2003/01/08 by S. A. Kulagin, S. Kulagin · 35 citations
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Context (archaeology) #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Geography #Neutron #Nuclear physics #Physics #Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.67.091301
published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 67(9) (American Physical Society) · 7 pages, uses REVTeX4
arxiv created 2003/01/08 · openalex publication_date 2003/05/15 · arxiv updated 2014/11/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We discuss the nuclear effects in the Paschos-Wolfenstein relationship in the context of the extraction of the weak mixing angle. We point out that the neutron excess correction to the Paschos-Wolfenstein relationship for a neutron-rich target is negative and large on the scale of the experimental errors of a recent NuTeV measurement. We find a larger neutron excess correction to the Paschos-Wolfenstein relationship for the total cross sections than that discussed by the NuTeV Collaboration. The phenomenological applications of this observation are discussed in the context of the NuTeV deviation. The uncertainties in the neutron excess correction are estimated. The effects due to the Fermi motion, nuclear binding, and nuclear shadowing are also discussed in the context of the total cross sections.