Speaker
Keping Xie
(University of Pittsburgh)
Description
We present predictions of the cross section of ultrahigh-energy neutrino-nucleon scattering. The calculations are based on CT18NNLO parton distribution functions and their uncertainties. For the highest energies, we extrapolate the PDFs to small x according to several assumptions, which affect the uncertainties at such high energies. The results can be applied to astrophysical neutrino observatories, such as IceCube currently, and proposed future detectors.
Primary author
Keping Xie
(University of Pittsburgh)