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We discuss nuclear structure functions in lepton scattering including neutrino reactions. First, the determination of nuclear parton distribution functions is explained by using the data of electron and muon deep inelastic scattering and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Kumano

This paper shows quantitatively that the magnitude of the EMC effect measured in electron deep inelastic scattering (DIS) at intermediate $x_B$, $0.35\le x_B\le 0.7$, is linearly related to the Short Range Correlation (SRC) scaling factor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-09 L. B. Weinstein , E. Piasetzky , D. W. Higinbotham , J. Gomez , O. Hen , R. Shneor

A detailed study of inclusive deep inelastic scattering (DIS) from mirror A = 3 nuclei at large values of the Bjorken variable x is presented. The main purpose is to estimate the theoretical uncertainties on the extraction of the neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. M. Sargsian , S. Simula , M. I. Strikman

High-energy scattering processes, such as deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and quasielastic (QE) scattering provide a wealth of information about the structure of atomic nuclei. The remarkable discovery of the empirical linear relationship…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-09 J. E. Lynn , D. Lonardoni , J. Carlson , J. -W. Chen , W. Detmold , S. Gandolfi , A. Schwenk

A dedicated effort by both the experimental and theoretical communities is crucial for achieving a precise determination of Standard Model parameters such as the $W$ mass ($M_W$). $M_W$ is measured directly at the CERN LEP2 $e^+ e^-$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-02 Kwangwoo Park , Ulrich Baur , Doreen Wackeroth

The NuTeV collaboration has extracted sin^2theta_W from the ratios of neutral current to charged current neutrino and anti-neutrino cross-sections. Our value, sin^2theta_W(on-shell)=0.2277+/-0.0013(stat)+/-0.0009(syst), is three standard…

In a recent comment, Miller and Thomas assert that differences in nuclear shadowing effects between neutrino neutral current (NC) and charged current (CC) interactions could explain the difference between NuTeV's measurement of the weak…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-02-19 The NuTeV Collaboration , G. P. Zeller , K. S. McFarland

In recent years, many studies on neutrino-nucleus scattering have been carried out to investigate nuclear structures and the interactions between neutrinos and nucleons. This paper develops a charged-current quasielastic (CCQE)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-12 Jian Liu , Qiang Su , Qinglin Niu , Lei Wang , Zhongzhou Ren

We investigate a possible explanation for the NuTeV anomaly in terms of a nuclear correction difference between u_v and d_v distributions. Analyzing deep elastic scattering and Drell-Yan data for nuclear targets, we try to determine the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai

In the framework of the collinear factorized pQCD approach we calculate the small-$x_B$ process-dependent nuclear modification to the structure functions measured in neutrino-nucleus deeply inelastic scattering. We include both heavy quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jianwei Qiu , Ivan Vitev

Taking into account recent theoretical and experimental inputs on reactor fluxes we reconsider the determination of the weak mixing angle from low energy experiments. We perform a global analysis to all available neutrino-electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-07 B. C. Canas , E. A. Garces , O. G. Miranda , M. Tortola , J. W. F. Valle

Nuclear-medium effects in the weak structure functions $F_2(x,Q^2)$ and $F_3(x,Q^2)$ in the charged current neutrino and antineutrino induced deep inelastic reactions in $^{208}$Pb have been studied. The calculations have been performed in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Haider , I. Ruiz Simo , M. Sajjad Athar

A recently completed next-to-leading-order program to calculate neutrino cross sections, including power-suppressed mass correction terms, has been applied to evaluate the Paschos-Wolfenstein relation, in order to quantitatively assess the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Kretzer , F. Olness , J. Pumplin , M. H. Reno , D. Stump , W. K. Tung

The nuclear medium effects are studied in the $\nu_\tau/\bar\nu_\tau$ interactions from nuclei in the deep inelastic scattering (DIS) region and applied to the $^{40}Ar$ nucleus to obtain the scattering cross sections in the energy region…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-01 F. Zaidi , V. Ansari , M. Sajjad Athar , H. Haider , I. Ruis Simo , S. K. Singh

We discuss nuclear effects on neutrino-nuclear interactions in a wide kinematical range from shallow to deep inelastic scattering (DIS) region. There is necessity from neutrino communities to have precise neutrino-nucleus cross sections for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Kumano

By studying the Paschos-Wolfenstein (PW) ratio of deep inelastic $\nu{\rm Fe}$ and $\bar \nu{\rm Fe}$ scattering cross sections, we show that it should be possible to explain the NuTeV $\sin ^2 \theta_{\rm W}$ anomaly with quite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 K. J. Eskola , H. Paukkunen

Background: Nuclear short-range correlations (SRCs) are corrections to mean-field wave functions connected with the short-distance behavior of the nucleon-nucleon interaction. These SRCs provide corrections to lepton- nucleus cross sections…

We discuss nuclear effects in the Paschos-Wolfenstein relationship in the context of extraction of the weak mixing angle. We point out that the neutron excess correction to the Paschos-Wolfenstein relationship for a neutron-rich target is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. A. Kulagin

The recent x>1 (e,e') and correlation experiments at momentum transfer Q^2 \ge 2 GeV^2 confirm presence of short-range correlations (SRC) in nuclei mostly build of nucleons. Recently we evaluated in a model independent way the dominant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Mark Strikman