학술논문

Superscaling Predictions for Neutral Current Quasielastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Phys.Rev.Lett.100:052502,2008
Subject
Nuclear Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Language
Abstract
The application of superscaling ideas to predict neutral-current (NC) quasielastic (QE) neutrino cross sections is investigated. Results obtained within the relativistic impulse approximation (RIA) using the same relativistic mean field potential (RMF) for both initial and final nucleons -- a model that reproduces the experimental (e,e') scaling function -- are used to illustrate the ideas involved. While NC reactions are not so well suited for scaling analyses, to a large extent the RIA-RMF predictions do exhibit superscaling. Independence of the scaled response on the nuclear species is very well fulfilled. The RIA-RMF NC superscaling function is in good agreement with the experimental (e,e') one. The idea that electroweak processes can be described with a universal scaling function, provided that mild restrictions on the kinematics are assumed, is shown to be valid.
Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, published in PRL