Speaker
Vittorio Paolone
(University of Pittsburgh)
Description
The high resolution near detector for the LBNE/F experiment, in conjunction with the high intensity and broad
energy range of the LBNE/F beam, will allow to collect about 10^8 inclusive neutrino charged current (CC)
interactions with a bubble-chamber quality reconstruction. Precision measurements of cross-sections
for several exclusive processes and of structure functions (F_T, F_2, F_3, R) of nucleon and nuclei are planned.
One key feature of the experimental program is the availability of several nuclear targets including
polypropylene (C3H6)n, C, Ar, Ca, Fe, H2O, D2O, etc. which will allow model-independent measurements
of nuclear effects in neutrino interactions. From a statistical subtraction of the C target from the
polypropylene (C3H6)n one we will obtain interactions on free proton. The use of both neutrino and
anti-neutrino beams on such a free proton target will allow a direct measurement of the free
neutron structure functions, as well as the determination of the d/u ratio at large values of Bjorken x.
Author
Vittorio Paolone
(University of Pittsburgh)
Co-author
Roberto Petti
(University of South Carolina (US))
