https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611301010
Ab initio calculation of the electromagnetic and neutral-weak response functions of 4He and 12C
1 Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439,
2 INFN and Department of Physics, “Sapienza” University, I-00185 Roma, Italy
3 Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
4 Theory Center, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA 23606
5 Department of Physics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529
a e-mail: lovato@anl.gov
b e-mail: benhar@roma1.infn.it
Published online: 25 March 2016
Precise measurement of neutrino oscillations, and hence the determination of their masses demands a quantitative understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions. To this aim, two-body meson-exchange currents have to be accounted for along within realistic models of nuclear dynamics. We summarize our progresses towards the construction of a consistent framework, based on quantum Monte Carlo methods and on the spectral function approach, that can be exploited to accurately describe neutrino interactions with atomic nuclei over the broad kinematical region covered by neutrino experiments.
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