Artículo
Superscaling predictions for neutral current quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering
Autor/es | Martínez, M. C.
Caballero Carretero, Juan Antonio Donnelly, T. W. Udías, J. M. |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear |
Fecha de publicación | 2008-02-05 |
Fecha de depósito | 2017-07-19 |
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Resumen | The application of superscaling ideas to predict neutral-current (NC) quasielastic (QE) neutrino cross sections is investigated. The relativistic impulse approximation (RIA) using the same relativistic mean field potential ... The application of superscaling ideas to predict neutral-current (NC) quasielastic (QE) neutrino cross sections is investigated. The relativistic impulse approximation (RIA) using the same relativistic mean field potential (RMF) for both initial and final nucleons — a model that reproduces the experimental (e,e′) scaling function — is used to illustrate our findings. While NC reactions are apparently not well suited for scaling analyses, to a large extent, the RIA-RMF predictions do exhibit superscaling. Independence of the scaled response on the nuclear species is very well fulfilled. The RIA-RMF NC superscaling function is in good agreement with the experimental (e,e′) one. The idea that electroweak processes can be described with a universal scaling function, provided that mild restrictions on the kinematics are assumed, is shown to be valid. |
Identificador del proyecto | FIS2005-01105
FPA2006-07393 FPA2006-13807 FPA2007-62216 PR1/07-14895 DE-FG02-94ER40818 |
Cita | Martínez, M.C., Caballero Carretero, J.A., Donnelly, T.W. y Udias, J.M. (2008). Superscaling predictions for neutral current quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. Physical Review Letters, 100 (5), 052502-1-052502-4. |
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