학술논문

The photon content of the neutron.
Document Type
Article
Source
Journal of High Energy Physics. Apr2024, Vol. 2024 Issue 4, p1-37. 37p.
Subject
*NEUTRONS
*DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory)
*PHOTONS
*ISOBARIC spin
*AXIONS
*MUONS
*NEUTRINOS
Language
ISSN
1126-6708
Abstract
In this work, we complete our CT18qed study with the neutron's photon parton distribution function (PDF), which is essential for the nucleus scattering phenomenology. Two methods, CT18lux and CT18qed, based on the LUXqed formalism and the DGLAP evolution, respectively, to determine the neutron's photon PDF have been presented. Various low-Q2 non-perturbative variations have been carefully examined, which are treated as additional uncertainties on top of those induced by quark and gluon PDFs. The impacts of the momentum sum rule as well as isospin symmetry violation have been explored and turned out to be negligible. A detailed comparison with other neutron's photon PDF sets has been performed, which shows a great improvement in the precision and a reasonable uncertainty estimation. Finally, two phenomenological implications are demonstrated with photon-initiated processes: neutrino-nucleus W-boson production, which is important for the near-future TeV–PeV neutrino observations, and the axion-like particle production at a high-energy muon beam-dump experiment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]