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Currently running and forthcoming precision neutrino oscillation experiments aim to unambiguously determine the neutrino mass ordering, the charge-parity violating phase in the lepton sector and the possible existence of physics Beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-10 Afroditi Papadopoulou

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

We calculate the cross section of the electron scattering from a bound nucleon within light-front approximation. The advantage of this approximation is the possibility of systematic account for the off-shell effects which become essential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 Frank Vera , Misak M. Sargsian

Neutrino-nucleus $\nu A\to \nu A$ and antineutrino-nucleus $\bar\nu A\to \bar\nu A$ interactions, when the nucleus conserves its integrity, are discussed with coherent (elastic) and incoherent (inelastic) scattering regimes taken into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-08 Vadim A. Bednyakov , Dmitry V. Naumov

Neutrino-nucleus cross section uncertainties are expected to be a dominant systematic in future accelerator neutrino experiments. The cross sections are determined by the linear response of the nucleus to the weak interactions of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Alessandro Roggero , Andy C. Y. Li , Joseph Carlson , Rajan Gupta , Gabriel N. Perdue

We present a theoretical approach to investigate the scattering of polarized electrons from light nuclei using the multipole expansion for the scattering cross section within the framework of the unified electroweak theory. Scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Minh Truong Vo , Vu Dong Tran , Quang Hung Nguyen

Proper interpretation of past, current, and future data on lepton-nucleus reactions requires a clear separation between quantum electrodynamics (QED) and strong interaction effects inside the nucleus. First studies of QED in-medium lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-27 Oleksandr Tomalak , Ivan Vitev

Large liquid xenon detectors aiming for dark matter direct detection will soon become viable tools also for investigating neutrino physics. Information on the effects of nuclear structure in neutrino-nucleus scattering can be important in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-25 Pekka Pirinen , Jouni Suhonen , Emanuel Ydrefors

We argue that, in many situations, fits to elastic scattering data that were historically, and frequently still are, considered `good', are not justifiably so describable. Information about the dynamics of nucleon-nucleus and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-12 R. S. Mackintosh

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

Theoretical study of systematics of neutron scattering cross sections on various materials for neutron energies up to several hundred MeV are of practical importance. In this paper, we analysed various cross sections of neutron-nucleus…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Surya Narayan , Rajesh S. Gowda , S. Ganesan

With the aim at quantitatively investigating the longstanding problem concerning the effect of short range nucleon-nucleon correlations on scattering processes at high energies, the total neutron-nucleus cross section is calculated within a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Alvioli , C. Ciofi degli Atti , I. Marchino , V. Palli , H. Morita

In this work, we have studied (anti)neutrino induced charged current quasielastic scattering from some nuclear targets in the energy region of $E_\nu < 1~GeV$. Our aim is to confront electron and muon production cross sections relevant for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 F. Akbar , M. Rafi Alam , M. Sajjad Athar , S. Chauhan , S. K. Singh , F. Zaidi

Recent experimental results and developments in the theoretical treatment of neutrino-nucleus interactions in the energy range of 1-10 GeV are discussed. Difficulties in extracting neutrino-nucleon cross sections from neutrino-nucleus…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-10-01 Jorge G. Morfin , Juan Nieves , Jan T. Sobczyk

The study of neutrino-nucleus interactions has recently seen rapid development with a new generation of accelerator-based neutrino experiments employing medium and heavy nuclear targets for the study of neutrino oscillations. A few…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-11 G. T. Garvey , D. A. Harris , H. A. Tanaka , R. Tayloe , G. P. Zeller

Inclusive electron scattering from nuclei at large x and $Q^2$ is the result of a reaction mechanism that includes both quasi--elastic scattering from nucleons and deep inelastic scattering from the quark constituents of the nucleons. Data…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-13 Nadia Fomin

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…

In the impulse approximation regime the nuclear response to a weakly interacting probe can be written in terms of the measured nucleon structure fuctions and the target spectral function, yielding the energy and momentum distribution of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Omar Benhar , Nicola Farina

We provide integrated cross sections for quasielastic charged-current neutrino-nucleus scattering. Results evaluated using the phenomenological scaling function extracted from the analysis of experimental $(e,e')$ data are compared with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. E. Amaro , M. B. Barbaro , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly

A theoretical description of nucleon knockout reactions initiated by polarized electron scattering from polarized nuclei is presented. Explicit expressions for the complete set of reduced response functions (independent of the polarization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. E. Amaro , T. W. Donnelly