A phenomenological study of photon production in low energy neutrino nucleon scattering

TL;DR

This paper investigates photon production in low energy neutrino-nucleon scattering, analyzing radiative corrections and their implications for neutrino experiments, with detailed predictions of energy, angular distributions, and cross-sections.

Contribution

It provides a phenomenological analysis of radiative corrections in neutrino scattering, including energy and angular distributions, and discusses experimental signatures and uncertainties.

Findings

Derived energy and angular distributions for photon production

Predicted total cross-sections with estimated uncertainties

Comments on experimental detection and implications

Abstract

Low energy photon production is an important background to many current and future precision neutrino experiments. We present a phenomenological study of t-channel radiative corrections to neutral current neutrino nucleus scattering. After introducing the relevant processes and phenomenological coupling constants, we will explore the derived energy and angular distributions as well as total cross-section predictions along their estimated uncertainties. This is supplemented throughout with comments on possible experimental signatures and implications. We conclude with a general discussion of the analysis in the context of complimentary methodologies.