Neutral current neutrino-nucleus interactions at high energies

TL;DR

This paper uses the color dipole formalism to analyze high-energy neutral current neutrino-nucleus interactions at small-x, providing theoretical predictions for structure functions and cross sections.

Contribution

It introduces a QCD-based phenomenological approach to describe neutral current neutrino-nucleus interactions at small-x energies.

Findings

Successful description of experimental data in deep inelastic ep scattering

Predictions for structure functions at high energies

Implications for total neutrino cross sections

Abstract

We present a QCD analysis of the neutral current neutrino-nucleus interaction at the small-x region using the color dipole formalism. This phenomenological approach is quite successful in describing experimental results in deep inelastic ep scattering and charged current neutrino-nucleus interactions at high energies. We present theoretical predictions for the relevant structure functions and the corresponding implications for the total NC neutrino cross section.