Effects of resonant and continuum states on the neutrino-nucleus cross section

• Estimates of the neutrino-nucleus cross section, for the charged-current process nu + Pb-208 -> e(-) + Bi-208*, are presented. The nuclear structure calculations were performed by considering bound, resonant, and continuum states in the single-particle basis used to construct correlated proton-particle neutron-hole configurations. The observed features of the spectrum of Bi-208 were reproduced, as accurately as possible, by diagonalizing a phenomenological multipole-multipole interaction. Calculations of the cross section, for values of q <= 200 MeV, were performed, and the dependence of the results on the choice of the residual proton-neutron interaction was investigated. It is found that the inclusion of resonant states in the calculation of the nuclear wave functions increases the neutrino-nucleus cross section and that the contribution of the continuum is negligible.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Subatomär fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Subatomic Physics (hsv//eng)

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Nuclear physics

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