27–28 May 2021
Europe/Zurich timezone

Probing PDFs via Neutrino Scattering with FASER$\nu$

28 May 2021, 17:30
15m

Speaker

Jason Arakawa

Description

We study the impact that FASER(\nu) will have on the determination of nuclear and nucleon PDFs using neutrino/anti-neutrino deep inelastic scattering $\nu_{\mu} q \rightarrow \mu^- q^{\prime}$. FASER$\nu$ will be able to probe a broader range of the $x, y,$ and $Q^2$ parameter space with the access to the high energy neutrinos generated from interactions at ATLAS. For the nucleon PDFs focus on the strange PDF, which suffers from large uncertainties particularly at low x. The strange PDF can be probed via the charm exclusive final state. The charm hadronizes into a D meson, which can be identified via a displaced decay, leading to a kink signature. We use the $\texttt{ePump}$ package to forecast how these events will update the PDFs and their uncertainties.

Authors

Jason Arakawa Felix Kling (SLAC) Tyler Smith (University of California, Irvine) Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine) Michael Waterbury (University of California, Irvine)

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