Ab-initio calculations of neutrino-nucleus interactions
ORAL · Invited
Abstract
An accurate description of neutrino interactions with nuclei is critical for the success of current and planned neutrino-oscillation experiments. I will present quantum Monte Carlo calculations, based on Green’s function Monte Carlo methods, of neutrino-12C inclusive scattering induced by neutral- and charged-current interactions. These calculations are based on realistic treatments of nuclear interactions and currents, the latter including the axial-, vector-, and vector-axial interference terms crucial for determining the difference between neutrino and anti-neutrino scattering and the CP-violating phase. The role of two-nucleon processes induced by correlation effects and electroweak currents will be discussed in detail.
*This research is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under contracts DE-AC02-06CH11357, DE-AC52-06NA25396, DE-AC05-06OR23177, and by the NUCLEI Sci- DAC and LANL LDRD programs. Under an award of computer time provided by the INCITE program, this research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.
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Presenters
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Alessandro Lovato
- Argonne National Laboratory, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- Argonne National Laboratory