Neutrino reactions on oxygen and a proposed measurement of the Weinberg angle

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1 June 1988

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review C

Vol. 37 (6) , 2660-2664
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.37.2660

Abstract

A low-energy neutrino-electron elastic scattering experiment using an imaging water Cerenkov detector has been proposed to determine

\sin^{2}

θ_{W}

to an accuracy of about 1%. I discuss the nuclear physics complications that arise from charged-current reactions on oxygen isotopes.

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