Neutrino–Nucleus Interactions in the Standard Model and Beyond

12 May 2025, 09:00 → 23 May 2025, 21:00 Europe/Berlin

2413/2-430 - MITP Seminar Room (MITP - Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Accurate predictions of neutrino–nucleus interaction cross-sections are essential for current and upcoming precision neutrino experiments, but right now these predictions suffer from large uncertainties. Reducing these uncertainties is highly desirable to maximally exploit the data from current and future neutrino experiments, and in addition, will improve our understanding of hadronic and nuclear structure.

As modern neutrino experiments cover a vast range of energies, from MeV to EeV, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Instead, different regimes need to be disentangled and treated separately. The goal of this scientific program is to discuss progress in this endeavor and its implications for particle physics and astrophysics.

The topics we plan to discuss include, but are not limited to: quasi-elastic scattering, two-particle–two-hole events, resonance production, deep-inelastic scattering, Monte Carlo event generators, connections to astrophysics, and relevance for physics beyond the Standard Model.

 

Organizers

Vedran Brdar

Joachim Kopp

Noemi Rocco

Event Pictures Gruppenfoto_NISMB2025.JPG

Monday 12 May

09:00 → 10:00 Check-in at MITP

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:05 Welcome by MITP director

11:05 → 12:05 NuWro – recent updates and FSI reweighting scheme

Speaker: Jan Sobczyk

NuWro-Mainz-2025-1.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:00 Towards neutrino-nucleus scattering with coupled-cluster theory

Speaker: Sonia Bacca (JGU)

bacca_MITPneutrino_2025.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 Discussion

Tuesday 13 May

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Electroweak processes with quantum Monte Carlo methods

Speaker: Garrett King

20250513-king-mainz.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:00 Electrons for Neutrinos

Speaker: Adi Ashkenazi

250513_MITP.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 Discussion

Wednesday 14 May

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 The impact of cross sections on physics searches

Speaker: Shirley Li

MITP_Li.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:00 Pion production on the nucleus: a big mess and a nice opportunity

Speaker: Raul Gonzalez-Jimenez

RGJ_MITP.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 Discussion

Thursday 15 May

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Lepton-Nucleus Scattering within Quantum Monte Carlo Approaches

Speaker: Alessandro Lovato

Lovato_Mainz_2025.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:00 From Precision in Oscillation Searches to Discovery: Neutrino Mass Ordering, CP Violation, and Beyond

Speaker: Ivan Martinez Soler

TalkV2_IMS.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 Discussion

Friday 16 May

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:30 Efficient Monte-Carlo event generation for neutrino-nucleus exclusive Distorted-wave cross sections

Speaker: Mathias El Baz

CCQE_NF_MC_Generator_MITP_seminar.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

Monday 19 May

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Interactions of accelerated dark matter with nuclei: what can we learn from neutrinos?

Speaker: Helena Kolesova

Mainz_Kolesova.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:00 From inclusive to exclusive processes

Speaker: Alexis Nikolakopoulos

MITP_2025.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 Discussion

Tuesday 20 May

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 The SIREN Toolkit for Neutrino Physics Within and Beyond the Standard Model

Speaker: Nicholas Kamp

NuNucleus@Mainz_2025.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:00 Electron Scattering in NEUT / Nuclear Deexcitation

Speaker: Seisho Abe

MITP_250520_v2.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Response functions from a Chebyshev expansion

Speaker: Immo Reis

talk_mitp.pdf

16:30 → 17:30 Discussion

Wednesday 21 May

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Advancing Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Physics for Precision Oscillation Studies: Insights from MicroBooNE

Speaker: Xin Qian

MicroBooNE_Xs_Mainz.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:00 High-energy neutrino interactions (challenges)

Speaker: Alfonso Garcia Soto

mainz.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 Discussion

Thursday 22 May

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 DIS and SIS in neutrino scattering

Speaker: Mary Hall Reno

MITP-SIS-DIS-Reno.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:00 Machine Learning Neutrino-Nucleus Cross Sections

Speaker: Daniel Hackett

hackett-nismb-ml4nu.pdf

16:00 → 16:15 Predictions for dimuon production in high-energy neutrino-proton collisions using the color dipole model

Speaker: Edgar Huayra

MITP_nu_Edgar.pdf

16:15 → 17:00 Discussion

Friday 23 May

09:30 → 10:30 Implementation of the new MEC model in NuWro

Speaker: Hemant Prasad

NISMB-2025_Hemant.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 TBA

Speaker: Graham Chambers-Wall

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch