jose udias
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
5/19/09, 3:00 PM
CC and NC quasi-elastic scattering
Talk
A review of quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering will be presented, with emphasis on bringing together the knowledge (and language) of neutrino physics, electron scattering, and nuclear structure communities. Assumptions commonly made which simplify the theoretical calculations will be examined. Finally, an attempt will be made to identify places where improvement from either theoretical...
Dr
Mark Dorman
(University College London)
5/19/09, 3:35 PM
CC and NC quasi-elastic scattering
Talk
We present preliminary results from a quasielastic enhanced sample of neutrino-iron interactions observed by the MINOS Near Detector in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab. From a shape fit to the Q2 distribution for these events we extract a value for the effective axial-vector mass MA which best describes that distribution. We discuss the very low Q2 behavior of this sample and the most...
Teppei Katori
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
5/19/09, 4:00 PM
CC and NC quasi-elastic scattering
Talk
The mini-Booster neutrino experiment (MiniBooNE) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) is designed to search for \nu_mu to nu_e appearance neutrino oscillations. Muon neutrino charged current quasielastic (CCQE) interactions make up roughly 40% of our data sample, and are used to constrain the background and cross sections for the oscillation analysis.
Using high-statistics...
