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Nuclear shadowing in neutrino-nucleus deeply inelastic scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

In the framework of the collinear factorized pQCD approach we calculate the small-xBx_B process-dependent nuclear modification to the structure functions measured in neutrino-nucleus deeply inelastic scattering. We include both heavy quark mass corrections (M2/Q2)(M^2/Q^2) and resummed nuclear-enhanced dynamical power corrections in the quantity (ξ2/Q2)(A1/31)(\xi^2/Q^2)(A^{1/3}-1) with ξ2\xi^2 evaluated to leading order in αs\alpha_s. Our formalism predicts a measurable difference in the shadowing pattern of the structure functions F2A(xB,Q2)F_2^A(x_B,Q^2) and F3A(xB,Q2)F_3^A(x_B,Q^2) and a significant low- and moderate-Q2Q^2 modification of the QCD sum rules. We also comment on the relevance of our results to the NuTeV extraction of sin2θW\sin^2\theta_W.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0401062,
  title  = {Nuclear shadowing in neutrino-nucleus deeply inelastic scattering},
  author = {Jianwei Qiu and Ivan Vitev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0401062},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX 4