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Tomography of Atomic Nuclei
Noemi Rocco, Carlo Graziani, Alessandro Lovato +2
We carry out continuum quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the quantum-mechanical Wigner distribution functions of selected nuclei, up to O. These distributions provide a fo…
Final-state interactions in neutrino-induced proton knockout from argon in MicroBooNE
A. Nikolakopoulos, A. Ershova, R. González-Jiménez +5
Neutrino event generators make use of intranuclear cascade models (INCs), to predict the kinematics of hadrons produced in neutrino-nucleus interactions. We perform a consistent co…
Modeling inclusive electron-nucleus scattering with Bayesian artificial neural networks
Joanna E. Sobczyk, Noemi Rocco, Alessandro Lovato
We introduce a Bayesian protocol based on artificial neural networks that is suitable for modeling inclusive electron-nucleus scattering on a variety of nuclear targets with quanti…
Static and dynamic properties of atomic nuclei with high-resolution potentials
Alex Gnech, Alessandro Lovato, Noemi Rocco
We compute ground-state and dynamical properties of He and O nuclei using as input high-resolution, phenomenological nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon forces that are lo…
One and Two-Body Current Contributions to Lepton-Nucleus Scattering
Alessandro Lovato, Noemi Rocco, Noah Steinberg
Modeling lepton-nucleus scattering with the accuracy required to extract neutrino-oscillation parameters from long- and short-baseline experiments necessitates retaining most quant…
Interfacing Electron and Neutrino Quasielastic Scattering Cross Sections with the Spectral Function in GENIE
Minerba Betancourt, Steven Gardiner, Noemi Rocco +1
Progress in neutrino-nucleus cross section models is being driven by the need for highly accurate predictions for the neutrino oscillation community. These sophisticated models are…
Lepton-Nucleus Interactions within Microscopic Approaches
Alexis Nikolakopoulos, Noah Steinberg, Alessandro Lovato +1
This review paper emphasizes the significance of microscopic calculations with quantified theoretical error estimates in studying lepton-nucleus interactions and their implications…
Relativistic effects in Green's function Monte Carlo calculations of neutrino-nucleus scattering
Alexis Nikolakopoulos, Alessandro Lovato, Noemi Rocco
Microscopic calculations of neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections are critical for the success of the neutrino-oscillation program. In addition to retaining nuclear correlatio…
Mitigating Green's function Monte Carlo signal-to-noise problems using contour deformations
Gurtej Kanwar, Alessandro Lovato, Noemi Rocco +1
The Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) method provides accurate solutions to the nuclear many-body problem and predicts properties of light nuclei starting from realistic two- and…
Hidden-nucleons neural-network quantum states for the nuclear many-body problem
A. Lovato, C. Adams, G. Carleo +1
We generalize the hidden-fermion family of neural network quantum states to encompass both continuous and discrete degrees of freedom and solve the nuclear many-body Schrödinger eq…
Electron scattering on nuclei from quantum Monte Carlo based approaches
Lorenzo Andreoli, Joseph Carlson, Alessandro Lovato +3
We perform first-principle calculations of electron-nucleus scattering on He and H using the Green's function Monte Carlo method and two approaches based on the factorizati…
Nuclei with up to nucleons with artificial neural network wave functions
Alex Gnech, Corey Adams, Nicholas Brawand +3
The ground-breaking works of Weinberg have opened the way to calculations of atomic nuclei that are based on systematically improvable Hamiltonians. Solving the associated many-bod…
Machine learning-based inversion of nuclear responses
Krishnan Raghavan, Prasanna Balaprakash, Alessandro Lovato +2
A microscopic description of the interaction of atomic nuclei with external electroweak probes is required for elucidating aspects of short-range nuclear dynamics and for the corre…
Variational Monte Carlo calculations of nuclei with an artificial neural-network correlator ansatz
Corey Adams, Giuseppe Carleo, Alessandro Lovato +1
The complexity of many-body quantum wave functions is a central aspect of several fields of physics and chemistry where non-perturbative interactions are prominent. Artificial neur…
Ab initio study of and inclusive scattering in C: confronting the MiniBooNE and T2K CCQE data
A. Lovato, J. Carlson, S. Gandolfi +2
We carry out an ab initio calculation of the neutrino flux-folded inclusive cross sections, measured on C by the MiniBooNE and T2K collaborations in the charged-current quas…
Comparing event generator predictions and ab-initio calculations of -C neutral current quasi-elastic scattering at 1 GeV
G. B. King, K. Mahn, L. Pickering +1
The measurement of neutrino oscillations and exotic physics searches are important parts of the physics program in the near future, with new state-of-the-art experiments planned wi…
Lepton scattering from Ar and Ti in the quasielastic peak region
C. Barbieri, N. Rocco, V. Somà
Neutron and proton spectral functions of Ar, Ca, and Ti isotopes are computed using the ab initio self-consistent Green's function approach. The resulting radi…
Electroweak pion-production on nuclei within the extended factorization scheme
Noemi Rocco, Satoshi X. Nakamura, T. -S. H. Lee +1
We have applied the extended factorization scheme to investigate the electroweak pion production on nuclei. The ANL-Osaka model, which was obtained by analyzing the data of , $…
Polarization of tau in quasielastic (anti)neutrino scattering: the role of spectral functions
J. E. Sobczyk, N. Rocco, J. Nieves
We present a study of the polarization in charged-current quasielastic (anti)neutrino-nucleus scattering. The spectral function formalism is used to compute the differential cr…
Weak production of strange and charm ground-state baryons in nuclei
J. E. Sobczyk, N. Rocco, A. Lovato +1
We present results for the quasi-elastic weak production of and hyperons induced by scattering off nuclei, in the kinematical region of interest for accelerator neu…
Neutrino-nucleus cross section within the extended factorization scheme
Noemi Rocco, Carlo Barbieri, Omar Benhar +2
The factorization scheme, based on the impulse approximation and the spectral function formalism, has been recently generalized to allow the description of electromagnetic nuclear…
Inclusive electron-nucleus cross section within the Self Consistent Green's Function approach
N. Rocco, C. Barbieri
We compute inclusive electron-nucleus cross sections using ab initio spectral functions of He and O obtained within the Self Consistent Green's Function approach. The fo…
Relativistic effects in ab-initio electron-nucleus scattering
Noemi Rocco, Winfried Leidemann, Alessandro Lovato +1
The electromagnetic responses obtained from Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) calculations are based on realistic treatments of nuclear interactions and currents. The main limita…
Scaling within the Spectral Function approach
J. E. Sobczyk, N. Rocco, A. Lovato +1
Scaling features of the nuclear electromagnetic response functions unveil aspects of nuclear dynamics that are crucial for interpretating neutrino- and electron-scattering data. In…