corner
corner
APS » Journals » Phys. Rev. Lett. » Volume 95 » Issue 25
< Previous Article | Next Article >

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 252502 (2005) [4 pages]

Superscaling in Charged Current Neutrino Quasielastic Scattering in the Relativistic Impulse Approximation

Download: PDF (227 kB) Buy this article Export: BibTeX or EndNote (RIS)

J. A. Caballero1, J. E. Amaro2, M. B. Barbaro3, T. W. Donnelly4, C. Maieron5, and J. M. Udias6
1Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Sevilla, 41080 Sevilla, Spain
2Departamento de Física Moderna, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
3Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Torino and INFN, Sezione di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, 10125 Torino, Italy
4Center for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
5INFN, Sezione di Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy
6Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Received 13 April 2005; published 15 December 2005

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 successful in all cases. The scaling function obtained using a relativistic mean field for the final states shows an asymmetric shape with a long tail extending towards positive values of the scaling variable, in excellent agreement with the behavior presented by the experimental scaling function.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.252502
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.252502
PACS:
25.30.Pt, 13.15.+g, 24.10.Jv
 
< Previous Article | Next Article >