Electron versus Muon Neutrino Induced Cross Sections in Charged Current Quasielastic Processes

Differences between nu(e) and nu(mu) quasielastic cross sections are essential in neutrino oscillation analyses and CP violation searches for experiments such as DUNE and T2HK. The ratio of these is however poorly known experimentally and for certain kinematic regions theoretical models give contrad...

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Autores: Nikolakopoulos, A., Jachowicz, N., Van Dessel, N., Niewczas, K., González Jiménez, Raúl, Udías Moinelo, José Manuel, Pandey, V.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/13810
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13810
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:539.1
Orthogonality
Física nuclear
2207 Física Atómica y Nuclear
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Sumario:Differences between nu(e) and nu(mu) quasielastic cross sections are essential in neutrino oscillation analyses and CP violation searches for experiments such as DUNE and T2HK. The ratio of these is however poorly known experimentally and for certain kinematic regions theoretical models give contradictory answers. We use two independent mean-field based models to investigate this ratio using Ar-40 and C-12 targets. We demonstrate that a proper treatment of the final nucleon's wave function confirms the dominance of nu(mu) over nu(e) induced cross sections at forward lepton scattering.