Nuclear medium effects in muonic neutrino interactions with energies from 0.2 to 1.5 GeV

VARGAS D.; SAMANA A.R.; VELASCO F.G.; HOYOS O.R.; GUZMAN F.; BERNAL-CASTILLO J.L.; ANDRADE-II E.; PEREZ R.; A. DEPPMAN; C. BARBERO; A. MARIANO

PHYS. REV. - C

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Lugar: New York; Año: 2017 vol. 96 p. 546061 - 5460612

0556-2813

Nuclear reactions induced by muon neutrinos with energies from 0.2 to 1.5 GeV in theMonte Carlo calculation framework in the intranuclear cascade model are studied. This study was done by comparing the available experimental data and theoretical values of total cross section, and the energy distribution of emitted lepton energy in the reaction muon neutrino nucleus, using the targets 12C, 16O, 27Al, 40Ar, 56Fe, and 208Pb. A phenomenological model of primary neutrino-nucleon interaction gives good agreement between our theoretical inclusive neutrino 1 nucleus cross section and the available experimental data. Some interesting results on the behavior of the cross section as function of 1p-1n and higher contributions are also sketched. The previous results on the fraction of fake events in available experiments in 12C were expanded for the set of studied nuclei.With the increase of mass targets, the nuclear effects in the cross sections were observed and the importance of taking into account fakeevents in the reactions was noted.