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PHYSICAL REVIEW C
Volume 86, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.86.035502
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- Department of Energy [DE-FG02-87ER40365]
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We study the incoherent neutrinoproduction of photons and pions with neutrino energy E-nu <= 0.5 GeV. These processes are relevant to the background analysis in neutrino-oscillation experiments [for example, MiniBooNE; A. A. Aquilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 032301 (2008)]. The calculations are carried out using a Lorentz-covariant effective field theory (EFT), which contains nucleons, pions, the Delta (1232) (Delta), isoscalar scalar (sigma) and vector (omega) fields, and isovector vector (rho) fields, and has SU(2)(L) circle times SU(2)(R) chiral symmetry realized nonlinearly. The contributions of one-body currents are studied in the local Fermi gas approximation. The current form factors are generated by meson dominance in the EFT Lagrangian. The conservation of the vector current and the partial conservation of the axial current are satisfied automatically, which is crucial for photon production. The Delta dynamics in nuclei, as a key component in the study, is explored. Introduced Delta-meson couplings explain the Delta spin-orbit coupling in nuclei, and this leads to interesting constraints on the theory. Meanwhile, a phenomenological approach is applied to parametrize the Delta width. To benchmark our approximations, we calculate the differential cross sections for quasielastic scattering and incoherent electroproduction of pions without a final-state interaction (FSI). The FSI can be ignored for photon production.
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