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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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-24 S. Dolan , J. McElwee , S. Bolognesi , Y. Hayato , K. McFarland , G. Megias , K. Niewczas , L. Pickering , J. Sobczyk , L. Thompson , C. Wret

Inclusive neutrino-nucleus cross sections are calculated using a consistent relativistic mean-field theoretical framework. The weak lepton-hadron interaction is expressed in the standard current-current form, the nuclear ground state is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-02-26 N. Paar , D. Vretenar , T. Marketin , P. Ring

We evaluate the neutral current quasi-elastic neutrino cross section within two nuclear models: the SuSA model, based on the superscaling behavior of electron scattering data, and the RMF model, based on relativistic mean field theory. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-01-27 R. Gonzalez-Jimenez , M. V. Ivanov , M. B. Barbaro , J. A. Caballero , J. M. Udias

We present a full kinematic analysis of neutrino-nucleus charged current quasielastic interactions based on the Local Fermi Gas model and the Random PhaseApproximation. The model was implemented in the NEUT Monte Carlo framework, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 Bruno Bourguille , Juan Nieves , Federico Sanchez

An accurate description of the nuclear response functions for neutrino scattering in the Gev region is essential for the interpretation of present and future neutrino oscillation experiments. Due to the close similarity of electromagnetic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-02-25 Maria B. Barbaro

We illustrate the connection between electron and neutrino scattering off nuclei and show how the former process can be used to constrain the description of the latter. After reviewing some of the nuclear models commonly used to study…

This article reviews our present knowledge of neutrino interactions with nucleons and discusses the interactions with nuclei, the target material of all presently running and planned long-baseline experiments. I emphasize descriptions of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Ulrich Mosel

For the operation of precision neutrino experiments, the understanding of neutrino interactions with matter is a preconditioned requirement for all detections and measurements of neutrinos. The largest uncertainties in estimating…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-16 Lars Bathe-Peters

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…

The superscaling approach is applied to studies of neutral current neutrino reactions in the quasielastic regime. Using input from scaling analyses of electron scattering data, predictions for high-energy neutrino and antineutrino cross…

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

A set of comparisons among neutrino interaction experiments (MiniBooNE, MINERvA, T2K, and MicroBooNE) is presented. This gives a broad view of the field of neutrino-nucleus interactions. The emphasis is on charged current inclusive,…

The reduced cross section of the semiexclusive $(l,l'p)$ lepton scat tering process irrespective of the type of interaction is determined mainly by bound nucleon momentum distribution in target and nucleon final state interaction with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 A. V. Butkevich , S. V. Luchuk

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 compare the charged-current quasielastic neutrino and antineutrino observables obtained in two different nuclear models, the phenomenological SuperScaling Approximation and the Relativistic Mean Field approach, with the recent data…

The treatment of nuclear effects in neutrino-nucleus interactions is one of the main sources of systematic uncertainty for the analysis and interpretation of data of neutrino oscillation experiments. Neutrinos interact with nuclei via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Carlotta Giusti , Martin V. Ivanov

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

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

We discuss the calculations for several neutrino induced reactions from low energies to the GeV region. Special attention is paid to nuclear corrections when the targets are medium or heavy nuclei. Finally, we present several ratios of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 E. A. Paschos

We describe the implementation of a model for charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE) neutrino-nucleus scattering in the NEUT Monte Carlo event generator. This model employs relativistic momentum distributions obtained from mean field theory…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-25 J. McKean , R. González-Jiménez , M. Kabirnezhad , J. M. Udías , Y. Uchida