Friday, February 3, 2012

1202.0227 (Artur M. Ankowski et al.)

Gamma-ray production in neutral-current neutrino-oxygen interactions at
energies above 200 MeV
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Artur M. Ankowski, Omar Benhar, Takaaki Mori, Ryuta Yamaguchi, Makoto Sakuda
We report the results of a calculation of the neutrino- and
antineutrino-induced gamma-ray production cross section for oxygen target. Our
analysis is focused on the kinematical region of neutrino energy larger than
~200MeV, in which single-nucleon knockout is known to be the dominant reaction
mechanism. The numerical results have been obtained using a realistic model of
the target spectral function, extensively tested against electron-nucleus
scattering data. We find that at neutrino energy 600 MeV the fraction of
neutral-current interactions leading to emission of gamma-rays of energy larger
than 6 MeV is ~41%, and that the contribution of the p_{3/2} state is
overwhelming.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0227

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