Unified Description of Electron-Nucleus Scattering within the Spectral Function Formalism

作者:Rocco Noemi*; Lovato Alessandro; Benhar Omar
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2016, 116(19): 192501.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.192501

摘要

The formalism based on factorization and nuclear spectral functions has been generalized to treat transition matrix elements involving two-nucleon currents, whose contribution to the nuclear electromagnetic response in the transverse channel is known to be significant. We report the results of calculations of the inclusive electron-carbon cross section, showing that the inclusion of processes involving two-nucleon currents appreciably improves the agreement between theory and data in the dip region, between the quasielastic and Delta-production peaks. The relation to approaches based on the independent particle of the nucleus and the implications for the analysis of flux-integrated neutrino-nucleus cross sections are discussed.

  • 出版日期2016-5-11
  • 单位美国弗吉尼亚理工大学(Virginia Tech)