Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions

A dominant cause of systematic errors in neutrino oscillation measurements is our current lack of a good description of the neutrino-nucleus cross-section. Building on past experience within the Sheffield T2K group, the student will work on improving the description of neutrino-nucleus interactions in the simulations used in T2K and other neutrino experiments. This will involve developing an understanding of the physical processes involved and how they are implemented in the simulations, and using data from T2K and other neutrino experiments to tune the models to improve their description of the data.