Eur. Phys. J. C (2008) 56: 479-482
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0684-5

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Parton content of the real photon: astrophysical implications

Institute for Nuclear Research of Russian Academy of Science, 60th October Anniversary pr. 7a, Moscow, 117312, Russia

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Received: 23 April 2008
Revised: 5 June 2008
Published online: 15 August 2008

Abstract

The parton model provides a relatively explicit and transparent technique for the description of high energy particle interactions. Thus, cross sections of two processes, which may have non-trivial astrophysical implications, are calculated by using the parton language. The first one is inclusive on-shell W ⁺ boson production in the ν _e γ reaction. The second one is deep inelastic neutrino–photon scattering.