Probing free nucleons with (anti)neutrinos
We discuss a method to study free protons and neutrons using ν(ν¯)-hydrogen (H) Charged Current (CC) inelastic interactions, together with various precision tests of the isospin (charge) symmetry using ν and ν¯ CC interactions on both H and nuclear targets. Probing free nucleons with (anti)neutrinos...
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| description | We discuss a method to study free protons and neutrons using ν(ν¯)-hydrogen (H) Charged Current (CC) inelastic interactions, together with various precision tests of the isospin (charge) symmetry using ν and ν¯ CC interactions on both H and nuclear targets. Probing free nucleons with (anti)neutrinos provides information about their partonic structure, as well as a crucial input for the modeling of ν(ν¯)-nucleus (A) interactions. Such measurements concurrently represent a valuable tool to address the main limitations of accelerator-based neutrino scattering experiments on nuclear targets, originating from the combined effect of the unknown (anti)neutrino energy and of the nuclear smearing. To this end, we present a method to impose constraints on nuclear effects and calibrate the (anti)neutrino energy scale in ν(ν¯)-A interactions, which are two outstanding systematic uncertainties affecting present and future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-57723f4851ff428aab85a61490145f562022-12-22T04:07:19ZengElsevierPhysics Letters B0370-26932022-11-01834137469Probing free nucleons with (anti)neutrinosR. Petti0Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USAWe discuss a method to study free protons and neutrons using ν(ν¯)-hydrogen (H) Charged Current (CC) inelastic interactions, together with various precision tests of the isospin (charge) symmetry using ν and ν¯ CC interactions on both H and nuclear targets. Probing free nucleons with (anti)neutrinos provides information about their partonic structure, as well as a crucial input for the modeling of ν(ν¯)-nucleus (A) interactions. Such measurements concurrently represent a valuable tool to address the main limitations of accelerator-based neutrino scattering experiments on nuclear targets, originating from the combined effect of the unknown (anti)neutrino energy and of the nuclear smearing. To this end, we present a method to impose constraints on nuclear effects and calibrate the (anti)neutrino energy scale in ν(ν¯)-A interactions, which are two outstanding systematic uncertainties affecting present and future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269322006037 |
| spellingShingle | R. Petti Probing free nucleons with (anti)neutrinos Physics Letters B |
| title | Probing free nucleons with (anti)neutrinos |
| title_full | Probing free nucleons with (anti)neutrinos |
| title_fullStr | Probing free nucleons with (anti)neutrinos |
| title_full_unstemmed | Probing free nucleons with (anti)neutrinos |
| title_short | Probing free nucleons with (anti)neutrinos |
| title_sort | probing free nucleons with anti neutrinos |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269322006037 |
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