SHADOWING CORRECTIONS AND THE PRECISE DETERMINATION OF ELECTROWEAK PARAMETERS IN NEUTRINO-NUCLEON SCATTERING

By G. Miller, A. Thomas. 2002

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A systematic error in the extraction of sin2θW from nuclear deep inelastic scattering of neutrinos and antineutrinos arises from higher-twist effects arising from nuclear shadowing. We explain that these effects cause a correction to the results of the recently reported significant deviation from the Standard Model that is potentially as large as the deviation claimed, and of a sign that cannot be determined without an extremely careful study of the data set used to model the input parton distribution functions.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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