Differential Distributions for NLO Analyses of Charged Current Neutrino-Production of Charm
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Experimental analyses of charged current deep inelastic charm production – as observed through dimuon events in neutrino-iron scattering – measure the strangeness component of the nucleon sea. A complete analysis requires a Monte Carlo simulation to account for experimental detector acceptance effects; therefore, a fully differential theoretical calculation is necessary to provide complete kinematic information. We investigate the theoretical issues involved in calculating these differential distributions at Next-Leading-Order (NLO). Numerical results are presented for typical fixed target kinematics. We present a corresponding FORTRAN code suitable for experimental NLO analysis.
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