Testing superscaling predictions in electroweak excitations of nuclei

Abstract

Superscaling analysis of electroweak nuclear response functions is done for momentum transfer values from 300 to 700 MeV/c. Some effects, absent in the Relativistic Fermi Gas model, where the superscaling holds by construction, are considered. From the responses calculated for the 12C, 16O and 40Ca nuclei, we have extracted a theoretical universal superscaling function similar to that obtained from the experimental responses. Theoretical and empirical universal scaling functions have been used to calculate electron and neutrino cross sections. These cross sections have been compared with those obtained with a complete calculation and, for the electron scattering case, with the experimental data.