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We report on an update (2021) of a phenomenological model for inelastic neutrino- and electron-nucleon scattering cross sections using effective leading order parton distribution functions with a new scaling variable $\xi_w$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-04 Arie Bodek , Un-ki Yang. , Yang Xu

With the aim at quantitatively investigating the longstanding problem concerning the effect of short range nucleon-nucleon correlations on scattering processes at high energies, the total neutron-nucleus cross section is calculated within a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Alvioli , C. Ciofi degli Atti , I. Marchino , V. Palli , H. Morita

We calculate shadowing in the process of deep inelastic interactions of leptons with nuclei in the perturbative regime of QCD. We find appreciable shadowing for heavy nuclei (e.g. Pb) in the region of small Bjorken scaling variable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrzej Bialas , Wieslaw Czyz , Wojciech Florkowski

We discuss nuclear effects on neutrino-nuclear interactions in a wide kinematical range from shallow to deep inelastic scattering (DIS) region. There is necessity from neutrino communities to have precise neutrino-nucleus cross sections for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Kumano

The treatment of nuclear effects in neutrino-nucleus interactions is one of the main sources of systematic uncertainty for the analysis and interpretation of data of neutrino oscillation experiments. Neutrinos interact with nuclei via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Carlotta Giusti , Martin V. Ivanov

Scaling studies of inclusive quasielastic electron scattering reactions have been used in the past as a basic tool to obtain information on the nucleon momentum distribution in nuclei. However, the connection between the scaling function,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 J. A. Caballero , M. B. Barbaro , A. N. Antonov , M. V. Ivanov , T. W. Donnelly

Large liquid xenon detectors aiming for dark matter direct detection will soon become viable tools also for investigating neutrino physics. Information on the effects of nuclear structure in neutrino-nucleus scattering can be important in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-25 Pekka Pirinen , Jouni Suhonen , Emanuel Ydrefors

We address novel features of deep inelastic lepton scattering on nuclei at small Bjorken variable $x_{Bj}$. In this regime the lepton-nuclear cross section involves the interference between the standard lepton-quark scattering amplitude for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-07 Stanley J. Brodsky , Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Ivan Schmidt

A precise description of neutrino-nucleus reactions will play a key role in addressing fundamental questions such as the leptonic CP violation and the neutrino mass hierarchy through analyzing data from next-generation neutrino oscillation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-12 S. X. Nakamura , H. Kamano , Y. Hayato , M. Hirai , W. Horiuchi , S. Kumano , T. Murata , K. Saito , M. Sakuda , T. Sato , Y. Suzuki

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

We present a covariant extension of the relativistic Fermi gas model which incorporates correlation effects in nuclei. Within this model, inspired by the BCS descriptions of systems of fermions, we obtain the nuclear spectral function and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-01-22 M. B. Barbaro , R. Cenni , T. W. Donnelly , A. Molinari

Contrary to widespread opinion, color transparency (CT) brings essential ambiguity to, rather than helps in, study of the nuclear spectral function in quasielastic lepton scattering, $A(l,l'p)A'$, at high $Q^2$. Although the nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Kopeliovich

An extended study of scaling of the first and second kinds for inclusive electron scattering from nuclei is presented. Emphasis is placed on the transverse response in the kinematic region lying above the quasielastic peak. In particular,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Maieron , T. W. Donnelly , I. Sick

We present a model for neutrino-nucleus scattering in the energy region relevant for present and forthcoming neutrino-oscillation experiments. The model is based on the RPA treatment of the nuclear responses in the quasi-elastic and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-16 M. Martini , G. Chanfray , M. Ericson , J. Marteau

We present an improved method for handling off-shell effects in deep inelastic nuclear scattering. With a firm understanding of the effects of the nuclear wave function, including these off-shell corrections as well as binding and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 C. D. Cothran , D. B. Day , S. Liuti

The quantitative description of the effects of nuclear dynamics on the measured neutrino-nucleus cross sections -- needed to reduce the systematic uncertainty of long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments -- involves severe…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-08-19 Omar Benhar , Noemi Rocco

Nuclear structure functions and cross-sections for heavy flavour production in lepton-nucleus collisions are investigated in the low $x$ region accessible now or in the near future. The scattering on a heavy nucleus is described by the sum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 N. Armesto , M. A. Braun

We present a calculation of nuclear matter which goes beyond the usual quasi-particle approximation in that it includes part of the off-shell dependence of the self-energy in the self-consistent solution of the single-particle spectrum. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 F. de Jong , H. Lenske

We present a detailed study of charged-current quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and of the influence of correlations on one- and two-nucleon knockout processes. The quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections, including…