Final-state interactions effects in neutral-current neutrino and antineutrino cross sections at MiniBooNE kinematics

Abstract

The analysis of the recent neutral-current elastic neutrino and antineutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections measured by the MiniBooNE Collaboration requires relativistic theoretical descriptions also accounting for the role of final-state interactions. In this work we investigate the sensitivity to final-state interactions and compare the MiniBooNE data with the results obtained in the relativistic Green's function model with different parameterizations for the phenomenological relativistic optical potential.

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures. version published in Physical Review D