The short-time approximation and its potential application to neutrino scattering

The short-time approximation (STA) has been developed to study nuclear responses to external electroweak probes and, to date, has been validated against electron scattering data; however, this technique is broadly applicable and work is underway to extend it to study neutrino scattering from nuclei. These efforts are relevant to planned and on-going long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. In this contribution, we detail the theory behind the STA, discuss its use for electron scattering, and provide outlook for its use as a tool to study neutrino-nucleus scattering.