Model-independent determination of the axial mass parameter in quasielastic antineutrino-nucleon scattering

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العنوان: Model-independent determination of the axial mass parameter in quasielastic antineutrino-nucleon scattering
المؤلفون: Bhattacharya, Bhubanjyoti, Paz, Gil, Tropiano, Anthony J.
المصدر: Phys. Rev. D 92, 113011 (2015)
سنة النشر: 2015
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
مصطلحات موضوعية: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
الوصف: Understanding the charged current quasielestic (CCQE) neutrino-nucleus interaction is important for precision studies of neutrino oscillations. The theoretical description of the interaction depends on the combination of a nuclear model with the knowledge of form factors. While the former has received considerable attention, the latter, in particular the axial form factor, is implemented using the historical dipole model. Instead, we use a model-independent approach, presented in a previous study, to analyze the muon antineutrino CCQE mineral oil data published by the MiniBooNE collaboration. We combine the cross section for scattering of antineutrinos off protons in carbon and hydrogen, using the same axial form factor for both. The extracted value of the axial mass parameter $m_A = 0.84^{+0.12}_{-0.04} \pm {0.11} \, {\rm GeV}$ is in very good agreement with the model-independent value extracted from MiniBooNE's neutrino data. Going beyond a one-parameter description of the axial form factor, we extract values of the axial form factor in the range of $Q^2=0.1...1.0$ GeV$^2$, finding a very good agreement with the analogous extraction from the neutrino data. We discuss the implications of these results.
Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.113011
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05652
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1510.05652
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.113011