21–23 Sep 2020
US/Central timezone

Radiative corrections in neutrino scattering

22 Sep 2020, 11:20
10m

Speaker

Oleksandr Tomalak (University of Kentucky)

Description

Neutrino physics is reaching a percent level precision and account for radiative corrections is a necessary step in modern and future accelerator-based experiments. We introduce and calculate radiative corrections in neutrino physics. Firstly, neutrino-electron scattering provides a clean tool to constrain the neutrino flux. We provide the most precise up-to-date prediction for neutrino-electron scattering cross sections quantifying errors for the first time to be of order $0.2-0.4~\%$. Secondly, neutrino-nucleon charged-current quasielastic scattering is one of the signal processes, the best tool for neutrino energy reconstruction, studies of the internal nucleon structure, and flux determinations. We study form factors and radiative corrections to this process.

Primary authors

Oleksandr Tomalak (University of Kentucky) Richard Hill

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