학술논문

Helicity asymmetries in neutrino-nucleus interactions
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Phys.Rev.C73:064605,2006
Subject
Nuclear Theory
Language
Abstract
We investigate the helicity properties of the ejectile in quasi-elastic neutrino-induced nucleon-knockout reactions and consider the 12C target as a test case. A formalism based on a relativistic mean-field model is adopted. The influence of final-state interactions is evaluated within a relativistic multiple-scattering Glauber approximation (RMSGA) model. Our calculations reveal that the helicity asymmetries A_l in A(\overline{\nu},\overline{\nu}'N) processes are extremely sensitive to strange-quark contributions to the weak vector form-factors. Thereby, nuclear corrections, such as final-state interactions and off-shell ambiguities in the electroweak current operators, are observed to be of marginal importance. This facilitates extracting strange-quark information from the helicity asymmetry A_l.
Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, 1 table submitted to PLB