https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-025-01498-y
Regular Article
50 years of neutrino physics at Aligarh Muslim University
Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, 202002, Aligarh, India
Received:
30
September
2024
Accepted:
29
January
2025
Published online:
11
February
2025
An overview of the significant contributions made by the Aligarh group in the field of neutrino physics has been provided. The group’s work began with the study of quasielastic neutrino scattering on deuterium, specifically the process 
, focusing on moderate neutrino energies within the impulse approximation framework to analyze the early experiments at Argonne National Lab and Brookhaven National Lab with deuterium filled bubble chambers. These studies were later extended to numerically calculate (anti)neutrino interaction cross sections for the inclusive quasielastic scattering from nuclei using local density approximation (LDA), incorporating nucleon-nucleon correlations for moderate to heavy nuclear targets. The inelastic scattering cross sections for one pion production and the deep inelastic scattering from nuclei have been obtained using LDA with multi-nucleon correlation effects. In the case of single pion production, the final state interaction of the pions with the residual nucleus has also been taken into account. In addition, the group has explored other inelastic processes of kaon and eta meson production, in the (anti)neutrino interactions with the nucleon targets. Furthermore, we have investigated electron and positron scattering off proton targets in the intermediate energy range, focusing on polarization observables and T-noninvariance. Our research has also delved into polarized electron scattering to explore the possibility of observing parity-violating asymmetry in elastic and deep inelastic scattering, among other related topics. In the neutral current sector, we have also studied the quasielastic and inelastic 1
production to explore 
magnetic moment effects by comparing the weak and electromagnetic induced reactions. The group has also contributed to the study of atmospheric neutrino flux in the cosmic ray interactions, relevant for various sites of the neutrino oscillation experiments with atmospheric neutrinos.
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