Speaker
Prof.
Giulia Ricciardi
(Dipartimento di fisica Pancini,Università di Napoli Federico II)
Description
We discuss as accurately as possible the cross section of quasi-elastic scattering of electron (anti-)neutrinos on nucleons, also known as inverse beta decay in the case of antineutrinos. We focus on the moderate energy range from a few MeV up to hundreds of MeV, which includes neutrinos from reactors and supernovae. We assess the uncertainty on the cross section, which is relevant to experimental advances and increasingly large statistical samples. We estimate the effects of second-class currents, showing that they are small and negligible for current applications.
Primary author
Prof.
Giulia Ricciardi
(Dipartimento di fisica Pancini,Università di Napoli Federico II)
