Neutrino interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei
Prof. Ulrich Mosel (Universität Gießen)

Neutrino Interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei The extraction of neutrino properties from long-baseline experiments requires the knowledge of the incoming neutrino energy. The latter, however, is usually known only within a wide (often many GeV) range.The energy thus has to be reconstructed from observed properties of the final state. This reconstruction is possible for a nucleon target if the elementary nucleon-interactions are known. All of the presently ongoing (NOvA, T2K) and planned (DUNE) experiments, however, use nuclear targets such as Carbon or Argon so that neutrino-nucleus interactions and, in particular, nuclear final state interactions affect the observed signal and complicate the energy reconstruction. In this talk I will review what we presently know about the interactions of a neutrino with nucleons and nuclei. I will then discuss how these interactions affect the experimental observables in long-baseline experiments.