Neutrino-Long-Baseline Experiments and Nuclear Physics

TL;DR

This paper reviews how neutrino long-baseline experiments use nuclear targets and discusses recent findings on neutrino-nucleus interactions, emphasizing their importance for accurate neutrino energy reconstruction and oscillation parameter extraction.

Contribution

It provides new insights into quasielastic scattering and pion production processes relevant at around 1 GeV neutrino energy, impacting neutrino energy reconstruction methods.

Findings

Results on quasielastic scattering and pion production at 1 GeV.

Implications for neutrino energy reconstruction.

Understanding of reaction mechanisms affecting oscillation measurements.

Abstract

Neutrino long-baseline experiments nowadays all use nuclear targets. The extraction of neutrino oscillation parameters from such experiments requires a good understanding of the interaction of neutrinos with nuclei. In this talk we discuss results on quasielastic scattering and pion production which are the relevant processes in the neutrino energy regime around 1 GeV. We also discuss implications of the reaction mechanisms for the reconstruction of the neutrino energy which is not known a priori.