Photon neutrino-production in a chiral EFT for nuclei and extrapolation to $E_{\nu }\sim$ GeV region

Abstract

We carry out a series of studies on pion and photon productions in neutrino/electron/photon--nucleus scatterings. The low energy region is investigated by using a chiral effective field theory for nuclei. The results for the neutral current induced photon production ($\gamma$-NCP) are then extrapolated to neutrino energy $E_{\nu }\sim$ GeV region. By convoluting the cross sections with MiniBooNE's beam spectrum and detection efficiency, we estimate its $\gamma$-NCP, event number, and conclude that such photon production can not fully explain its low energy event excess in both neutrino and antineutrino runs.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, and 1 table. Contribution to the proceedings of the International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta Beams (NUFACT 2013), August 2013, Beijing, China