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Ultra-High Energy Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering and Parton Distributions at Small x

Ernest M. Henley, Jamal Jalilian-Marian

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0512220

Abstract

The cross section for ultra-high energy neutrino-nucleon scattering is very sensitive to the parton distributions at very small values of Bjorken x (x ≤ 10-4). We numerically investigate the effects of modifying the behavior of the gluon distribution function at very small x in the DGLAP evolution equation. We then use the Color Glass Condensate formalism to calculate the neutrino-nucleon cross section at ultra-high energies and compare the result with those based on modification of DGLAP evolution equation.

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