Measurement of the inelasticity distribution of neutrino-nucleon interactions for $80\mathbf{GeV}<{\mathbf{E}}_{\nu }<560\mathbf{GeV}$ with IceCube DeepCore

Abstract

We report a study of the inelasticity distribution in the scattering of neutrinos of energy $80-560$ GeV off nucleons. Using atmospheric muon neutrinos detected in IceCube's sub-array DeepCore during 2012-2021, we fit the observed inelasticity in the data to a parameterized expectation and extract the values that describe it best. Finally, we compare the results to predictions from various combinations of perturbative QCD calculations and atmospheric neutrino flux models.

arXiv comment17 pages, 19 figures

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