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Title: IceCube can constrain the intrinsic charm of the proton [IC at IC: IceCube can constrain the intrinsic charm of the proton]

Journal Article · · Physical Review D
 [1];  [2]
  1. Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Here, the discovery of extraterrestrial neutrinos in the ~30 TeV–PeV energy range by IceCube provides new constraints on high energy astrophysics. An important background to the signal are the prompt neutrinos which originate from the decay of charm hadrons produced by high energy cosmic-ray particles interacting in the Earth’s atmosphere. It is conventional to use the calculations of charm hadroproduction using gluon splitting g → c¯c alone. However, QCD predicts an additional “intrinsic" component of the heavy quark distribution which arises from diagrams where heavy quarks are multiply connected to the proton’s valence quarks. We estimate the prompt neutrino spectrum due to intrinsic charm. We find that the atmospheric prompt neutrino flux from intrinsic charm is comparable to those calculated using QCD computations not including intrinsic charm, once we normalize the intrinsic charm differential cross sections to the ISR and the LEBC-MPS collaboration data. In the future, IceCube will constrain the intrinsic charm content of the proton and will contribute to one of the major questions in high energy physics phenomenology.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1417662
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1411275
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Vol. 96, Issue 12; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 22 works
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Web of Science

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