Screening effects in the ultrahigh energy neutrino interactions
Abstract
We study possible saturation effects in the total cross-section describing interaction of ultrahigh energy neutrinos with nucleons. This analysis is performed within the two approaches, i.e. within the Golec-Biernat W\"usthoff saturation model and within the scheme unifying the DGLAP and BFKL dynamics incorporating non-linear screening effects which follow from the Balitzki-Kovchegov equation. The structure functions in both approaches are constrained by HERA data. It is found that screening effects affect extrapolation of the neutrino-nucleon total cross-sections to ultrahigh neutrino energies and reduce their magnitude by a factor equal to about 2 at . This reduction becomes amplified by nuclear shadowing in the case of the neutrino-nucleus cross-sections and approximate estimate of this effect is performed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0303209,
title = {Screening effects in the ultrahigh energy neutrino interactions},
author = {Krzysztof Kutak and Jan Kwiecinski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0303209},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
23 pages, 9 figures,final version