BARBARO , M. B.

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...

The results of two relativistic models with different descriptions of the final-state interactions are compared with the MiniBooNE data of charged-current quasielastic cross sections. The relativistic mean field model uses the same potential for the bound and ejected nucleon wave functions. In the relativistic Green's function model, the...

We evaluate the neutral current quasi-elastic neutrino cross section within two nuclear models: the SuSA model, based on the superscaling behavior of electron scattering data, and the RMF model, based on relativistic mean field theory. We also estimate the ratio (νp→νp)/(νN→νN) and compare with the MiniBooNE experimental data, performing a fit...

A joint fit to neutrino-nucleon scattering and pion electroproduction data is performed to evaluate the nucleon axial form factor in the two-component model consisting of a three-quark intrinsic structure surrounded by a meson cloud. Further constraints on the model are obtained by re-evaluating the electromagnetic form factor using electron...

Highly inelastic electron scattering is analyzed within the context of the unified relativistic approach previously considered in the case of quasielastic kinematics. Inelastic relativistic Fermi gas modeling that includes the complete inelastic spectrum—resonant, nonresonant, and deep inelastic scattering—is elaborated and compared with...

Scaling studies of inclusive quasielastic electron scattering reactions have been used in the past as a basic tool to obtain information on the nucleon momentum distribution in nuclei. However, the connection between the scaling function, extracted from the analysis of cross-section data, and the spectral function only exists assuming very...

We compare the results of the SuSAv2 model including meson-exchange currents (MEC) with the recent measurement of the quasielasticlike double differential antineutrino cross section on a hydrocarbon performed by the MINERvA Collaboration [C. E. Patrick (MINERvA Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 97, 052002 (2018)10.1103/PhysRevD.97.052002]. The...

The superscaling approach is applied to studies of neutral current neutrino reactions in the quasielastic regime. Using input from scaling analyses of electron scattering data, predictions for high-energy neutrino and antineutrino cross sections are given and compared with results obtained using the relativistic Fermi gas model. The influence...

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 extend our previous description of the superscaling phenomenon in inclusive electron scattering within the coherent density fluctuation model (CDFM). This model is a natural extension to finite nuclei of the relativistic Fermi gas (RFG) model within which the scaling variable ψ' was introduced. In this work we propose a new modified CDFM...

The relativistic mean field (RMF) model is used to describe nucleons in the nucleus and thereby to evaluate the effects of having dynamically off-shell spinors. Compared with free, on-shell nucleons as employed in some other models, within the RMF nucleons are described by relativistic spinors with strongly enhanced lower components. In this...

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 susperscaling model SuSAv2, already available for charged-current neutrino-nucleus cross sections in the quasielastic region, is extended to the full inelastic regime. In the model the resonance production and deep inelastic reactions are described through the extension to the neutrino sector of the SuSAv2 inelastic model developed for (e,...

The susperscaling model SuSAv2, already available for charged-current neutrino-nucleus cross sections in the quasielastic region, is extended to the full inelastic regime. In the model the resonance production and deep inelastic reactions are described through the extension to the neutrino sector of the SuSAv2 inelastic model developed for (e,...

Neutrino-nucleus quasielastic scattering is studied in the plane-wave impulse approximation for three nuclear models: the relativistic Fermi gas (RFG), the independent-particle shell model (IPSM), and the natural orbitals (NO) model with Lorentzian dependence of the excitation energy. A complete study of the kinematics of the semi-inclusive...

The superscaling analysis is extended to include quasielastic (QE) scattering via the weak neutral current (NC) of neutrinos and antineutrinos from nuclei. The scaling function obtained within the coherent density fluctuation model (CDFM) [used previously in calculations of QE inclusive electron and charge-changing (CC) neutrino scattering] is...

Superscaling approximation (SuSA) predictions to neutrino-induced charged-current charged pion production in the δ-resonance region are explored under MiniBooNE experimental conditions. The results obtained within SuSA for the flux-averaged double-differential cross sections of the π + production for the ν μ+CH 2 reaction as a function of the...

We evaluate semi-inclusive neutral-current quasielastic differential neutrino and antineutrino cross sections within the framework of the relativistic impulse approximation. The results of the relativistic mean-field and of the relativistic Green's function models are compared. The sensitivity to the strange-quark content of the nucleon form...