Transverse Enhancement Model and MiniBooNE Charge Current Quasi-Elastic Neutrino Scattering Data

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the Transverse Enhancement Model against MiniBooNE neutrino scattering data and finds that an effective large axial mass model better matches the experimental results.

Contribution

The study demonstrates that incorporating an effective large axial mass improves agreement with data over the original transverse enhancement model.

Findings

Effective large axial mass model fits MiniBooNE data better.

Transverse Enhancement Model alone is less accurate.

Results support using modified axial mass in neutrino scattering models.

Abstract

Recently proposed Transverse Enhancement Model of nuclear effects in Charge Current Quasi-Elastic neutrino scattering [A. Bodek, H. S. Budd, and M. E. Christy, Eur. Phys. J. C{\bf 71} (2011) 1726] is confronted with the MiniBooNE high statistics experimental data. It is shown that the {\it effective} large axial mass model leads to better agreement with the data.