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Neutrino-jet correlations in charged-current SIDIS

Weihua Yang1, Jing Zhao2,*, and Zhe Zhang3,†

  • *Contact author: zhaojingzj@sdu.edu.cn
  • †Contact author: zhangzhe@impcas.ac.cn
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Phys. Rev. D 112, 033007 – Published 20 August, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/z8tf-mzrw

Abstract

Charged-current deep inelastic scattering plays a significant role in determining parton distribution functions with flavor separation. In this work, we present a systematic calculation of the charged-current semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) in the eN collinear frame up to twist-3 level at leading order. Semi-inclusive refers to the process in which a jet is detected in addition to the scattered neutrino. We focus on neutrino-jet correlations in our calculation. We first present the differential cross section in terms of structure functions, followed by the differential cross section expressed in term of transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions. We derive the complete set of azimuthal asymmetries and intrinsic asymmetries. We also introduce an observable AC, defined as the ratio of the difference from the sum of differential cross sections for electron and positron semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering. We notice that AC provides a sensitive probe for valence and sea quark distribution functions.

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Phys. Rev. D 112, 033007– Published 20 August, 2025
  • Received 14 May 2025
  • Accepted 26 July 2025
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