyungsik Kim

We apply to the nucleon-nucleus inelastic process a fully coherent microscopic multiple scattering approach. Our study addresses the complexities inherent in characterizing inelastic scattering events, offering a comprehensive theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-30 Matteo Vorabbi , Michael Gennari , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti , Petr Navrátil

We review some recent progress in the study of electroweak interactions in nuclei within the SuSAv2-MEC model. The model has the capability to predict (anti)neutrino scattering observables on different nuclei. The theoretical predictions…

Spectral functions do not fully describe quasielastic electron and neutrino scattering from nuclei because they only model the initial state. Final state interactions distort the shape of the differential cross section at the peak and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-02 A. Bodek , M. E. Christy , B. Coopersmith

Nucleon-nucleon scattering is studied to next-to-leading order in a partially-quenched extension of an effective field theory used to describe multi-nucleon systems in QCD. The partially-quenched nucleon-nucleon amplitudes will play an…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Silas R. Beane , Martin J. Savage

We construct a model for inelastic neutrino- and electron-nucleon scattering cross sections using effective leading order parton distribution functions with a new scaling variable $\xi_w$. Non-perturbative effects are well described using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-26 Arie Bodek , Un-Ki Yang

It is shown that experimental values of the cross sections of inelastic low-energy neutron scattering on even-even nuclei together with the description of these cross sections in the framework of the coupled channel optical model may be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-12 D. A. Zaikin , I. V. Surkova

Background: Inelastic neutrino-nucleus scattering through the weak neutral-current plays important role in stellar environment where transport of neutrinos determine the rate of cooling. Since there are no direct experimental data on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Djapo , N. Paar

Neutrino-nucleus scattering $\nu A\to \nu A$, in which the nucleus conserves its integrity, is considered. We show that elastic interactions keeping the nucleus in the same quantum state lead to a quadratic enhancement of the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Vadim A. Bednyakov , Dmitry V. Naumov

We review the theoretical status of the models including the multinucleon emission channel in the calculation of quasielastic neutrino cross sections at MiniBooNE kinematics.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-27 M. Martini

We construct a model for inelastic neutrino- and electron-nucleon scattering cross sections using effective leading order parton distribution functions with a new scaling variable $\xi_w$. Non-perturbative effects are well described using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-21 Arie Bodek , Un-ki Yang