19-21 noviembre 2025
Europe/Madrid timezone

Probing Parton Distribution Functions with DUNE

19 nov. 2025 14:30
15m
Talk Física Teórica Física Teórica

Ponente

Ángel Felipe Ballesteros (University of the Basque Country (EHU))

Descripción

Neutrinos are a valuable probe for measuring Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) due to the flavor-dependent nature of their interactions with quarks. Recent comparisons between neutrino-nucleon and charged lepton-nucleon deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data show emerging tensions, which may lead to neutrino exclusive nuclear physics. However, previous neutrino studies have been hindered, in part, by low statistics. Recent advances in neutrino experiments open the door for a new era of high-statistics, good final-state reconstruction, neutrino-nucleus interactions measurements. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a prime example. This work is a first step to investigate the capability of DUNE to determine PDFs in high Bjorken $x$ and low $Q^2$ regions. We find that DUNE may be able to constrain and reduce the error of PDFs in these regions, that currently are in mild tension among different datasets. Moreover, we have conducted an analysis with similar results for charm-tagged events, which show potential to improve the understanding of the strange quark content of nuclei.

Autor primario

Ángel Felipe Ballesteros (University of the Basque Country (EHU))

Coautores

Iván Esteban (University of the Basque Country (EHU)) Miguel García Echevarría (University of the Basque Country (EHU))

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