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Background: The most significant source of background in direct dark matter searches are neutrons that scatter elastically from nuclei in the detector's sensitive volume. Experimental data for the elastic scattering cross section of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 S. MacMullin , M. Kidd , R. Henning , W. Tornow , C. R. Howell , M. Brown

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…

The precise measurement of neutrino properties is among the highest priorities in fundamental particle physics, involving many experiments worldwide. Since the experiments rely on the interactions of neutrinos with bound nucleons inside…

Current and planned neutrino oscillation experiments operate in the 0.1-10 GeV energy regime. At these energies, the neutrino cross section is not well understood: a variety of interaction processes are possible and nuclear effects play a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-03-25 Callum Wilkinson

Superscaling analyses of few-GeV inclusive electron scattering from nuclei are extended to include not only quasielastic processes, but now also into the region where $\Delta$-excitation dominates. It is shown that, with reasonable…

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

Rates of coherent neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering at a high-intensity stopped-pion neutrino source in various detector materials (relevant for novel low-threshold detectors) are calculated. Sensitivity of a coherent neutrino-nucleus…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Kate Scholberg

Monoenergetic muon neutrinos at 236 MeV are readily produced in intense medium-energy proton facilities ($\gtrsim$2-3~GeV) when a positive kaon decays at rest (KDAR; $K^+ \rightarrow \mu^+ \nu_\mu$). These neutrinos provide a unique…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-15 Alexis Nikolakopoulos , Vishvas Pandey , Joshua Spitz , Natalie Jachowicz

The sensitivity of nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering observables to the off-shell structure of nucleon-nucleon t-matrices, derived from realistic NN potentials, is investigated within the context of a full-folding model based on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. P. Weppner , Ch. Elster , D. Hueber

Charged-current neutrino-nucleus scattering is studied in the quasielastic region with the KIDS (Korea-IBS-Daegu-SKKU) nuclear energy density functional. We focus on the uncertainties stemming from the axial mass and the in-medium effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 Kyungsik Kim , Hana Gil , Chang Ho Hyun

We carry out a relativistic calculation of the cross sections of electron-16O and -12C quasi-elastic scattering and quasi-free Delta production and compare with the (e,e') data systematically in the wide energy range of 0.5 - 1.5 GeV. Using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Hiroki Nakamura , Ryoichi Seki , Makoto Sakuda

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

Neutrino-nucleus reactions cross sections, obtained for neutrino energies in the range $\varepsilon_{\nu}\leq 100-120$ MeV (low- and intermediate-energy range), which refer to promising neutrino detection targets of current terrestrial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-03 J. Sinatkas , V. Tsaktsara , Odysseas Kosmas

We probe dark matter-electron scattering using high-energy neutrino observations from the Sun. Dark matter (DM) interacting with electrons can get captured inside the Sun. These captured DM may annihilate to produce different Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-21 Tarak Nath Maity , Akash Kumar Saha , Sagnik Mondal , Ranjan Laha

Neutrino-electron scattering is a purely leptonic fundamental interaction and therefore provides an important channel to test the Standard Model, especially at the low energy-momentum transfer regime. We derived constraints on neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-03-08 M. Deniz , B. Sevda , S. Kerman , A. Ajjaq , L. Singh , H. T. Wong , M. Zeyrek

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

Next generation high-precision neutrino scattering experiments have the goal of measuring the as-of-yet unknown parameters governing neutrino oscillation. This effort is hampered by the use of large nuclear targets: secondary interactions…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-12 Aaron S. Meyer

In neutrino oscillation experiments, exclusive measurements of neutrino-nucleus interactions play a critical role, by providing the theoretical and experimental input needed for a reliable estimation of the neutrino energy. In this paper,…

We consider elastic antineutrino-electron scattering taking into account possible effects of neutrino masses and mixing and of neutrino magnetic moments and electric dipole moments. Having in mind antineutrinos produced in a nuclear reactor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Grimus , P. Stockinger

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…