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Charm production in neutrino-nuclei collisions within the color
dipole formalism at very high energies *
Mairon Melo Machado
High Energy Phenomenology Group, GFPAE IF – UFRGS, Porto Alegre
[email protected]
www.if.ufrgs.br/gfpae
* In collaboration with M. B. Gay Ducati and M. V. T. Machado
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• Lepton-nucleon collision
• Neutrino-nucleon cross section
• Structure functions
• Color dipole formalism
• Charged Current (CC) process and Neutral Current (NC) process
• Neutrino-nuclei Interaction
• Results
• Conclusions
Outline
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• Color dipole approach (CDA) for lepton-hadron DIS
• Phenomenology using saturation models in CDA (GBW and IIM models)
• Neutrino DIS at small-x within the dipole formalism
• Analysis of charm production cross section in NC interactions
• Color dipole formalism arises as a robust theoretical approach to describe small-x structure functions1
Motivations
1 GAY DUCATI, M. B., M. M. M., MACHADO, M. V. T. – PLB 644 (2007) 340 HEP 08
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Neutrino-nucleon collision
M is the nucleon mass
E is the neutrino energy
p and q are the nucleon and boson four-momenta
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W, Z (q)
pi
p’j
pj
pk
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Quark distribution
• Gluon emits a quark-antiquark pair changing the quark distribution in the nucleon
• These quarks are called sea quarks
• Quark content is given by the sum of valence quarks and sea quarks
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Neutrino-nucleon cross section
GF is the Fermi constant
1.166.10-5 GeV-2
Mi is the boson mass
F2, FL and F3 are the structure functions
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dxdy
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22)(
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dxdy
d NFN
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Structure functions
Chiral
coupling
sin 2 θW = 0.23120
θW is the Weinberg angle
2
3
2 ROBERTS, R. G., “The structure of the proton”, Cambridge University Press 1993 HEP 08
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Color dipole phenomenology
are the wave functions of quarks
z is the momentum fraction of quark and (1-z) is the momentum fraction of the antiquark
1 and 2 are the helicity of the quarks (1/2 or -1/2)
r is the transversal size of the dipole
dip is parametrized and fitted to the experiment .
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Structure functions
Structure function for bosons transversally or longitudinally polarized
K0,1 are the McDonald functions
mq (mq) is the mass of the quarks (antiquarks)
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Neutrino-nuclei interaction
Dipole cross section for bosons transversally or longitudinally polarized are extended for nuclei using Glauber-Gribov formalism
Nuclear profile function TA (b)
b is the impact parameter and n(r) is the nuclear matter density normalized as
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21
21
,.
22,,
1
0
2 ),(),,(
rxQrzdzrd AdipRL
)()( 22 bzdznbTA
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Dipole cross section
• Golec-Biernat-Wusthoff (GBW) 3
• Iancu-Itakura-Munier (IIM) 4
• Parameters fitted by data comparison, s = 0.63 anomalous dimension, a and b are constants
, 0 = 23 mb, ~ 0.288, x0 ~ 3.10-4 m, mf = 0.14 GeV
4exp1),(
22
02 sat
dip
Qrrx
)2(,(2lnexp1 satsat rQbrQa
)2(,2
2
0
satsat rQ
rQN
0),( rxdip
Yk
rQrx sat
sat )/2ln(
),(
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3 GOLEC-BIERNAT, K; WUSTHOFF, M. PRD 60, 1140231 (1998);
4 IANCU, ITAKURA, MUNIER, .PLB 590, 199 (2004)
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Comparison IIM and GBW
• Total = valence + sea
Gay Ducati, MMM, Magno Machado, PLB 644 (2007) 340
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NC structure functions (Q2 fixed)
F2
FL
F3
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NC structure functions (x fixed)
F2
FL
F3
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NC charm structure functions
Q2 x
F2
F3
F2
F3
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Neutral Current Cross Section Results
High energies
contribution of sea quarks dominates
neutrino-proton interaction
5 KWIECINSKI, J; et al. PRD 59 (1999) 093002
Energy (GeV) σcharm (cm2) σCharm/ σTotal
27 5,4 x 10-40 0,027
154 1,9 x 10-38 0,135
1000 7,1 x 10-37 0,154
10000 3,0 x 10-35 0,193
100000 3,3 x 10-34 0,225
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Neutral Current Cross Section Results
Energy (GeV) σcharm (cm2) σCharm/ σTotal
27 6,56 x 10-44 3,25 x 10-3
154 2,33 x 10-42 1,04x10-2
108 5,8 x 10-33 0,25
109 1,4 x 10-33 0.41
1010 3,21 x 10-31 0,42
neutrino-nuclei interaction
0,23 fb
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Conclusions
Description of small-x structure functions in neutrino-hadron and neutrino-nuclei interaction using color dipole formalism
GBW parametrization gives good result to proton structure functions
Extension to neutrino-nuclei interaction is suitable
Estimations gives good results in comparison to neutrino-nuclei (NuTeV and CHORUS) data for charm quark contribution
Important framework to perform estimations for future neutrino-nuclei experiments (MINERvA and Neutrino Factory)
Color dipole formalism is a good model do describes deep inelastic scattering
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