Anti-neutrino Cross Sections for Neon and Deuterium

Abstract

Recent anti-neutrino experiments have shown a marked difference in the quantity RA(x) = (duVn/dx)/(duiiP/dx) between deuterium and neon. It has been suggested that this difference may be related to an effect discovered by the European Muon Collaboration (EMC). We test several popular and apparently successful explanations of the EMC effect against the data. We find that none of the models examined can explain the observations.