Nuclear medium effects in neutrino- and antineutrino-nucleus scattering

In this paper we study the influence of nuclear medium effects on quasi-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering processes. We focus on effects provided by the nuclear mean field and random phase correlations and pay special attention to differences between neutrino- and antineutrino-induced reactions. We confront our results with the T2K and MiniBooNE data for both neutrinos and antineutrinos and the neutrino-antineutrino asymmetry. In view of the recently published ab initio results we provide a careful comparison between our cross section predictions and the ab-initio calculations.

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This paper examines the impact of nuclear medium effects on quasi-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering processes, focusing on the contributions of the nuclear mean field and random phase correlations, with special attention to differences between neutrino- and antineutrino-induced reactions. Results are compared with T2K and MiniBooNE data for both neutrinos and antineutrinos, as well as the neutrino-antineutrino asymmetry, and carefully compared with ab-initio calculations in light of recent publications.