AMARO SORIANO , José Enrique

We evaluate quasielastic double-differential antineutrino cross sections obtained in a phenomenological model based on the superscaling behavior of electron scattering data and estimate the contribution of the vector meson-exchange currents in the two-particle–two-hole sector. We show that the impact of meson-exchange currents for...

An analysis of the effects of meson exchange and isobar currents in exclusive (e,e′p) processes from 16O under quasifree kinematics is presented. A model that has probed its feasibility for inclusive quasielastic (e,e′) processes is considered. Sensitivity to final state interactions between the outgoing proton and the residual nucleus is...

A study of the effects of meson-exchange currents and isobar configurations in A(e,e'p)B reactions is presented. We use a distorted wave impulse approximation model where final-state interactions are treated through a phenomenological optical potential. The model includes relativistic corrections in the kinematics and...

Nucleon recoil polarization observables in (e,e'p) reactions are investigated using a semirelativistic distorted-wave model which includes one- and two-body currents with relativistic corrections. Results for the induced polarization asymmetry are shown for closed-shell nuclei and a comparison with available experimental data for 12c...

Electron-induced one-nucleon knockout observables are computed for a moderate to high momentum transfer, making use of semirelativistic expressions for the one-body and two-body meson-exchange current matrix elements. Emphasis is laid on the semirelativistic form of the D-isobar exchange current and several prescriptions for the...

The so-called semirelativistic expansion of the weakly charged current in powers of the initial nucleon momentum is performed to describe charge-changing, quasielastic neutrino reactions (νμ,μ−) at intermediate energies. The quality of the expansion is tested by comparing it with the relativistic Fermi gas model using several...

We study the role of the Δ-isobar current on the response functions for high energy inclusive quasielastic electron scattering from nuclei. We consider a general Lagrangian which is compatible with contact invariance and perform a fully relativistic calculation in first-order perturbation theory for one-particle emission. The dependence of the...

A new non-relativistic expansion in terms of the nucleon's momentum inside nuclear matter of the current for isobar electro-excitation from the nucleon is perfo rmed. Being exact with respect to the transferred energy and momentum, this yields new current operators which retain important aspects of relativity not taken into account in the...

Two-particle two-hole contributions to electromagnetic response functions are computed in a fully relativistic Fermi gas model. All one-pion exchange diagrams that contribute to the scattering amplitude in perturbation theory are considered, including terms for pionic correlations and meson-exchange currents (MECs). The pionic correlation terms...

The impact of Hartree-Fock correlations on the nuclear momentum distribution is studied in a fully relativistic one-boson-exchange model. Hartree-Fock equations are exactly solved to first order in the coupling constants. The renormalization of the Dirac spinors in the medium is shown to affect the momentum distribution, as opposed to what...

The semi-relativistic approach to electron and neutrino quasielastic scattering from nuclei is extended to include final-state interactions. Starting with the usual nonrelativistic continuum shell model, the problem is relativized by using the semi-relativistic expansion of the current in powers of the initial nucleon momentum and relativistic...

The role of isospin in quasielastic electron scattering and charge-changing neutrino reactions is investigated in the relativistic impulse approximation. We analyze proton and neutron scaling functions making use of various theoretical descriptions for the final-state interactions, focusing on the effects introduced by the presence of strong...

Two relativistic approaches to charged-current quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering are illustrated and compared: one is phenomenological and based on the superscaling behavior of electron scattering data and the other relies on the microscopic description of nuclear dynamics in relativistic mean field theory. The role of meson exchange...

Two relativistic approaches are considered to evaluate the quasielastic double-differential and integrated neutrino-nucleus cross sections. One, based on the relativistic impulse approximation, relies on the microscopic description of nuclear dynamics using relativistic mean field theory, and incorporates a description of the final-state...

We evaluate the quasielastic double differential neutrino cross sections obtained in a phenomenological model based on the superscaling behavior of electron scattering data. We compare our results with the recent experimental data for neutrinos of MiniBooNE and estimate the contribution of the vector meson-exchange currents in the 2p-2h sector.

Predictions for electron induced proton knockout from p1/2 and p3/2 shells in 16O are presented using various approximations for the relativistic nucleonic current. Results for differential cross section, transverse-longitudinal response ( RTL), and left-right asymmetry ATL are compared at |Q2|=0.8(GeV/c)2. We show that there are important...

We compare the predictions of the SuperScaling model for charged-current quasielastic muonic neutrino and antineutrino scattering from 12C with experimental data spanning an energy range up to 100 GeV. We discuss the sensitivity of the results to different parametrizations of the nucleon vector and axial-vector form factors. Finally, we show...

Superscaling analyses of few-GeV inclusive electron scattering from nuclei are extended to include not only quasielastic processes, but also the region where excitation dominates. With reasonable assumptions about the basic nuclear scaling function extracted from data and information from other studies of the relative roles played by...

We present our recent progress on the relativistic modeling of electron-nucleus reactions and compare our predictions with inclusive 12C (e, e′) experimental data in a wide kinematical region. The model, originally based on the superscaling phenomenon shown by electron-nucleus scattering data, has recently been improved through the inclusion of...

Superscaling of the quasielastic cross section in charged-current neutrino-nucleus reactions at energies of a few GeV is investigated within the framework of the relativistic impulse approximation. Several approaches are used to describe final-state interactions and comparisons are made with the plane-wave approximation. Superscaling is very...

The effects of meson-exchange currents (MEC) are computed for the one-particle one-hole transverse response function for finite nuclei at high momentum transfers q in the region of the quasi-elastic peak. A semirelativistic shell model is used for the one-particle-emission (e,e') reaction. Relativistic effects are included using relativistic...

The present study focuses on the superscaling behavior of electron-nucleus cross sections in the region lying above the quasielastic peak, especially the region dominated by electroexcitation of the Δ. Non-quasielastic cross sections are obtained from all available high-quality data for 12C by subtracting effective quasielastic cross sections...

The angular distribution of the phase space arising in two-particle emission reactions induced by electrons and neutrinos is computed in the laboratory (Lab) system by boosting the isotropic distribution in the center of mass (CM) system used in Monte Carlo generators. The Lab distribution has a singularity for some angular values, coming from...

Two-particle two-hole contributions to electroweak response functions are computed in a fully relativistic Fermi gas, assuming that the electroweak current matrix elements are independent of the kinematics. We analyze the genuine kinematical and relativistic effects before including a realistic meson-exchange current operator. This allows one...

We develop a model of relativistic, charged meson-exchange currents (MEC) for neutrino-nucleus interactions. The two-body current is the sum of seagull, pion-in-flight, pion-pole and Δ-pole operators. These operators are obtained from the weak pion-production amplitudes for the nucleon derived in the nonlinear σ-model together with weak...