PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 341 - The 20th International Workshop on Neutrinos (NuFACT2018) - Poster Sessions
Modeling neutrino-nucleus interactions in the few-GeV region
K. Niewczas*, N. Jachowicz, A. Nikolakopoulos, J. Nys, R. Gonzalez-Jimenez, V. Pandey and N. Van Dessel
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Pre-published on: November 14, 2019
Published on: December 12, 2019
Abstract
A good understanding of neutrino-nucleus scattering mechanisms is essential to reduce the systematic errors in neutrino oscillation experiments. The Ghent group focuses on providing a consistent description of this process in the intermediate energy region. We describe the low energy response with collective nuclear excitations and the quasielastic peak using a Hartree-Fock-CRPA (continuum random phase approximation) model that takes into account nuclear long-range correlations as well as hadronic final--state interactions. The two-body current mechanisms, which are especially important in the region between the quasielastic and the delta-resonance peak, are included through short-range correlations and meson-exchange currents, treated within the same mean-field based model. Our description of intermediate-energy neutrino-nucleus scattering is completed by modeling neutrino-induced pion production. For that, we consider the dominant contribution from the decay of the delta and higher-mass resonances as well as other terms required by chiral symmetry, working in a fully relativistic formalism with a refined treatment of nuclear effects.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.341.0031
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