Charged-current deep-inelastic scattering of muon neutrinos (νμ) off Fe 56

Abstract

In this paper, we study charged-current deep-inelastic scattering of muon neutrinos off Fe56 nuclei by using the Hirai, Kumano, and Saito model. The LHA parton distribution functions (PDFs) - CT10 are used to describe the partonic content of hadrons. Modification of PDFs inside the nuclei is done by using EPPS16 parametrization at next-to-leading order. Target mass correction has also been incorporated in the calculations. We calculate the structure functions [F2(x,Q2) and xF3(x,Q2)], the ratios [R2(x,Q2)=F2Fe56/F2Nucleon and R3(x,Q2)=F3Fe56/F3Nucleon], and the differential cross sections of νμ deep-inelastic scattering off nucleons and Fe56 nuclei. We compare the results obtained with measured experimental data. The present theoretical approach gives a good description of data. .