title: Superscaling predictions for neutral current quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering.
abstract: The application of superscaling ideas to predict neutral-current (NC) quasielastic (QE) neutrino cross sections is investigated. The relativistic impulse approximation (RIA) using the same relativistic mean field potential (RMF) for both initial and final nucleons - a model that reproduces the experimental (e,e(')) scaling function - is used to illustrate our findings. While NC reactions are apparently not well suited for scaling analyses, to a large extent, the RIA-RMF predictions do exhibit superscaling. Independence of the scaled response on the nuclear species is very well fulfilled. The RIA-RMF NC superscaling function is in good agreement with the experimental (e,e(')) one. The idea that electroweak processes can be described with a universal scaling function, provided that mild restrictions on the kinematics are assumed, is shown to be valid.
authors: Grupo de Física Nuclear, Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
authors: M C
authors: MC
authors: Martínez
authors: J A
authors: JA
authors: Caballero
authors: T W
authors: TW
authors: Donnelly
authors: J M
authors: JM
authors: Udías