High-energy neutrino deep inelastic scattering cross sections
Abstract
We present a state-of-the-art prediction for cross sections of neutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) from nucleon at high neutrino energies, Eν , up to 1000 EeV (1012 GeV ). Our calculations are based on the latest CT18 NNLO parton distribution functions (PDFs) and their associated uncertainties. To make predictions for the highest energies, we extrapolate the PDFs to small x according to several procedures and assumptions, thus affecting the uncertainties at ultrahigh Eν; we quantify the uncertainties corresponding to these choices. Similarly, we quantify the uncertainties introduced by the nuclear corrections that are required to evaluate neutrino-nuclear cross sections for the neutrino observatories. These results can be applied to currently running astrophysical neutrino observatories, such as IceCube and KM3NeT, as well as various future experiments that have been proposed.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- June 2024
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.113001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2303.13607
- Bibcode:
- 2024PhRvD.109k3001X
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- 57 pages, 27 figures, and 2 tables