Abstract
Monoenergetic muon neutrinos at 236 MeV are readily produced in intense medium-energy proton facilities when a positive kaon decays at rest (KDAR; ). These neutrinos provide a unique opportunity to both study the neutrino interaction and probe the nucleus with a monoenergetic weak-interaction-only tool. We present cross-section calculations for quasielastic scattering of these 236-MeV neutrinos off and , paying special attention to low-energy aspects of the scattering process. Our model takes the description of the nucleus in a mean-field approach as the starting point, where we solve Hartree-Fock equations using a Skyrme type nucleon-nucleon interaction. Thereby, we introduce long-range nuclear correlations by means of a continuum random-phase approximation (CRPA) framework where we solve the CRPA equations using a Green's function method. The model successfully describes () data on and in the kinematic region that overlaps with the KDAR phase space. In addition to these results, we present future prospects for precision KDAR cross-section measurements and applications of our calculations in current and future experiments that will utilize these neutrinos.
10 More- Received 19 October 2020
- Revised 10 February 2021
- Accepted 10 May 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.103.064603
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