Tuesday, May 22, 2012

1205.4337 (G. Shen et al.)

Inclusive neutrino scattering off deuteron from threshold to GeV
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G. Shen, L. E. Marcucci, J. Carlson, S. Gandolfi, R. Schiavilla
Cross sections for inclusive neutrino scattering off deuteron induced by neutral and charge-changing weak currents are calculated from threshold up to GeV energies, using the Argonne $v_{18}$ potential and consistent nuclear electroweak currents with one- and two-body terms. Two-body contributions are found to be small, and increase the cross sections obtained with one-body currents by less than 10% over the whole range of energies. Total cross sections obtained by describing the final two-nucleon states with plane waves differ negligibly, for neutrino energies $\gtrsim 500$ MeV, from those in which interaction effects in these states are fully accounted for. The sensitivity of the calculated cross sections to different models for the two-nucleon potential and/or two-body terms in the weak current is found to be weak. In order to illustrate nuclear structure effects, the cross sections are compared to those obtained in a naive model in which the deuteron is taken to consist of a free proton and neutron at rest.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4337

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