Contributions of vector-meson dominance to charmed-meson production in inelastic neutrino and antineutrino interactions

Abstract

We discuss the contribution to neutrino-hadron interaction due to $F^{*}$ dominance of the weak vector current, and we give quantitative estimates of the $x$ and $y$ distributions for the deep-inelastic cross section at various energies. Other contributions, such as the nonresonant continuum and axial-vector terms, have been qualitatively discussed as well. We compare our results with experimental data on single-muon and dimuon production. We also calculate the diffractive, "elastic" $F^{*}$ production cross section.