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Among the most important tasks of neutrino oscillation experiments is correctly estimating the parent neutrino energy from the by-products of their interactions. Large uncertainties in our current understanding of such processes can…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jeremy Wolcott

In recent years, many studies on neutrino-nucleus scattering have been carried out to investigate nuclear structures and the interactions between neutrinos and nucleons. This paper develops a charged-current quasielastic (CCQE)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-12 Jian Liu , Qiang Su , Qinglin Niu , Lei Wang , Zhongzhou Ren

The weak interactions of neutrinos with other Standard Model particles are well described within the Standard Model of particle physics. However, modern accelerator-based neutrino experiments employ nuclei as targets, where neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-10 Vishvas Pandey

We discuss nuclear effects on neutrino-nuclear interactions in a wide kinematical range from shallow to deep inelastic scattering (DIS) region. There is necessity from neutrino communities to have precise neutrino-nucleus cross sections for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Kumano

We investigate neutrino-nucleus collisions at intermediate energies incorporating quasi-elastic scattering and the excitation of 13 resonances as elementary processes, taking into account medium effects such as Fermi motion, Pauli blocking,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 T. Leitner , O. Buss , U. Mosel , L. Alvarez-Ruso

Nuclear reactions induced by muon neutrino with energies in the range from 0.2 to 1.5 GeV in Monte Carlo calculations framework in the intra-nuclear cascade model are studied. This study was done by comparison between the available…

The electron-neutrino charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) cross section on nuclei is an important input parameter to appearance-type neutrino oscillation experiments. Current experiments typically work from the muon neutrino cross section…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jeremy Wolcott

We study possible saturation effects in the total cross-section describing interaction of ultrahigh energy neutrinos with nucleons. This analysis is performed within the two approaches, i.e. within the Golec-Biernat W\"usthoff saturation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Krzysztof Kutak , Jan Kwiecinski

Pion production on nuclei constitutes a significant part of the total cross section in experiments involving few-GeV neutrinos. Combined analyses of data on deuterium and heavier nuclei points to tensions between the bubble chamber data and…

We investigate neutrino-nucleus interactions at energies around 1 GeV. In this regime, the main contributions to the cross sections come from quasi-elastic and $\Delta$ production processes. Our formalism, based on the Impulse Approximation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Omar Benhar , Davide Meloni

We have presented a review of the properties of neutrinos and their interactions with matter. The different (anti)neutrino processes like the quasielastic scattering, inelastic production of mesons and hyperons, and the deep inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-13 M. Sajjad Athar , A. Fatima , S. K. Singh

We have investigated the neutrino induced coherent pion production reaction at low and intermediate energies including pion, nucleon and Delta(1232) resonance. Medium effects in the production mechanism and the distortion of the pion wave…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-09-06 L. Alvarez-Ruso , L. S. Geng , S. Hirenzaki , M. J. Vicente Vacas

We make a review of the main nuclear effects that affect neutrino-nucleus cross sections. We discuss how the different models in the literature try to describe these different effects, and thus try to compare between them. We focus on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-05-07 M. Valverde , J. Nieves , J. E. Amaro , M. J. Vicente-Vacas

We present the results of (anti)neutrino induced CCQE cross sections from some nuclear targets in the energy region of $E_\nu \le 1 GeV$. The aim of the study is to confront electron and muon production cross sections relevant for $\nu_\mu…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 M. Sajjad Athar , F. Akbar , M. Rafi Alam , S. Chauhan , S. K. Singh , F. Zaidi

The structure of nucleon self-energy in nuclear matter is evaluated for various realistic models of the nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction. Starting from the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approximation without the usual angle-average approximation,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Frick , Kh. Gad , H. Müther , P. Czerski

Neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering ($\nu {\rm A}_{el}$) provides a unique laboratory to study the quantum-mechanical (QM) coherency effects in electroweak interactions. The deviations of the cross-sections from those of completely coherent…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-05-12 V. Sharma , L. Singh , H. T. Wong , M. Agartioglu , J. -W. Chen , M. Deniz , S. Kerman , H. B Li , C. -P. Liu , K. Saraswat , M. K. Singh , V. Singh

Neutrino telescopes like IceCube, KM3NeT and Baikal-GVD offer physicists the opportunity to study neutrinos with energies far beyond the reach of terrestrial accelerators. These neutrinos are used to study high-energy neutrino interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-05 Spencer R. Klein , Sally A. Robertson , Ramona Vogt

Recent neutrino-nucleus cross-section measurements of observables characterising kinematic imbalance from the T2K, MicroBooNE and MINERvA experiments are used to benchmark predictions from widely used neutrino interaction event generators.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-21 Wissal Filali , Laura Munteanu , Stephen Dolan

Different approaches to the calculation of neutrino-nucleus cross sections are summarized. Potential impact of improving the nuclear physics input into neutrino interactions and cross section calculations on uncovering new physics is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 A. B. Balantekin

Background: Charged current pion production gives information on the axial formfactors of nucleon resonances. It also introduces a noticeable background to quasi-elastic measurements on nuclear targets. Purpose: Understand pion production…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-31 Olga Lalakulich , Ulrich Mosel