Conveners
Parallel: WG 1x3
- Mark Scott (Imperial College London)
The phenomenon of neutrino oscillation is of great theoretical and experimental interest for our
understand of the nature of the neutrino and its implication for physics beyond the standard Model.
Currently available neutrino oscillation experiments can already constrain neutrino mixing parameters
with a confidence level up to 3 standard deviations ($\sigma$). However, it remains...
Accelerator-based neutrino experiments estimate neutrino fluxes using detailed simulations of their beamlines. Models of hadronic interactions of the primary beams with their target and secondary interactions are the dominant source of systematic uncertainty in modern flux predictions. The NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN is providing precise measurements that will constrain these...
EMPHATIC (Experiment to Measure the Production of Hadrons At a Test beam In
Chicagoland) is a table-top size experiment at Fermilab focused on hadron production measurements relevant to reducing the total neutrino flux uncertainties at accelerator-based neutrino experiments. The goals of the experiment include addressing the gaps in our understanding of hadron-scattering and the first-ever...
In accelerator-based neutrino experiments, uncertainties in neutrino flux represent a significant systematic uncertainty in baseline predictions for both near and far detectors, as well as in single-detector measurements such as neutrino cross sections and in Beyond Standard Model searches. These uncertainties stem from interaction models in the hadronic processes that follows the primary...