Experimental Seminar

Quasi-elastic scattering at MINERvA

by Laura Johanna Fields (Northwestern University)

US/Pacific
Kavli Meeting Room - room 305 (SLAC)

Kavli Meeting Room - room 305

SLAC

Building 51
Description
High precision measurements of neutrino interaction cross-sections are crucial to current and future neutrino oscillation experiments that hope to measure CP violation. The MINERvA experiment at Fermilab was designed to make many such measurements. The MINERvA collaboration recently published its first studies of quasi-elastic scattering, one of the most important channels for oscillation experiments. We find evidence of nuclear effects that are similar to those observed in electron-nucleus scattering but are not included in many standard neutrino event generators. These results and prospects for future cross-section measurements at MINERvA will be discussed.
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