2013/05/29 by A. Lovato, Alessandro Lovato, Stefano Gandolfi +6 · 9 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Anomaly (physics) #Atomic physics #Charge (physics) #Condensed matter physics #Elastic scattering #Form factor (electronics) #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Lepton #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Nuclear physics #Nuclear physics research studies #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Scattering #Sum rule in quantum mechanics #Transverse plane #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.111.092501
5 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2013/05/29 · openalex publication_date 2013/08/27 · arxiv updated 2015/06/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
An ab initio calculation of the 12C elastic form factor and sum rules of longitudinal and transverse response functions measured in inclusive (e, e') scattering are reported, based on realistic nuclear potentials and electromagnetic currents. The longitudinal elastic form factor and sum rule are found to be in satisfactory agreement with available experimental data. A direct comparison between theory and experiment is difficult for the transverse sum rule. However, it is shown that the calculated transverse sum rule has large contributions from two-body currents, indicating that these mechanisms lead to a significant enhancement of the quasielastic transverse response. This fact may have implications for the anomaly observed in recent neutrino quasielastic charge-changing scattering experiments on 12C.