Charge-changing and Neutral Current Neutrino Interactions with Nuclei
Recent progress in modeling CC and NC neutrino reactions with nuclei at both low and high energies will be summarized. Various issues will be discussed: the importance of relativistic modeling for high-energy reactions; the delicate interplay of the necessary contributions in the relevant kinematic regions (quasielastic (QE), meson-exchange current (MEC) and inelastic contributions); the critical role played by validating modeling through comparisons with inclusive electron scattering, including the most recent tests of the so-called SuSAv2-MEC approach versus a large set of data spanning energies from a few 100 MeV to several GeV; the general formalism for semi-inclusive CC neutrino reactions; the special role that can be played by studies of CC neutrino reactions on deuterium; coherent NC neutrino scattering and its close relationship with elastic parity-violating electron scattering from nuclei.
Friday, 29 April 2016, ore 14:30 — Sala Wataghin