Published November 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Quantifying uncertainties in the high-energy neutrino cross-section

  • 1. Department of Particle Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom)

Description

The predictions for high-energy neutrino and antineutrino deep inelastic scattering cross-sections are compared within the conventional DGLAP formalism of next-to-leading order QCD, using the latest parton distribution functions (PDF) such as CT10, HERAPDF1.5 and MSTW08 and taking account of PDF uncertainties. From this, a benchmark cross-section and uncertainty are derived which is consistent with the results obtained earlier using the ZEUS-S PDFs. The use of this is advocated for analysing data from neutrino telescopes, in order to facilitate comparison between their results. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Pramana
Journal Volume
79
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 1301-1308
CODEN
PRAMCI

Conference

Title
25. international symposium on lepton-photon interactions at high energies, Lepton-Photon 2011. Pt. 2
Dates
22-27 Jan 2011
Place
Mumbai (India)

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Notes
33 refs., 4 figs.