Oct 2025 - Sep 2026

Theoretical foundations for modern neutrino event generation

by Zara Graham-Jones

Europe/London
Description
With the advent of new neutrino experiments, such as DUNE and Hyper-K, we are coming into an exciting era of increasingly accurate neutrino data. Therefore, in order to makes sense of this data, we need increasingly accurate theory calculations and predictions, which will need to be supplemented by detailed numerical calculations. For neutrino collisions, the focus will be on using and implementing state of the art form factors and theoretically consistent vertex structures into neutrino event generators. In this talk I will investigate some of the theory behind neutrino-nucleon collisions, from a lens of chiral perturbation theory, and then expand this to single pion production and delta resonance structures. This is followed by an overview of current neutrino event generation techniques, and their limitations.