Neutrino-induced forward meson-production reactions in nucleon resonance region

Jul, 2012
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 86 (2012) 097503
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Abstract: (arXiv)
As a first step toward developing a reaction model that enables a comprehensive description of neutrino-nucleon reactions in the nucleon resonance region, we have applied for the first time a dynamical coupled-channels model, which successfully describes \pi N, \gamma N --> \pi N, \eta N, \pi \pi N, K\Lambda, K\Sigma reactions up to W = 2 GeV, to predict the neutrino-induced meson-production reactions with \Delta S = 0 at the forward angle limit. This has been achieved by relating the divergence of the axial-current matrix elements at Q^2 = 0 to the \pi N --> X reaction amplitudes through the PCAC hypothesis. We present the contributions from each of the \pi N, \eta N, \pi \pi N, K\Lambda, K\Sigma channels to the F_2 structure function at Q^2 --> 0 limit up to W = 2 GeV.
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  • 9 pages, 3 figures
  • 13.15.+g
  • 13.60.Le
  • 13.75.Gx
  • 12.15.Ji
  • coupled channel
  • meson: neutrinoproduction
  • nucleon resonance
  • structure function: energy dependence
  • neutrino nucleon: inclusive reaction
  • PCAC model