Eur. Phys. J. C (2008) 54: 517-538
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0582-x

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Quasielastic axial-vector mass from experiments on neutrino–nucleus scattering

¹ Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Russia
² Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117259, Moscow, Russia
³ Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Russia
⁴ Physics Department, Irkutsk State University, 664003, Irkutsk, Russia

^* e-mail: VNaumov@jinr.theor.ru

Received: 29 December 2007
Published online: 3 April 2008

Abstract

We analyse available experimental data on the total and differential charged-current cross sections for quasielastic ν_μN and ν̄_μN scattering, obtained with a variety of nuclear targets in the accelerator experiments at ANL, BNL, FNAL, CERN, and IHEP, dating from the end of sixties to the present day. The data are used to adjust the poorly known value of the axial-vector mass of the nucleon.