Many-Body Theory of the Electroweak Nuclear Response

Abstract

After a brief review of the theoretical description of nuclei based on nonrelativistic many-body theory and realistic hamiltonians, these lectures focus on its application to the analysis of the electroweak response. Special emphasis is given to electron-nucleus scattering, whose experimental study has provided a wealth of information on nuclear structure and dynamics, exposing the limitations of the shell model. The extension of the formalism to the case of neutrino-nucleus interactions, whose quantitative understanding is required to reduce the systematic uncertainty of neutrino oscillation experiments, is also discussed.

Lectures delivered at the DAE-BRNS Workshop on Hadron Physics. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India), February 18-23, 2008

References in corpus (8)

• Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Light Nuclei
• Inclusive quasi-elastic electron-nucleus scattering
• Electron- and neutrino-nucleus scattering in the impulse approximation regime
• New empirical fits to the proton electromagnetic form factors
• Total neutrino and antineutrino nuclear cross sections around 1 GeV
• Estimates of the uncertainties associated with models of the nucleon structure functions in the $\Delta$ production region
• Final-state interactions in the response of nuclear matter
• Inclusive electron spectrum in the region of pion production in electron-nucleus scattering and the effect of the quasi-elastic interaction