2012/11/08 by U. Mosel, Mosel, U., O. Lalakulich +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Neutrino Physics Research #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1211.1977
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Interactions of neutrinos with nuclei in the energy ranges relevant for the MiniBooNE, T2K, NOνA, MINERνA and MINOS experiments are discussed. It is stressed that any theoretical treatment must involve all the relevant reaction mechanisms: quasielastic scattering, pion production and DIS. In addition, also many-body interactions play a role. In this talk we show how a misidentification of the reaction mechanism can affect the energy reconstruction. We also discuss how the newly measured pion production cross sections, as reported recently by the MiniBooNE collaboration, can be related to the old cross sections obtained on elementary targets. The MiniBooNE data seem to be compatible only with the old BNL data. Even then crucial features of the nucleon-pion-Delta interaction are missing in the experimental pion kinetic energy spectra. We also discuss the meson production processes at the higher energies of the NOνA, MINERνA and MINOS experiments. Here final state interactions make it impossible to gain knowledge about the elementary reaction amplitudes. Finally, we briefly explore the problems due to inaccuracies in the energy reconstruction that LBL experiments face in their extraction of oscillation parameters.