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The electroweak response functions for inclusive electron scattering are calculated in the Relativistic Fermi Gas model, both in the quasi-elastic and in the $\Delta$ peak regions. The impact of relativistic kinematics at high momentum…

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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

One-nucleon emission processes induced by photon absorption are studied by considering short-range correlations effects. At energies above the giant resonance region the validity of the direct knock-out model has been tested by comparison…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Anguiano , G. Co' , A. M. Lallena , S. R. Mokhtar

Two relativistic approaches to charged-current quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering are illustrated and compared: one is phenomenological and based on the superscaling behavior of electron scattering data and the other relies on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 M. B. Barbaro , J. E. Amaro , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly , J. M. Udias

We reanalyze the scaling properties of inclusive quasielastic electron scattering from $^{12}$C by subtracting from the data the effects of two-particle emission. A model of relativistic meson-exchange currents (MEC) is employed within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 V. L. Martinez-Consentino , I. Ruiz Simo , J. E. Amaro

An analysis of the effects of meson exchange and isobar currents in exclusive (e,e'p) processes from O-16 under quasi-free kinematics is presented. A model that has probed its feasibility for inclusive quasi-elastic (e,e') processes is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. E. Amaro , A. M. Lallena , J. A. Caballero

We present a charged-current quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering model based on an unfactorized representation of the spectral function, employing relativistic momentum distributions for bound nucleons and the relativistic…

The quasielastic cross-section of charged-current neutrino and antineutrino scattering on $^{12}$C is calculated using an improved superscaling model with relativistic effective mass. Our model encompasses two-particle emission induced by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-21 V. L. Martinez-Consentino , J. E. Amaro

The scattering of electrons on carbon, calcium, and argon targets are analyzed using an approach that incorporates the contributions to the electromagnetic response functions from the quasielastic (QE), inelastic processes, and two-particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-22 A. V. Butkevich , S. V. Luchuk

Following recent studies of non-relativistic reductions of the single-nucleon electromagnetic current operator, here we extend the treatment to include meson exchange current operators. We focus on one-particle emission electronuclear…

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

The effects of nuclear re-interactions in the quasi-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering are investigated with a phenomenological model. We found that the nuclear responses are lowered and their maxima are shifted towards higher excitation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-23 C. Bleve , G. Co` , I. De Mitri , P. Bernardini , G. Mancarella , D. Martello , A. Surdo

We analyze the role of meson exchange currents (MEC) in photon- and electron-induced one nucleon emission reactions in a fully relativistic model. The relativistic mean field theory is used for the bound state and the Pauli reduction for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrea Meucci , Carlotta Giusti , Franco Davide Pacati

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

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 assess the impact of two-particle--two-hole excitations on the semi-inclusive electron scattering process (e,e'p) using a fully relativistic nuclear model calculation that precisely incorporates antisymmetrization. The calculation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-14 Valerio Belocchi , Maria Benedetta Barbaro , Arturo De Pace , Marco Martini

The quasi-elastic contribution of the nuclear inclusive electron scattering model developed in A. Gil, J. Nieves, and E. Oset: Nucl. Phys. A 627 (1997) 543; is extended to the study of electroweak Charged Current (CC) induced nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Valverde , J. Nieves , J. E. Amaro

The Quasi-Elastic (QE) contribution of the nuclear inclusive electron scattering model developed in Nucl. Phys. A627 (1997) 543 is extended to the study of electroweak Charged Current (CC) induced nuclear reactions, at intermediate energies…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 J. Nieves , J. E. Amaro , M. Valverde

We use a relativistic model of meson-exchange currents to compute the proton-neutron and proton-proton yields in $(e,e')$ scattering from $^{12}$C in the 2p-2h channel. We compute the response functions and cross section with the…

Meson-exchange currents (MEC) play a crucial role in the nuclear response to a leptonic probe, inducing the emission of two nucleons, the so-called 2p2h excitations. Here we report the results of our recent work \cite{Belocchi:2025eix}, in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-18 M. B. Barbaro , V. Belocchi , A. De Pace , M. Martini

The response functions for the unpolarized $(e,e'p)$ and polarized $(\vec{e},e'p)$ reaction are calculated for medium-heavy nuclei under quasifree conditions. The formalism presented here incorporates two-body currents related to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Van der Sluys , J. Ryckebusch , M. Waroquier