https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8236-8
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Comparison of optical potential for nucleons and 
resonances
In electron scattering from nuclear targets
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14627-0171, USA
* e-mail: bodek@pas.rochester.edu
Received:
6
April
2020
Accepted:
12
July
2020
Published online:
22
July
2020
Precise modeling of neutrino interactions on nuclear targets is essential for neutrino oscillations experiments. The modeling of the energy of final state particles in quasielastic (QE) scattering and resonance production on bound nucleons requires knowledge of both the removal energy of the initial state bound nucleon as well as the average Coulomb and nuclear optical potentials for final state leptons and hadrons. We extract the average values of the real part of the nuclear optical potential for final state nucleons (
) as a function of the nucleon kinetic energy from inclusive electron scattering data on nuclear targets (
+
, 
+
, 
, 
, 
, 
) in the QE region and compare to calculations. We also extract values of the average of the real part of the nuclear optical potential for a 
resonance in the final state (
) within the impulse approximation. We find that is more negative than with 
1.5 for .
© The Author(s), 2020
