{
  "id": "1512.07426",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-12-23T10:45:06.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-12-23T10:45:06.000Z",
  "title": "Unified description of electron-nucleus scattering within the spectral function formalism",
  "authors": [
    "Noemi Rocco",
    "Alessandro Lovato",
    "Omar Benhar"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "nucl-th",
    "hep-ex",
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We developed a novel approach based on a generalization of factorization and nuclear spectral functions, allowing for a consistent treatment of the amplitudes involving one- and two-nucleon currents, whose contribution to the nuclear electromagnetic response in the transverse channel is known to be significant. We report the results of calculations of the inclusive electron-carbon cross section, showing that the inclusion of processes involving two-nucleon currents appreciably improves the agreement between theory and data in the dip region, between the quasi elastic and $\\Delta$-production peaks. The implications for the analysis of neutrino-nucleus cross sections are discussed.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-12-23T10:45:06.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "spectral function formalism",
      "unified description",
      "electron-nucleus scattering",
      "two-nucleon currents",
      "inclusive electron-carbon cross section"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.192501"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015arXiv151207426R",
      "inspire": 1411224
    }
  }
}