How much nuclear physics do we need, to understand the neutrino nucleus cross section ?

Abstract

Over the past two decades, electron scattering experiments have clearly exposed the limits of the independent particle model description of atomic nuclei. I will briefly outline the dynamics leading to the appearance of strong correlation effects, and their impact on the electroweak nuclear cross sections in the impulse approximation regime.

Comments: Lectures at the 45th Winter School in Theoretical Physics "Neutrino Interactions: from Theory to Monte Carlo Simulations", Ladek-Zdroj, Poland, February 2-11, 2009