Quasi-elastic neutrino charged-current scattering off C-12

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The charged-current quasi-elastic scattering of muon neutrino on a carbon target is calculated for neutrino energy up to 2.8 GeV using the relativistic distorted-wave impulse approximation with relativistic optical potential, which was earlier successfully applied to describe electron-nucleus data.

• We studied both neutrino and electron processes and have shown that the reduced exclusive cross section for neutrino and electron scattering are similar.
• We have also studied nuclear and axial vector mass effects on the shape of $Q^2$ distribution.
• The comparison of the (anti)neutrino total cross sections per (proton)neutron, calculated for the carbon and oxygen targets shows the cross sections for oxygen to be lower than those for carbon.