The NEUT neutrino interaction simulation program library

is a neutrino–nucleus interaction simulation program library. It can be used to simulate interactions for neutrinos with between 100 MeV and a few TeV of energy. is also capable of simulating hadron interactions within a nucleus and is used to model nucleon decay and hadron–nucleus interactions for particle propagation in detector simulations. This article describes the range of interactions modelled and how each is implemented.

Kaonic Atoms to Investigate Global Symmetry Breaking

Kaonic atoms measure the antikaon-nucleus interaction at almost zero relative energy, allowing one to determine basic low-energy quantum chromodynamics (QCD) quantities, namely, the antikaon-nucleon ( K ¯ N) scattering lengths. The latter are important for extracting the sigma terms which are built on the symmetry breaking part of the Hamiltonian, thereby providing a measure of chiral and SU(3) symmetries breaking. After discussing the sigma terms and their relations to the kaonic atoms, we describe the most precise measurement in the literature of kaonic hydrogen, performed at LNF-INFN by the SIDDHARTA experiment. Kaonic deuterium is still to be measured, and two experiments are planned. The first, SIDDHARTA-2 at LNF-INFN was installed on DA Φ NE in spring 2019 and will collect data in 2020. The second, E57 at J-PARC, will become operative in 2021.

Changes in quadrupole moments during nucleus–nucleus interaction

In this paper, we examine the distribution of nuclei’s charge (the quadrupole moment of nuclei) for stable nuclei with [Formula: see text] when interacting with the [Formula: see text]O nuclei. The interaction potential between the nuclei was achieved using the double-folding method. The wave functions of the interacting nuclei were replaced by the density functions in the double-folding model. The wave functions of the interacting nuclei were obtained through the D-dimensional Schrödinger equation with the pseudo-Coulomb potential plus ring-shaped potential by the Nikiforov–Uvarov solution method.