Precision determination of electroweak parameters and the strange content of the proton from neutrino deep-inelastic scattering

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.08.003MaRDI QIDQ1960124zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors NNPDF Collaboration, Richard D. Ball, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Alberto Guffanti, José I. Latorre, Andrea Piccione, Juan Rojo, Maria Ubiali

Publication date 12 October 2010

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1958

zbMATH Keywords

dimuon productionPaschos-Wolfenstein relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Nuclear physics (81V35)

Abstract: We use recent neutrino dimuon production data combined with a global deep-inelastic parton fit to construct a new parton set, NNPDF1.2, which includes a determination of the strange and antistrange distributions of the nucleon. The result is characterized by a faithful estimation of uncertainties thanks to the use of the NNPDF methodology, and is free of model or theoretical assumptions other than the use of NLO perturbative QCD and exact sum rules. Better control of the uncertainties of the strange and antistrange parton distributions allows us to reassess the determination of electroweak parameters from the NuTeV dimuon data. We perform a direct determination of the |V_cd| and |V_cs| CKM matrix elements, obtaining central values in agreement with the current global CKM fit: specifically we find |V_cd|=0.244pm 0.019 and |V_cs|=0.96pm 0.07. Our result for |V_cs| is more precise than any previous direct determination. We also reassess the uncertainty on the NuTeV determination of sin^2 heta_W through the Paschos-Wolfenstein relation: we find that the very large uncertainties in the strange valence momentum fraction are sufficient to bring the NuTeV result into complete agreement with the results from precision electroweak data.

Recommendations

• DEEP INELASTIC NEUTRINO INTERACTIONS
• Compatibility of neutrino DIS data and global analyses of parton distribution functions
• A first unbiased global NLO determination of parton distributions and their uncertainties
• A determination of parton distributions with faithful uncertainty estimation
• Parton distributions for the LHC

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• Constraints on the \(s - \overline{s}\) asymmetry of the proton in chiral effective theory
• The structure of the proton in the LHC precision era
• Compatibility of neutrino DIS data and global analyses of parton distribution functions
• Intrinsic charm in a matched general-mass scheme
• The strange asymmetry of the proton sea
• Probing gluon and heavy-quark nuclear pdfs with \(\gamma + Q\) production in \(pA\) collisions
• DEEP INELASTIC NEUTRINO INTERACTIONS

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