Quasielastic Charged-Current Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with Nonrelativistic Nuclear Energy Density Functionals

Abstract

Charged-current neutrino-nucleus scattering is studied in the quasielastic region with the KIDS (Korea-IBS-Daegu-SKKU) nuclear energy density functional. We focus on the uncertainties stemming from the axial mass and the in-medium effective mass of the nucleon. Comparing the result of theory to the state-of-the-art data from MiniBooNE, T2K, and MINER$\nu$A, we constrain the axial mass and the effective mass that are compatible with the data. We find that the total cross section is insensitive to the effective mass, so the axial mass could be determined independently of the uncertainty in the effective mass. Differential cross sections at different kinematics are, on the other hand, sensitive to the effective mass as well as the axial mass. Within the uncertainty of the axial mass constrained from the total cross section, dependence on the effective mass is examined. As a result we obtain the axial mass and the effective mass that are consistent with the experimental data.

13 pages, 6 figures

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