Effect of the charged-lepton's mass on the quasielastic neutrino cross sections

Artur M. Ankowski
Phys. Rev. C 96, 035501 – Published 7 September 2017
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Abstract

Martini et al. [Phys. Rev. C 94, 015501 (2016)] recently observed that when the produced-lepton's mass plays an important role, the charged-current quasielastic cross section for muon neutrinos can be higher than that for electron neutrinos. Here I argue that this effect appears solely in the theoretical descriptions of nuclear effects in which nucleon knockout requires the energy and momentum transfers to lie in a narrow range of the kinematically allowed values.

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  • Received 4 July 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.035501

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Nuclear Physics

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Artur M. Ankowski*

  • Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA

  • *ankowski@vt.edu

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Vol. 96, Iss. 3 — September 2017

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