Direct extraction of nuclear effects in quasielastic scattering on carbon

Autor: Wilkinson, Callum, McFarland, Kevin S.
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. D 94, 013013 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.013013
Popis: Nuclear effects on neutrino reactions are expected to be a significant complication in current and future neutrino oscillation experiments seeking precision measurements of neutrino flavor transitions. Calculations of these nuclear effects are hampered by a lack of experimental data comparing neutrino reactions on free nucleons to neutrino reactions on nuclei. We present results from a novel technique that compares neutrino and antineutrino charged current quasielastic scattering on hydrocarbons to extract a cross section ratio of antineutrino charged current elastic reactions on free protons to charged current quasielastic reactions on the protons bound in a carbon nucleus. This measurement of nuclear effects is compared to models.
Databáze: arXiv