Neutral current neutrino-nucleus interactions at intermediate energies

Details Neutral current neutrino-nucleus interactions at intermediate energies Neutral current neutrino-nucleus interactions at intermediate energies

2006-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0606058v2

Phys.Rev.C74:065502,2006

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

16 pages, 10 figures; v2: version to be published in Phys. Rev. C, comparison with results of Paschos et al. removed

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.74.065502

We have extended our model for charged current neutrino-nucleus interactions to neutral current reactions. For the elementary neutrino-nucleon interaction, we take into account quasielastic scattering, Delta excitation and the excitation of the resonances in the second resonance region. Our model for the neutrino-nucleus collisions includes in-medium effects such as Fermi motion, Pauli blocking, nuclear binding, and final-state interactions. They are implemented by means of the Giessen Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (GiBUU) coupled-channel transport model. This allows us to study exclusive channels, namely pion production and nucleon knockout. We find that final-state interactions modify considerably the distributions through rescattering, charge-exchange and absorption. Side-feeding induced by charge-exchange scattering is important in both cases. In the case of pions, there is a strong absorption associated with the in-medium pionless decay modes of the Delta, while nucleon knockout exhibits a considerable enhancement of low energy nucleons due to rescattering. At neutrino energies above 1 GeV, we also obtain that the contribution to nucleon knockout from Delta excitation is comparable to that from quasielastic scattering.

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