Physics Colloquium : "Nu, are we there yet?"

Date: 
Mon, 20/05/202412:00-13:30
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Location: 
Levin building, Lecture Hall No. 8
Lecturer: 
Adi Ashkenazi (TAU)

The ability of next generation accelerator based neutrino oscillation
measurements, such as DUNE, to reach their desired sensitivity and
provide new insight into the nature of our Universe, requires a
high-level of understanding of the neutrino-nucleus interactions.
These include precise estimation of the relevant cross sections and
the reconstruction of the incident neutrino energy from the measured
final state particles. Incomplete understanding of these interactions
can skew the reconstructed neutrino spectrum and thereby bias the
extraction of fundamental oscillation parameters and searches for new
physics.

The Tel Aviv Neutrino Group aims to improve and constrain
neutrino-nuclei interaction models and their uncertainty estimation.
By exploiting the similarity of electron- and neutrino-nucleus
interactions, we leverages wide phase-space exclusive electron
scattering data with known beam energies as well as neutrino
scattering data in the same energy region and on similar nuclear
targets, to test energy reconstruction methods and interaction models.
In addition we explore the possibility to detecting neutrons in Liquid
Argon detectors to ensure we account for their energy.