We review the physics potential for experiments with intense neutrino beams at the front–end of a muon storage ring, stressing the way the spin and flavour structure of neutrino interactions with matter can be used to shed light on the structure of the strong and electroweak interactions. Specifically, we discuss precision tests of the standard model, studies of polarized and unpolarized struct...

Experiments on deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) of charged leptons and neutrino remains an important source of information about the nucleon as well as about the nuclear structure. DIS experiments with neutrino beams 1,2 has reached now an accuracy comparable to that of experiments with charged leptons. Note in this respect that because of statistics reasons neutrino data are collected for heavy...

Neutrino scattering on atomic systems at low-energy transfer is a powerful tool for searching the neutrino electromagnetic interactions. The regime of coherent elastic neutrino-atom scattering, i.e., when atom recoils as pointlike particle, can be effectively fulfilled in case tritium antineutrinos. We present theoretical calculations processes such targets H, $^2$H, $^3$He, and $^4$He %, $^{12...

Neutrino-matter cross sections and interaction rates are central to the core-collapse supernova phenomenon and, very likely, to the viability of the explosion mechanism itself. In this paper, we describe the major neutrino scattering, absorption, and production processes that together influence the outcome of core collapse and the cooling of protoneutron stars. One focus is on energy redistribu...

Inclusive neutrino and antineutrino processes and the problem of the spin of proton * Abstract The inclusive NC and CC neutrino(antineutrino)-nucleus scattering for the case of a nucleus with isotopic spin equal to zero is considered. It is shown that the measurement of the neutrino-antineutrino asymmetry at relatively small energies could allow to obtain model-independent information about the...

In proto-neutron stars with strong magnetic fields, the neutrino-nucleon scattering/absorption cross sections depend on the direction of neutrino momentum with respect to the magnetic field axis, a manifestation of parity violation in weak interactions. We study the deleptonization and thermal cooling (via neutrino emission) of proto-neutron stars in the presence of such asymmetric neutrino opa...

We investigate the spin polarization of τ leptons produced in ντ and ν̄τ nucleon scattering via charged currents. Quasi-elastic scattering, ∆ resonance production and deep inelastic scattering processes are studied. The polarization information is essential for measuring the τ appearance rate in long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, because the decay particle distributions depend cruci...

We review the status and the results of reactor neutrino experiments, that toe the cutting edge of neutrino research. Short baseline experiments have provided the measurement of the reactor neutrino spectrum, and are still searching for important phenomena such as the neutrino magnetic moment. They could open the door to the measurement of coherent neutrino scattering in a near future. Middle a...

A recent revival of interest in synchronised oscillations due to neutrino–neutrino forward scattering in dense gases has led to two interesting applications with notable outcomes: (i) cosmological bounds on neutrino–antineutrino asymmetries are improved owing to flavour equilibration prior to the onset of big bang nucleosynthesis, and (ii) a neutron-rich environment required for rprocess nucleo...

After the EMC and subsequent experiments at CERN, SLAC and DESY on the deep inelastic scattering of polarized leptons on polarized nucleons, it is now established that the Q 2 = 0 value of the axial strange form factor of the nucleon, a quantity which is connected with the spin of the proton and is quite relevant from the theoretical point of view, is relatively large. In this review we conside...