Cross-section and polarization of neutrino-produced $\tau$'s made simple

Jean-Michel Levy (1)

1 LPNHE - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies

Practical formulae are derived for the cross-section and polarization of the $\tau$ lepton produced in deep-inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering in the frame of the simple quark-parton model.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Phénoménologie [hep-ph]

Jean-Michel Levy. Cross-section and polarization of neutrino-produced $\tau$'s made simple. Journal of Physics G Nuclear Physics, 2009, 36, pp.055002. ⟨10.1088/0954-3899/36/5/055002⟩. ⟨in2p3-00022261⟩