24–31 Jul 2009
Wayne State University
US/Eastern timezone

A phenomenological study of photon production in low energy neutrino nucleon scattering

28 Jul 2009, 17:30
15m
McGregor Center, Room J

McGregor Center, Room J

Wayne State University
Neutrino Physics Neutrino Physics II

Speaker

Dr James Jenkins (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Description

Low energy photon production is an important background to many current and future precision neutrino experiments. I present a phenomenological study of t-channel radiative corrections to neutral current neutrino nucleus scattering. After introducing the relevant processes and phenomenological coupling constants, I will explore the derived energy and angular distributions as well as total cross section predictions along with their estimated uncertainties. This is supplemented throughout with comments on possible experimental signatures and implications. I conclude with a general discussion of the analysis in the context of complimentary methodologies.

Author

Dr James Jenkins (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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