Open Issues in Shallow-and Deep-Inelastic Scattering
NuFact18 WG2 Virginia Tech - 16 August 2018
Jorge G. Morfín Fermilab
1 The General Landscape – Comparison of Generators
◆ We use the invariant mass of the hadronic system: W2 = M2 + Q2 (1 – x ) / x to classify the type of interaction we are studying. ◆ By far the majority of contemporary studies in n-nucleus interactions have been of QE and D production that is W ≤ 1.4 GeV ◆ However, there is plenty of activity going on aboveInvariant this W cut! Formass example distribution with a 6 GeV n on Fe – excluding QE. νμ on Fe, Eν=6.0 GeV NEUT RES W>1.7 GeV + Invariant mass distribution DIS bkg DIS (“multi-pi”) (PYTHIA) νμ on Fe, Eν=6.0 GeV1.4 2.0 NEUT RES C. Bronner- 2016 W>1.7 GeV + DIS bkg DIS (“multi-pi”) (PYTHIA)
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5 The General Landscape - Comparison of Generators
◆ Since over 50% of the DUNE events have W greater than the Delta mass (W ≈≥ 1.4 GeV), we need to consider what we do(little)/do-not(big) know about this region! ◆ This region includes a series of higher mass resonances that dwindle in number as W increases. For example, if we take W > 1.7 GeV to be “above” a majority of these resonances then the Q2 distributions for a 6 GeV n on Fe are predicted to Q2 distributions look like this. Corrections to NEUT and GENIE yield improved agreement. Fe, Eν=6.0 GeV W>1.7 GeV Neutrino - 2018 2016 Neutrino Anti-neutrino
C. Bronner- 2016 C. Bronner- 2018 Similar to previous slide 21 3 So let’s start our examination of this region with Deep-Inelastic Scattering (Q2 > 1 GeV2 and W > 2 GeV)
◆ Why study Deep-Inelastic Scattering?? ◆ Better understand the quark / parton structure of the free and bound nucleon. ◆ Test the predictions of (nuclear) Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). ◆ How do we do study it? ▼ Measure total and differential cross sections in x, Q2 and W off various nuclei. 2 ▼ Extract the corresponding “nuclear structure functions” Fi(x,Q ) with i = 1,2 and 3.
▼ Use the nuclear cross sections or nuclear Fi in global fits to determine nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDF).
▼ Determine bound nucleon partonic nuclear effects by ratios of s or Fi off a range of nuclei. ▼ Determine quark hadronization by examining the make-up - multiplicities as
function of z ≈ Ei / EH and particle ID - of the hadron shower. » Determine “hadron formation lengths” by comparing z distribution of various A. 4 Neutrino Interaction Structure Functions
!!In terms of the parton distribution functions we found (2) :
•!Compare coefficients of y with the general Lorentz Invariant form (p.321) and assume Bjorken scaling, i.e.
•!Re-writing (2) The Fundamentals 2 2 and equating powers of y Deep-Inelastic Scattering (Q > 1 GeV and W > 2 GeV)
Squared 4-momentum q Q 2 = 4E E sin 2 , transferred to hadronic system n µ 2 Neutrino InteractionQ Structure2 Fraction Functions of momentum gives: x = , 2ME carried by the struck quark !!In terms of the parton distribution functionsHAD we found (2) : n E y = = HAD , Inelasticity Prof. M.A. Thomson Michaelmas 2011 En En 344
•!Compare coefficients of y with the general Lorentz Invariant form (p.321) and assumeDifferential Bjorken cross scaling, section i.e. in terms of structure functions:
2 n (n ) 2 (–) 2 2 (2–) 2 2 (–) 1 d s G M éæ Mxy y 1+ 4M x Q ö n (n ) æ y ö n (n ) ù = F êç1- y - + ÷F ± ç y - ÷xF ú E dxdy 2 2 2 ç 2E 2 1+ R(x,Q 2 ) ÷ 2 ç 2 ÷ 3 n p (1+ Q M W ) ëè n ø è ø û NOTE: again we get the Callan-Gross•!Re-writingStructure (2)relation Functions in terms of parton distributions (for n-scattering) No surprise, underlying process is scattering from point-like spin-1/2 quarks F n (n )N = [xqn (n )N (x)+ xqn (n )N (x)+ 2xkn (n )N (x)], !!Substituting back in to expression2 å for differential cross section: andn (n )N equatingn (n ) Npowersn of(n )N y xF3 = å[xq (x)- xq (x)]= x(dV (x)+ uV (x))± 2x(s(x)- c(x)),
s L R = 5 !!Experimentally measure s Tand from y distributions at fixed x "! Different y dependencies (from different rest frame angular distributions) allow contributions from the two structure functions to be measured gives: