Heavy quark currents in ultra-high energy neutrino interactions

Details Heavy quark currents in ultra-high energy neutrino interactions Heavy quark currents in ultra-high energy neutrino interactions

2011-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/1107.4456v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

13 pages, 2 figures, to be published in JETP Letters

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We discuss heavy quark contributions to the neutrino-nucleon total cross section at very high energies, well above the real top production threshold. The top-bottom weak current is found to generate strong left-right asymmetry of neutrino-nucleon interactions. We separate contributions of different helicity states and make use of the $\bkappa$-factorization to derive simple and practically useful formulas for the left-handed ($F_L$) and right-handed ($F_R$) components of the conventional structure function $2xF_3=F_L-F_R$ in terms of the integrated gluon density. We show that $F_L\gg F_R$ and, consequently, $xF_3\approx F_T$, where $F_T$ is the transverse structure function. The conventional structure function $F_2=F_S+F_T$ at $Q^2\ll m_t^2$ appears to be dominated by its scalar (also known as longitudinal) component $F_S$ and the hierarchy $F_S\gg F_L\gg F_R$ arises naturally. We evaluate the total neutrino-nucleon cross section at ultra-high energies within the color dipole BFKL formalism.

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