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most citedInclusive Charged--Current Neutrino--Nucleus Reactions

396 citations · 1.7k across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

hep-ph2020★ 23 cited

Inclusive and exclusive neutrino-nucleus cross sections and the reconstruction of the interaction kinematics

Bruno Bourguille, Juan Nieves, Federico Sanchez

We present a full kinematic analysis of neutrino-nucleus charged current quasielastic interactions based on the Local Fermi Gas model and the Random PhaseApproximation. The model w…

hep-ph2019

Charmed excited baryons with heavy-quark spin symmetry

L. Tolos, J. Nieves, R. Pavao

Recently five excited states have been reported by the LHCb Collaboration, four of them corroborated by Belle. The Belle Collaboration has also discovered in 2017 one excited…

nucl-th2019★ 22 cited

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…

hep-ph2018★ 34 cited

Angular distributions in electroweak pion production off nucleons: odd parity hadron terms, strong relative phases and model dependence

J. E. Sobczyk, E. Hernández, S. X. Nakamura +2

The study of pion production in nuclei is important for signal and background determinations in current and future neutrino oscillation experiments. The first step, however, is to…

nucl-th2017★ 11 cited

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…

nucl-th2017★ 16 cited

Electromagnetic scaling functions within the Green's Function Monte Carlo approach

N. Rocco, L. Alvarez-Ruso, A. Lovato +1

We have studied the scaling properties of the electromagnetic response functions of He and C nuclei computed by the Green's Function Monte Carlo approach, retaining only…

hep-ph2015★ 47 cited

Watson's theorem and the axial transition

L. Alvarez-Ruso, E. Hernández, J. Nieves +1

We present a new determination of the axial form factors from neutrino induced pion production data. For this purpose, the model of Hernandez {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. D76, 033…

hep-ph2014★ 2 cited

Hidden charm and bottom molecular states

F. -K. Guo, C. Hidalgo-Duque, J. Nieves +2

We investigate heavy quark symmetries for heavy light meson-antimeson systems in a contact-range effective field theory. In the SU(3) light flavor limit, the leading order Lagrangi…

hep-ph2014★ 2 cited

Neutrino-nucleus CCQE-like scattering

J. Nieves, R. Gran, I. Ruiz Simo +2

RPA correlations, spectral function and 2p2h (multi-nucleon) effects on charged-current neutrino-nucleus reactions without emitted pions are discussed. We pay attention to the infl…

hep-ph2014

Long-distance structure of the X(3872)

F. -K. Guo, C. Hidalgo-Duque, J. Nieves +2

We investigate heavy quark symmetries for heavy meson hadronic molecules, and explore the consequences of assuming the X(3872) and as an isoscalar and an i…

hep-ph2014★ 37 cited

Single photon events from neutral current interactions at MiniBooNE

E. Wang, L. Alvarez-Ruso, J. Nieves

The MiniBooNE experiment has reported results from the analysis of and appearance searches, which show an excess of signal-like events at low reconstructed neutrin…

hep-ph2014★ 13 cited

semileptonic decay from an Omnès improved constituent quark model

C. Albertus, E. Hernández, C. Hidalgo-Duque +1

We study the form factor for the semileptonic decay in a constituent quark model. The valence quark estimate is supplemented with the contri…

hep-ph2014★ 142 cited

Progress and open questions in the physics of neutrino cross sections

L. Alvarez-Ruso, Y. Hayato, J. Nieves

New and more precise measurements of neutrino cross sections have renewed the interest in a better understanding of electroweak interactions on nucleons and nuclei. This effort is…

nucl-th2013★ 33 cited

Re-analysis of the photoproduction reaction

Ju-Jun Xie, En Wang, J. Nieves

Based on previous studies that support the important role of the resonance in the reaction, we make a re-analysis of this photopro…

hep-ph2013★ 69 cited

Single pion production in neutrino nucleus scattering

E. Hernández, J. Nieves, M. J. Vicente Vacas

We study one pion production in both charged and neutral current neutrino nucleus scattering for neutrino energies below 2 GeV. We use a theoretical model for one pion production a…

hep-ph2013★ 37 cited

X(3872) and its Partners in the Heavy Quark Limit of QCD

C. Hidalgo-Duque, J. Nieves, A. Ozpineci +1

In this letter, we propose interpolating currents for the X(3872) resonance, and show that, in the Heavy Quark limit of QCD, the X(3872) state should have degenerate partners, inde…

hep-ph2013

Odd-parity dynamically generated baryon resonances with beauty flavor

O. Romanets, C. Garcia-Recio, L. L. Salcedo +2

We study baryon resonances with heavy flavor in a molecular approach, thus as dynamically generated by baryon-meson scattering. This is accomplished by using a unitary coupled-chan…

hep-ph2013★ 93 cited

Two Particle-Hole Excitations in Charged Current Quasielastic Antineutrino--Nucleus Scattering

J. Nieves, I. Ruiz Simo, M. J. Vicente Vacas

We evaluate the quasielastic and multinucleon contributions to the antineutrino nucleus scattering cross section and compare our results with the recent MiniBooNE data. We use a lo…

hep-ph2012★ 2 cited

Heavy Quark Spin Symmetry and SU(3)-Flavour Partners of the X(3872)

C. Hidalgo-Duque, J. Nieves, M. Pavón Valderrama

In this work, an Effective Field Theory (EFT) incorporating light SU(3)-flavour and heavy quark spin symmetry is used to describe charmed meson-antimeson bound states. At Lowest Or…

hep-ph2012★ 159 cited

Light Flavour and Heavy Quark Spin Symmetry in Heavy Meson Molecules

C. Hidalgo-Duque, J. Nieves, M. Pavon Valderrama

We propose an effective field theory incorporating light SU(3)-flavour and heavy quark spin symmetry to describe charmed meson-antimeson bound states. At lowest order the effective…

hep-ph2012★ 125 cited

Neutrino Energy Reconstruction and the Shape of the CCQE-like Total Cross Section

J. Nieves, F. Sanchez, I. Ruiz Simo +1

We show that because of the multinucleon mechanism effects, the algorithm used to reconstruct the neutrino energy is not adequate when dealing with quasielastic-like events, and a…

hep-ph2012★ 215 cited

The Heavy Quark Spin Symmetry Partners of the X(3872)

J. Nieves, M. Pavon Valderrama

We explore the consequences of heavy quark spin symmetry for the charmed meson-antimeson system in a contact-range (or pionless) effective field theory. As a trivial consequence, w…

hep-ph2011

The nucleon axial mass and the MiniBooNE CCQE neutrino-nucleus data

J. Nieves, I. Ruiz-Simo, M. J. Vicente-Vacas

We analyze the MiniBooNE CCQE data using a theoretical model that has proved to be quite successful in the analysis of nuclear reactions with electron, photon and…

hep-ph2011★ 17 cited

Are there three Xi(1950) states?

M. Pavon Valderrama, Ju-Jun Xie, J. Nieves

Different experiments on hadron spectroscopy have long suspected the existence of several cascade states in the region. They are usually labeled under the com…