Precision Measurements with High Energy Neutrino Beams
Abstract
Neutrino scattering measurements offer a unique tool to probe the electroweak and strong interactions as described by the Standard Model (SM). Electroweak measurements are accessible through the comparison of neutrino neutral- and charged-current scattering. These measurements are complimentary to other electroweak measurements due to differences in the radiative corrections both within and outside the SM. Neutrino scattering measurements also provide a precise method for measuring the F_2(x,Q^2) and xF_3(x,Q^2 structure functions. The predicted Q^2 evolution can be used to test perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics as well as to measure the strong coupling constant, alpha _s, and the valence, sea, and gluon parton distributions. In addition, neutrino charm production, which can be determined from the observed dimuon events, allows the strange-quark sea to be investigated along with measurements of the CKM matrix element |V_{cd}| and the charm quark mass.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9707015,
title = {Precision Measurements with High Energy Neutrino Beams},
author = {Janet M. Conrad and Michael H. Shaevitz and Tim Bolton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9707015},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
80 pages, 53 figures, latex+revtex+harvard.sty+psfig, to be published in Reviews of Modern Physics