Polarized Parton Distribution in Neutrino Induced Heavy Flavor Production

Abstract

In order to examine polarized strange quark distribution, semi-inclusive $D/\text{Dbar}$ production in neutrino deep inelastic scattering is studied including $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s)$ corrections. Cross section and spin asymmetry are calculated by using various parametrizations of polarized parton distribution functions. It is found that $\text{Dbar}$ production is promising to directly extract the polarized strange sea.

Comments: 3 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at the NuFact02 workshop, London, UK, July 1-6, 2002