INCLUSIVE QUASI-ELASTIC NEUTRINO REACTIONS IN C-12 AND O-16 AT INTERMEDIATE ENERGIES

Inclusive quasielastic neutrino (antineutrino) reactions on C-12 and O-16 at intermediate energies (50 < E < 400 MeV) are studied to investigate the effects of the nuclear medium on the total cross section and the energy spectrum of the outgoing leptons. The calculations are done in the local density approximation and various nuclear effects like Pauli blocking, Fermi motion, and strong-interaction renormalizations due to the presence of nucleons are taken into account. The corrections due to Coulomb effects are included which have been hitherto neglected in inclusive reactions. The results presented here are applicable to the inclusive reactions with neutrino beams planned to look for neutrino oscillations in the Los Alamos experiments or the experiments with underground detectors looking for atmospheric or solar flare neutrinos.