Theoretical Cross Section of Intermediate-Boson Production from Neutrinos

Abstract

With the availability of higher accelerator energies in the foreseeable future, it is to be expected that renewed efforts will be made to search for the hypothetical intermediate bosons in the next generation of neutrino experiments. We record here some details of the theoretical calculation of the production cross section upon which the numerical computation is based. The differential cross section is computed in closed form. The calculation of the total cross section is reduced to a two-dimensional integral to be evaluated numerically.