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In neutrino oscillation experiments, neutrino interactions at the detector are simulated using event generators which attempt to reflect our understanding of nuclear physics. We study the impact of different neutrino interactions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Pilar Coloma , Patrick Huber , Chun-Min Jen , Camillo Mariani

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 present a discussion of models of nuclear effects used to describe an inclusive electron-nucleus scattering in the quasielastic (QE) peak region, aiming to compare them and draw conclusion of their reliability when applied in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Joanna Ewa Sobczyk

Accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments seek to make precision measurements of the neutrino flavor oscillations muon (anti)neutrino to electron (anti)neutrino in order to determine the mass hierarchy of neutrinos and to search for CP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-15 Melanie Day , Kevin S. McFarland

The neutrino-induced charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE, $\nu_l+n\to l^-+p$ or $\bar\nu_l+p\to l^++n$) interaction is the most abundant interaction around 1 GeV, and it is the most fundamental channel to study neutrino oscillations.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-04-28 Joseph Grange , Teppei Katori

Understanding nuclear effects is essential for improving the sensitivity of neutrino oscillation measurements. Validating nuclear models solely through neutrino scattering data is challenging due to limited statistics and the broad energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 Seisho Abe

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

The MINER$\nu$A experiment investigates neutrino interactions with nucleons needed for an understanding of electroweak interactions of hadrons. Since nuclear targets are being used many-body effects may affect the extracted cross sections…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-13 U. Mosel , O. Lalakulich , K. Gallmeister

We investigate the potential to probe new neutrino physics with future experiments measuring coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. Experiments with high statistics should become feasible soon and allow to constrain parameters with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Manfred Lindner , Werner Rodejohann , Xun-Jie Xu

The excitation of two particle-two hole final states in neutrino-nucleus scattering, not taken into account in Monte Carlo simulations for data analysis, has been advocated by many authors as the source of the excess cross section observed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-05 Omar Benhar , Alessandro Lovato , Noemi Rocco

The study of neutrino interactions has recently experienced a renaissance, motivated by the fact that neutrino oscillation experiments depend critically on an accurate models of neutrino interactions. These models have to predict not only…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-10 Deborah A. Harris

Neutrino-oscillation experiments performed in the few-GeV energy region create an urgent demand for a significant improvement in the accuracy of modeling of neutrino interactions with atomic nuclei. Here, we report an updated implementation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-15 Artur M. Ankowski , Rwik Dharmapal Banerjee , Jan T. Sobczyk , José L. Bonilla , Krzysztof M. Graczyk , Beata E. Kowal , Hemant Prasad

We derive fully general expressions for the inclusive (anti-)neutrino-induced nuclear quasielastic production of a strange or charmed baryon $Y$, considering all dimension-six new physics operators relevant to the semileptonic $q\to q'\ell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-23 E. Hernández , J. Nieves , J. E. Sobczyk

The theoretical formalism of inclusive lepton-nucleus scattering in the two-nucleon emission channel is discussed in the context of a simplified approach, the modified convolution approximation. This allows one to write the 2p2h responses…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 I. Ruiz Simo , J. E. Amaro , M. B. Barbaro , J. A. Caballero , G. D. Megias , T. W. Donnelly

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

We have extended our model for charged current neutrino-nucleus interactions to neutral current reactions. For the elementary neutrino-nucleon interaction, we take into account quasielastic scattering, Delta excitation and the excitation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Leitner , L. Alvarez-Ruso , U. Mosel

A previous model on inclusive charged-current quasi-elastic nuclear reactions is extended to include neutral- and charged-current nucleon emission reactions. The problem of outgoing nucleon propagation is treated by means of a Monte Carlo…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 J. Nieves , M. Valverde , M. J. Vicente-Vacas

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

We estimate the theoretical uncertainties of the model developed in Phys. Rev. C70 055503 for inclusive quasielastic charged-current neutrino-nucleus reactions at intermediate energies. Besides we quantify the deviations of the predictions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Valverde , J. E. Amaro , J. Nieves