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Screening effects in the ultrahigh energy neutrino interactions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v4

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 EνE_{\nu} and reduce their magnitude by a factor equal to about 2 at Eν1012GeVE_{\nu} \sim 10^{12}GeV. This reduction becomes amplified by nuclear shadowing in the case of the neutrino-nucleus cross-sections and approximate estimate of this effect is performed.

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@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}
}

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23 pages, 9 figures,final version