D Meson Production in Neutrino DIS and Polarized Strange Quark Distribution

Abstract

Semi-inclusive $D/\text{Dbar}$ meson productions in neutrino deep inelastic scattering are studied including $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s)$ corrections. Supposing a future neutrino factory, cross sections and spin asymmetries in polarized processes are calculated by using various parametrization models of polarized parton distribution functions. We suggest that $\text{Dbar}$ production is promising to directly extract the strange quark distribution.

Comments: 9 pages, 14 eps figures