Hi,
I'm interested in the MEC interactions because I'm a member of MiniBooNE. I've been looking at the MEC code in the trunk and the calculation of the nucleon momentum probability distribution in FGMBodekRitchie.cxx. I see the code for the high energy tail of the nucleon momentum probability distribution.
(1) Is there some documentation or a description for why this particular shape of the high momentum tail is used?
(2) For all CCQE events and all MEC events, the nucleon momentum is drawn from anywhere in this (modified) momentum distribution. But, I would think that, for CCQE interactions, the nucleon momentum should always come from the standard part of the Fermi gas distribution. And for all MEC events, the momentum should come from the "high momentum tail"? Am I misreading the code or my reasoning? My physical understanding of the high momentum tail is that it is due to two nucleons (usually a p and n) tightly bound and correlated with each other, with very high angular momentum in an off-shell state.
Thanks,
Warren
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