Anna Stasto, Thesis Supervisor Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Thesis Honors Advisor
Keywords:
Neutrinos High-Energy Particles Deep Inelastic Scattering Cross Sections Quark Production Inelasticity
Abstract:
We study the cross sections for the collisions between high-energy neutrinos and nucleons. We compute the power of the energy behavior of the cross section for the neutral and charged current cases and find that in the limit of high energies it is approximately equal to 0.3, thus reflecting the behavior of the quark distributions as a function of small Bjorken x. We compute the ratios of the charm contribution to the total cross section. We implement the Monte Carlo method for the integration of the cross section. Finally, we study the inelasticity distribution and the average inelasticity as a function of neutrino energy in the cross section with the heavy quarks.
