Artículo
Estimate of the theoretical uncertainty of the cross sections for nucleon knockout in neutral-current neutrino-oxygen interactions
Autor/es | Ankowski, Artur M.
Barbaro, M. B. Benhar, Omar Caballero Carretero, Juan Antonio Giusti, Carlotta González Jiménez, Raúl Megías Vázquez, Guillermo Daniel Meucci, Andrea |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear |
Fecha de publicación | 2015 |
Fecha de depósito | 2017-04-03 |
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Resumen | Free nucleons propagating in water are known to produce γ rays, which form a background to the searches for diffuse supernova neutrinos and sterile neutrinos carried out with Cherenkov detectors. As a consequence, the ... Free nucleons propagating in water are known to produce γ rays, which form a background to the searches for diffuse supernova neutrinos and sterile neutrinos carried out with Cherenkov detectors. As a consequence, the process of nucleon knockout induced by neutral-current quasielastic interactions of atmospheric (anti)neutrinos with oxygen needs to be under control at the quantitative level in the background simulations of ongoing and future experiments. In this paper, we provide a quantitative assessment of the uncertainty associated with the theoretical description of the nuclear cross sections, estimating it from the discrepancies between the predictions of different models. |
Agencias financiadoras | National Science Foundation (NSF). United States Junta de Andalucía |
Identificador del proyecto | PHY-1352106
FQM-7632 |
Cita | Ankowski, A.M., Barbaro, M.B., Benhar, O., Caballero Carretero, J.A., Giusti, C., González Jiménez, R.,...,Meucci, A. (2015). Estimate of the theoretical uncertainty of the cross sections for nucleon knockout in neutral-current neutrino-oxygen interactions. Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics, 92 (2), 025501. |
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