A Measurement of $R ={sigma_L}{sigma_T}$ in Deep Inelastic Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering at t.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - e x / 9 6 0 5 0 0 5 v 1 1 5 M a y 1 9 9 6 UR-1460, ER-40685-889 UK PHENOMENOLOGY WORKSHOP A Workshop on HERA Physics 17th to 23rd September, 1995 A Measurement of R = σL/σT in Deep Inelastic Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering at the Tevatron U K Yang, P Auchincloss, P de Barbaro, A Bodek, H Budd, D A Harris, W K Sakumoto?; W C Lefmann, R Steiner?; M J Oreglia, B A Schumm§; R A Johnson, M Nussbaum, L Perera, M Vakili‖; C G Arroyo, A O Bazarko, J Conrad, J H Kim, B J King, S Koutsoliotas, C McNulty, S R Mishra, Z Quintas, A Romosan, F J Sciulli, W G Seligman, M H Shaevitz, Spentzouris, E G Stern?; R H Bernstein, G Koizumi, M J Lamm, Marsh, K S McFarland+; T Bolton, W B Lowery, D Naples?; R B Drucker?; T Kinnel, W H Smith?; and P Nienaber# (Presented by U K Yang for the CCFR/NuTeV Collaboration) ? University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA ? Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530 USA § University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA ‖ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA ? Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 USA +Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 60510 USA ? Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA ? University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA ? University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA # Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH 45207 USA Abstract. Measurements of neutrino-nucleon and antineutrino-nucleon differential cross sections using the CCFR neutrino detector at Fermilab have been used to extract preliminary values of R = σL/σT in the kinematic region 0.01 x 0.6, and 4 Q2 300 GeV2. The new data provide the first measurements of R in the x 0.1 region. The x and Q2 dependence of R is compared with a QCD based fit to previous data. The QCD fit, which provides an estimate of R in small x region where R has not been previously measured, is in good agreement with the new CCFR data. (To be published in Jou. Phys. G) 1. Introduction The ratio R = σL/σT of the longitudinal and transverse absorption cross