AUTHOR=Rocco Noemi 

TITLE=Ab initio Calculations of Lepton-Nucleus Scattering

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics

VOLUME=Volume 8 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.00116

DOI=10.3389/fphy.2020.00116

ISSN=2296-424X

ABSTRACT=The advent of high precision measurements of neutrinos and their oscillations calls for accurate predictions 
of their interactions with nuclear targets utilized in the detectors. Over the past decade, ab initio approaches have reached the degree 
of maturity needed to describe lepton-nucleus scattering processes starting from a realistic model of the interactions among the nucleons 
and between them and the beam particle. Achieving a comprehensive description of the different reaction mechanisms active in the 
broad range of energy relevant for oscillation experiments required the introduction of controlled approximations of the nuclear
many-body models. 
In this review, we give an overview of recent developments in the description of electroweak interactions within different 
approaches and discuss the future perspectives to support the experimental effort in this new precision era.