Coincidence charged-current neutrino-induced deuteron disintegration
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Author(s)
Van Orden, J. W.
Ford, W. P.
Moreno Diaz, Oscar
Donnelly, T William
Date Issued
September 2015
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
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Moreno, O., T. W. Donnelly, J. W. Van Orden, and W. P. Ford. "Coincidence charged-current neutrino-induced deuteron disintegration." Phys. Rev. D 92, 053006 (September 2015). © 2015 American Physical Society
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Abstract
Deuteron disintegration by charged-current neutrino (CCν) scattering offers the possibility to determine the energy of the incident neutrino by measuring in coincidence two of the three resulting particles: a charged lepton (usually a muon) and two protons, where we show that this channel can be isolated from all others—for instance, from those with a pion in the final state. We discuss the kinematics of the process for several detection scenarios, both in terms of kinematic variables that are natural from a theoretical point of view and others that are better matched to experimental situations. The deuteron structure is obtained from a relativistic model (involving an approximation to the Bethe-Salpeter equation) as an extension of a previous, well-tested model used in deuteron electrodisintegration. We provide inclusive and coincidence (semi-inclusive) cross sections for a variety of kinematic conditions, using the plane-wave impulse approximation, introducing final-state hadronic exchange terms (plane-wave Born approximation) and final-state hadronic interactions (distorted-wave Born approximation).
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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