Charged Lepton Production from Iron Induced by Atmospheric Neutrinos

Abstract

The charged current lepton production induced by neutrinos in ${}^{56}Fe$ nuclei has been studied. The calculations have been done for the quasielastic as well as the inelastic reactions assuming $\Delta$ dominance and take into account the effect of Pauli blocking, Fermi motion and the renormalization of weak transition strengths in the nuclear medium. The quasielastic production cross section for lepton production are found to be strongly reduced due to nuclear effects while there is about 10% reduction in the inelastic cross sections in the absence of the final state interactions of the pions. The numerical results for the momentum and angular distributions of the leptons averaged over the various atmospheric neutrino spectra at the Soudan and Gransasso sites have been presented. The effect of nuclear model dependence and the atmospheric flux dependence on the relative yield of $\mu$ to e has been studied and discussed.

arXiv comment16pages, 18figures

References in corpus (18)

• First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Anti-Neutrino Disappearance
• Measurement of the Total Active 8B Solar Neutrino Flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with Enhanced Neutral Current Sensitivity
• Phenomenology of Neutrino Oscillations
• Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino flavour composition in Soudan 2
• Calculation of the Flux of Atmospheric Neutrinos
• Evidence for nu_mu -> nu_e Oscillations from Pion Decay in Flight Neutrinos
• A New calculation of the atmospheric neutrino flux in a 3-dimensional scheme
• Observation of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations in Soudan 2
• Many Body approach to the inclusive $(e,e^{\prime })$ reaction from the quasielastic to the $\Delta$ excitation region
• Neutrino Production of Resonances
• Three-Neutrino Oscillations of Atmospheric Neutrinos, theta13, Neutrino Mass Hierarchy and Iron Magnetized Detectors
• Measurements of Charged Current Reactions of muon neutrinos on C12
• Charged-current neutrino-208Pb reactions
• Relativistic nuclear structure effects in quasielastic neutrino scattering
• Quasielastic neutrino scattering from oxygen and the atmospheric neutrino problem
• Inclusive Muon Capture in Light Nuclei
• MACRO results on atmospheric neutrino oscillations
• Status of the MINOS experiment

Cited by in corpus (12)

• Progress and open questions in the physics of neutrino cross sections
• Charged Current Neutrino Nucleus Interactions at Intermediate Energies
• Photon emission in neutral current interactions at intermediate energies
• Weak Quasi-elastic Production of Hyperons
• Neutrino Induced Charged Current 1${\pi }^{+}$ Production At Intermediate Energies
• Weak charged and neutral current induced one pion production off the nucleon
• Theoretical study of lepton events in the atmospheric neutrino experiments at SuperK
• Charged current anti-neutrino reactions from ${}^{12}$C at MiniBooNE energies
• Electron and Muon production cross sections in quasielastic $\nu (\bar{\nu })$-Nucleus scattering for $E_{\nu }<1GeV$
• CC1${\pi }^{+}$ to CCQE cross sections ratio at accelerator energies
• Nuclear cross sections in ${}^{16}\text{O}$ for $\beta$ beam neutrinos at intermediate energies
• Weak Pion Production From Nuclei