Superscaling in charged current neutrino quasielastic scattering in the relativistic impulse approximation

Abstract

Superscaling of the quasielastic cross section in charged-current neutrino-nucleus reactions at energies of a few GeV is investigated within the framework of the relativistic impulse approximation. Several approaches are used to describe final-state interactions and comparisons are made with the plane-wave approximation. Superscaling is very successful in all cases. The scaling function obtained using a relativistic mean field for the final states shows an asymmetric shape with a long tail extending towards positive values of the scaling variable, in excellent agreement with the behavior presented by the experimental scaling function.