Electron-nucleus scattering in the NEUT event generator
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2023-01-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The NEUT event generator is a widely-used tool to simulate neutrino interactions for energies between 10s of MeV and a few TeV. NEUT plays a crucial role in neutrino oscillation analyses for the T2K and Hyper-K experiments, providing the primary simulation of the neutrino interactions whose final-state products are measured to infer the oscillation parameters. NEUT is also capable of simulating nucleon decay and hadron scattering. These proceedings present an expansion of NEUT to simulate electron scattering before showing comparisons to experimental measurements and using discrepancies to derive an empirical correction to NEUT's treatment of nuclear removal energy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2301.09195,
title = {Electron-nucleus scattering in the NEUT event generator},
author = {S. Dolan and J. McElwee and S. Bolognesi and Y. Hayato and K. McFarland and G. Megias and K. Niewczas and L. Pickering and J. Sobczyk and L. Thompson and C. Wret},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.09195},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures. NuFact2022 proceedings submission