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Recent developments in solar, reactor, and accelerator neutrino physics are reviewed. Implications for neutrino physics, solar physics, nuclear two-body physics, and r-process nucleosynthesis are briefly discussed.

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 A. B. Balantekin

Neutrino scattering at low energies is essential for a variety of timely applications potentially having fundamental implications, e.g. unraveling unknown neutrino properties, such as the third neutrino mixing angle, the detection of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Cristina Volpe

The effects of nuclear re-interactions in the quasi-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering are investigated with a phenomenological model. We found that the nuclear responses are lowered and their maxima are shifted towards higher excitation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-23 C. Bleve , G. Co` , I. De Mitri , P. Bernardini , G. Mancarella , D. Martello , A. Surdo

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

We study nuclear reaction cross-sections for stable and unstable projectiles and targets within Glauber model, using densities obtained from various relativistic mean field formalisms. The calculated cross-sections are compared with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Shukla , B. K. Sharma , R. Chandra , P. Arumugam , S. K. Patra

Motivated by the evidence for a finite neutrino mass we examine anew the interaction of neutrinos in a magnetic field. We present the rate for radiative scattering for both massless and massive neutrinos in the standard model and give the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 K. S. McFarland , A. C. Melissinos , N. V. Mikheev , W. W. Repko

We study neutrino-induced nucleon knockout from nuclei. Expressions for the induced polarization are derived within the framework of the independent-nucleon model and the non-relativistic plane-wave approximation. Large dissimilarities in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Jachowicz , K. Vantournhout , J. Ryckebusch , K. Heyde

The availability of the double-differential charged-current neutrino cross section, measured by the MiniBooNE collaboration using a carbon target, allows for a systematic comparison of nuclear effects in quasi-elastic electron and neutrino…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Omar Benhar

Microscopic calculations of neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections are critical for the success of the neutrino-oscillation program. In addition to retaining nuclear correlations in the initial and final state of the reaction, they are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-25 Alexis Nikolakopoulos , Alessandro Lovato , Noemi Rocco

Nuclear reactors are an essential source of neutrinos. In this proceeding, I review the past and current status of the research on neutrino oscillations using reactor neutrinos. I also present a promising idea for positron tagging that will…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-21 Thiago Bezerra

Accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments have the potential to revolutionise our understanding of fundamental physics, offering an opportunity to characterise charge-parity violation in the lepton sector; to determine the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-28 Stephen Dolan , Luke Pickering , Patrick Stowell , Callum Wilkinson , Clarence Wret

Nuclear structure calculations in the context of a novel hybrid nuclear model, combining the nuclear shell model and the microscopic quasiparticle-phonon model are presented. The predictivity of the hybrid model is tested by computing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-13 Matti Hellgren , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Jouni Suhonen

We propose to extract the value of the effective neutrino charge radius from the coherent scattering of a neutrino against a heavy nucleus. In such an experiment the relevant quantity to measure is the kinetic energy distribution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joannis Papavassiliou , Jose Bernabeu , Massimo Passera

We suggest that superscaling analyses of few-GeV inclusive electron scattering from nuclei, both in the quasielastic peak and in the region where the $\Delta$-excitation dominates, allow one to make reliable predictions for charge-changing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. B. Barbaro , J. E. Amaro , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly

A brief overview of the electromagnetic properties of neutrinos is presented with a discussion of the most important fundamental aspects of the problem. Then using data from the ground-based reactor and solar neutrino-electron scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-02 Alexander Studenikin

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 experiments study the least understood of the Standard Model particles by observing their direct interactions with matter or searching for ultra-rare signals. The study of neutrinos typically requires overcoming large backgrounds,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Fernanda Psihas , Micah Groh , Christopher Tunnell , Karl Warburton

In this review, we discuss the current understanding of charged current (anti)neutrino scattering off nucleons and nuclear targets in the few-GeV energy range, a domain of paramount importance for accelerator and atmospheric neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 M. Sajjad Athar

Experiments aiming to detect coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering present opportunities to probe new light weakly-coupled states, such as sub-GeV mass dark matter, in several extensions of the Standard Model. These states can be produced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-11 Patrick deNiverville , Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz

Neutrino interaction uncertainties are a limiting factor in current and next-generation experiments probing the fundamental physics of neutrinos, a unique window on physics beyond the Standard Model. Neutrino-nucleon scattering amplitudes…