Monday, February 11, 2013

1302.2001 (Hannu Paukkunen et al.)

Agreement of neutrino DIS data with global fits of parton distributions    [PDF]

Hannu Paukkunen, Carlos A. Salgado
The compatibility of neutrino-nucleus deep inelastic scattering data within the universal, factorizable nuclear parton distribution functions has been studied independently by several groups in the last few years. The conclusions are contradictory, ranging from a violation of the universality up to a good agreement, most of the controversy originating from the use of the neutrino-nucleus data from the NuTeV collaboration. Here, we pay attention to non-negligible differences in the absolute normalization between different neutrino data sets. We find that such variations are large enough to prevent a tensionless fit to all data simultaneously and could therefore misleadingly point towards non-universal nuclear effects. We propose a concrete method to deal with the absolute normalization and show that an agreement between independent neutrino data sets is established.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2001

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