Neutrino Long-Baseline Experiments and Nuclear Physics
- Resource Type
- Working Paper
- Authors
- Mosel, Ulrich
- Source
- Nuclear Physics News, Volume 29, 2019 - Issue 4
- Subject
- Nuclear Theory
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
- Language
The extraction of neutrino properties from long-baseline experiments such as T2K, NOvA and DUNE requires a good description of the initial neutrino-nucleon interaction. Since the targets in all running or planned experiments are nuclei (C12, O16, Ar40) the extraction also requires a reliable description of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions that become essential during the final state interactions of the neutrino-nucleus reactions. This article presents a short introduction into these problems for a non-expert readership. It also stresses that a generator that implements state-of-the-art methods of nuclear structure and reactions is still needed for these state-of-the-art experiments.