Neutrino interactions. A review of recent experimental results

This chapter reviews high-energy neutrino interactions with regard to new experimental results which have become available during the last year. Focuses on the high-energy limit where the interpretation of the results is simplified if threshold effects are negligible, i.e., where the center-of-mass energy of the reaction is large compared to the rest mass of the target. Refers to the inelastic interaction of electrons or muons on nucleons which presumably is mediated by the electromagnetic vector current through the exchange of a spin 1 photon. Discusses beams and detectors; inverse muon decays; neutrino-electron scattering; semileptonic interactions and the quark-parton model; total cross-sections; muon polarization; average structure functions; sea-quark distributions; the Callan-Gross relation; structure functions and scale breaking; gluon moments and x distribution; and semileptonic neutral currents