Is there a way to measure the deep-inelastic cross-section using wide-band neutrino beams
A method is described for extracting the value of the neutrino flux in a wide-band beam exposure based on computed differential cross-sections for resonance production and quasielastic scattering of neutrinos on nucleons. The resonance production cross-sections, computed by means of a relativistic quark model, are in excellent agreement with measurements of various neutrino-induced exclusive final states performed so far and also with data from inclusive deep-inelastic neutrino interactions. The theoretical uncertainty inherent in the method is estimated to be about 10% and is roughly equal to the systematic error which plagues the measurements of the neutrino flux in present-day narrow-band beams. Before the first Tevatron narrow-band beam data becomes available in a few years time, if at all, this method provides the only reliable way of ''measuring'' the total neutrino cross-section with the existing wide-band beam data, thus extending the measured energy range by nearly a factor of two.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States); Technische Hochschule Aachen (Germany, F.R.)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03000
- OSTI ID:
- 6698002
- Report Number(s):
- FNAL/Pub-87/19-E; ON: DE87006420
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Microfiche only, copy does not permit paper copy reproduction
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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