NTN Workshop on Neutrino Non-Standard Interactions

Session

Session 8

30 May 2019, 16:00

Washington University in St Louis

Conveners

Session 8

• Chair: Peter Denton (Brookhaven National Lab)

5. Octant of theta23 and NSI degeneracy at DUNE

Sabya Sachi Chatterjee (Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University)

30/05/2019, 16:00

We expound in detail the degeneracy between the octant of θ23 and flavor-changing neutral-current non-standard interactions (NSI’s) in neutrino propagation, considering DUNE as a case study. In the presence of such NSI parameters involving the e − µ (εeµ) and e − τ (εeτ) flavors, the νµ → νe and νµ → νe bar appearance probabilities in long-baseline experiments acquire an additional...

9. Beginnings of Quantum Monte Carlo Short-Time Approximation Implementations for electron and neutrino scattering from He4 and C12 in GENIE

Joshua Barrow (The University of Tennessee, FNAL)

30/05/2019, 16:45

The study of inclusive neutrino ($\nu$) cross sections and total fluxes for signs of (beyond) Standard Model interactions is critically dependent upon accurate theoretical modeling for consistent reconstruction of a $\nu$'s energy. Given the continuum of final state topologies available to such processes, the most popular form of this modeling within the experimental community generally occurs...

7. Liquid Argon Technology for Theorists

Shirley Li (SLAC)

30/05/2019, 17:30

Available estimates for the energy resolution of DUNE vary by as much as a factor of four. To address this controversy, and to connect the resolution to the underlying physical processes, we build an independent simulation pipeline for neutrino events in liquid argon, combining the public tools GENIE and FLUKA. Using this pipeline, we first characterize the channels of non-hermeticity of DUNE,...