Nuclear effects in high-energy neutrino interactions

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作者
Klein, Spencer R. [1 ]
Robertson, Sally A. [1 ]
Vogt, Ramona [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Nucl & Chem Sci Div, Livermore, CA 94551 USA
[3] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Phys, Davis, CA 95616 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RATIOS; PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS; BOSON PRODUCTION; PPB COLLISIONS; W-BOSON; DEPENDENCE; SCATTERING;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevC.102.015808
中图分类号
O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
学科分类号
070202 ;
摘要
Neutrino telescopes like IceCube, KM3NeT, and Baikal-GVD offer physicists the opportunity to study neutrinos with energies far beyond the reach of terrestrial accelerators. These neutrinos are used to study high-energy neutrino interactions and to probe the Earth through absorption tomography. Current studies of TeV neutrinos use cross sections which are calculated for free nucleons with targets which are assumed to contain equal numbers of protons and neutrons. Here we consider modifications of high-energy neutrino interactions due to two nuclear effects: modifications of the parton densities in the nucleus, referred to here as shadowing, and the effect of nonisoscalar targets, with unequal numbers of neutrons and protons. Both of these effects depend on the interaction medium. Because shadowing is larger for heavier nuclei, such as iron, found in the Earth's core, it introduces a zenith-angle dependent change in the absorption cross section. These modifications increase the cross sections by 1-2% at energies below 100 TeV (antishadowing) and reduce it by 3-4% at higher energies (shadowing). Nuclear effects also alter the inelasticity distribution of neutrino interactions in water/ice by increasing the number of low-inelasticity interactions, with a larger effect for nu than (nu) over bar. These effects are particularly large in the energy range below a few TeV. These effects could alter the cross sections inferred from events with tracks originating within the active detector volume as well as the ratio nu/(nu) over bar inferred from inelasticity measurements. The uncertainties in these nuclear effects are larger than the uncertainties on the free-proton cross sections and will thus limit the systematic precision of future high-precision measurements at neutrino telescopes.
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