Nucleon axial-vector form factor and radius from future neutrino experiments

Roberto Petti, Richard J. Hill, Oleksandr Tomalak

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Abstract

Precision measurements of antineutrino elastic scattering on hydrogen from future neutrino experiments offer a unique opportunity to access the low-energy structure of protons and neutrons. We discuss the determination of the nucleon axial-vector form factor and radius from antineutrino interactions on hydrogen that can be collected at the future Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility and study the sources of theoretical and experimental uncertainties. The projected accuracy would improve existing measurements by 1 order of magnitude and be competitive with contemporary lattice-QCD determinations, potentially helping to resolve the corresponding tension with measurements from (anti)neutrino elastic scattering on deuterium. We find that the current knowledge of the nucleon vector form factors could be one of the dominant sources of uncertainty. We also evaluate the constraints that can be simultaneously obtained on the absolute ν¯μ flux normalization.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberL051301
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume109
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2024

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  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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