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High-energy neutrino-nucleon cross sections for CT18 parton distribution functions

ORAL

Abstract

We present predictions of the cross section of ultrahigh-energy neutrino-nucleon scattering.

The calculations are based on CT18NNLO parton distribution functions, and their uncertainties. For the highest energies, we extrapolate the PDFs to small x according to several assumptions, which affect the uncertainties at such high energies.

The results can be applied to astrophysical neutrino observatories, such as IceCube currently and proposed future detectors.

Presenters

  • Keping Xie

    University of Pittsburgh

Authors

  • Keping Xie

    University of Pittsburgh