Inclusive Muon Capture in Light Nuclei

Abstract

We study total muon capture rates in light nuclei, taking into account renormalizations of the nuclear vector and axial vector strengths. We estimate the influence in the results of uncertainties of the spin-isospin interaction parameter and nuclear densities. A few of these reactions are theoretical benchmarks for physics involving searches for neutrino oscillations. New experiments in muon capture in several targets are suggested, in the light of some discrepancies with theory, crudeness of some experimental results and relevance to neutrino physics.

11 pages, Latex, no figures. Submitted to Phys.Lett.B

References in corpus (2)

• Many Body approach to the inclusive $(e,e^{\prime })$ reaction from the quasielastic to the $\Delta$ excitation region
• Inclusive Neutrino Scattering in C-12: Implications for nu_mu to nu_e Oscillations

Cited by in corpus (4)

• Inclusive Quasi-Elastic Charged-Current Neutrino-Nucleus Reactions
• Weak reactions on 12C within the Continuum Random Phase Approximation with partial occupancies
• Charged Lepton Production from Iron Induced by Atmospheric Neutrinos
• Equivalence between local Fermi gas and shell models in inclusive muon capture from nuclei