Nuclear model effects in neutrino-nucleus quasielastic scattering

Abstract

Nuclear model effects in neutrino-nucleus quasielastic scattering are studied within the distorted wave impulse approximation, using a relativistic shell model to describe the nucleus, and comparing it with the relativistic Fermi gas. Both charged-current and neutral-current processes are considered and, for the neutral-current case, the uncertainties that nuclear effects may introduce in measurements of the axial strange form-factor of the nucleon are investigated.

Comments: Contribution to 20th Max Born Symposium, Wroclaw (Poland), December 7-10, 2005