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In neutrino oscillation experiments, neutrino interactions at the detector are simulated using event generators which attempt to reflect our understanding of nuclear physics. We study the impact of different neutrino interactions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Pilar Coloma , Patrick Huber , Chun-Min Jen , Camillo Mariani

We study neutrino-nucleus charged-current reactions on finite nuclei for the situation in which an outgoing muon and a proton are detected in coincidence, i.e., we focus on semi-inclusive cross sections. We limit our attention to one-body…

The simulation of the neutrino interaction is a crucial step in the simulation chain of a neutrino experiment. The different processes taking part in the neutrino scattering on a nucleus require several approximations in order to make the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-10-27 Johannes Schumann , Bouke Jung

Cross sections are calculated for neutrino scattering off heavy nuclei at energies below 50 MeV. The theory of Fermi liquid is applied to estimate the rate of neutrino-nucleon elastic and inelastic scattering in a nuclear medium in terms of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gennady I. Lykasov , Vadim A. Bednyakov

A non-technical overview of charge current quasi-elastic neutrino interaction is presented. Many body computations of multinucleon ejection which is proposed to explain recent large axial mass measurements are discussed. A few comments on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Jan T. Sobczyk

A precise description of neutrino-nucleus reactions will play a key role in addressing fundamental questions such as the leptonic CP violation and the neutrino mass hierarchy through analyzing data from next-generation neutrino oscillation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-12 S. X. Nakamura , H. Kamano , Y. Hayato , M. Hirai , W. Horiuchi , S. Kumano , T. Murata , K. Saito , M. Sakuda , T. Sato , Y. Suzuki

The neutrino-nucleus reactions are studied at energies from 0 to 3 GeV, using the CRISP program. To simulate these reactions, CRISP uses the Monte Carlo method through an intranuclear cascade model. Quase-elastic and baryonic resonance…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-06 R. Perez , A. Deppman , Evandro Andrade-II , A. R. Samana , F. G. Velasco , F. Guzmán

A quantitative understanding of the weak nuclear response is a prerequisite for the analyses of neutrino experiments such as K2K and MiniBOONE, which measure energy and angle of the muons produced in neutrino-nucleus interactions in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Omar Benhar , Nicola Farina , Hiroki Nakamura , Makoto Sakuda , Ryoichi Seki

Neutrino flow is the dominant mechanism of energy transfer in the latest stages of supernovae explosions and in compact stars. The Standard Model of particle physics and accelerator data, provide a satisfactory description of neutrino…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-27 Andrea Cipollone

We present a model for inclusive electron and neutrino scattering off nuclei paying special attention to the influence of in-medium effects on the quasi-elastic scattering and pion-production mechanisms. Our results for electron scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Buss , T. Leitner , L. Alvarez-Ruso , U. Mosel

The cross sections for neutrino scattering off the 12C and 16O nuclei are calculated within the framework of the continuum Random Phase Approximation. A model to consider also the final state interactions is developed. Total…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Antonio Botrugno , Giampaolo Co'

The quasi-elastic contribution of the nuclear inclusive electron scattering model developed in A. Gil, J. Nieves, and E. Oset: Nucl. Phys. A 627 (1997) 543; is extended to the study of electroweak Charged Current (CC) induced nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Valverde , J. Nieves , J. E. Amaro

We report new calculations of the cross sections for deeply inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering at neutrino energies between $10^{9}\ev$ and $10^{21}\ev$. We compare with results in the literature and assess the reliability of our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-05 Raj Gandhi , Chris Quigg , Mary Hall Reno , Ina Sarcevic

The neutrino research program in the coming decades will require improved precision. A major source of uncertainty is the interaction of neutrinos with nuclei that serve as targets for such experiments. Broadly speaking, this interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-02 Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya , Sam Carey , Erez O. Cohen , Gil Paz

Background. Neutrino-induced pion production can give important informationon the axial coupling to nucleon resonances. Furthermore, pion production represents a major background to quasielastic-like events. Single pion production data from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-10 Olga Lalakulich , Ulrich Mosel

We employ Landau's theory of normal Fermi liquids to study the quasiparticle interaction in nuclear matter in the vicinity of saturation density. Realistic low-momentum nucleon-nucleon interactions evolved from the Idaho N3LO chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 J. W. Holt , N. Kaiser , W. Weise

Charged current inclusive neutrino-nucleus cross sections are evaluated using the superscaling model for quasielastic scattering and its extension to the pion production region. The contribution of two-particle-two-hole vector…

An overview of neutrino-nucleus interactions is presented. After a brief discussion of theory and applications of detector response three examples are discussed: i) Recent work on neutrino-deuteron reactions, ii) Probing strangeness content…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. B. Balantekin

We study the impact of the description of the knockout nucleon wave function on electron- and neutrino-induced quasielastic and single-pion production cross sections. We work in a fully relativistic and quantum mechanical framework, where…

The study of neutrino-nucleus scattering processes is important for the new generation neutrino experiments for better understanding of the neutrino oscillation phenomenon. A significant source of uncertainty in the cross-section comes from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-10 Sam Carey