Speaker
Tina Leitner
(Universitaet Giessen)
Description
Neutrino oscillations and nuclear physics are closely connected. Current
investigations of long baseline experiments like MiniBooNE, K2K and T2K
address questions such as what are the mass-differences, what are the
values of the mixing angles, but also search for CP violation in
neutrino interactions. A critical quantity is the neutrino energy which
is directly related to the oscillation parameters. It cannot be measured
but has to be reconstructed from the detected particles. Since all
present experiments use nuclear targets, the final particle yields are
influenced by the nuclear medium and in particular by final-state
interactions. On the basis of state of the art coupled channel transport
calculations we will discuss the importance of nuclear effects for
oscillation experiments and give various examples, in particular we will
address the question of energy reconstruction.
Supported by DFG.
Author
Tina Leitner
(Universitaet Giessen)
Co-author
Ulrich Mosel
(Universitaet Giessen)
