Open Meeting for the Hyper-Kamiokande Project

Irreducible Cross-Section Uncertainties for Electron Neutrino Appearance?

22 Aug 2012, 15:00

20m

Lecture Hall (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), The University of Tokyo)

Hyper-K Physics Potential

Speaker

Kevin McFarland (University of Rochester)

Description

The usual strategy for controlling systematic uncertainties due to neutrino interactions in oscillation experiments is to use the same beam, or data from other experiments, to constrain those uncertainties. In this brief discussion, I point out a few limitations in this technique that may be problematic for oscillation physics in the high precision era, and I will suggest some possible remedies.

Presentation materials

Slides

Irreducible_Systematics_from_Neutrino_Interactions.pdf