Relativistic analyses of quasielastic neutrino cross sections at MiniBooNE kinematics

J. E. Amaro, M. B. Barbaro, J. A. Caballero, T. W. Donnelly, J. M. Udías
2011 Physical Review D  
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 interactions. The second is based on the superscaling behavior exhibited by electron scattering data and its applicability, due to the universal character of
more » ... e scaling function, to the analysis of neutrino scattering reactions. The role played by the vector meson-exchange currents in the two-particle two-hole sector is also incorporated and the results obtained are compared with the recent data for neutrinos measured by the MiniBooNE Collaboration.
doi:10.1103/physrevd.84.033004 fatcat:5y2vqceodndkbgf5nb4pyupsgu