Polarized parton distributions from charged-current deep-inelastic scattering and future neutrino factories

Abstract

The capabilities of a neutrino factory in the determination of polarized parton distributions from charged-current deep-inelastic scattering experiments is discussed. We present a study of the accuracy in the determination of polarized parton distributions that would be possible with such a facility. We show that these measurements have the potential to distinguish between different theoretical scenarios for the proton spin structure.

Comments: 5 pages Latex. Talk given at the International Workshop on the Spin Structure of the Proton and Polarized Collider Physics, ECT, Trento, July 23-28, 2001