Speaker
Dr
Jayden Newstead
(University of Melbourne)
Description
Neutrino sources with energy of $\mathcal{O}(10$ MeV) are an invaluable tool for studying neutrino interactions with nuclei - previously enabling the first measurement of coherent elastic scattering. Neutrinos (and potentially dark matter) in this energy range will also excite nuclei, giving us another physics channel to study. In this work we consider the inelastic nuclear scattering of neutrinos from a variety of targets of interest. To calculate the relevant cross sections we perform large scale nuclear shell model calculations using BIGSTICK. We find that some potentially interesting signals could be observed by future experiments.
Primary author
Dr
Jayden Newstead
(University of Melbourne)
