# Charm production in the forward region: constraints on the small-x gluon and backgrounds for neutrino astronomy

@article{Gauld2015CharmPI,
title={Charm production in the forward region: constraints on the small-x gluon and backgrounds for neutrino astronomy},
author={R. Gauld and Juan Rojo and Luca Rottoli and Jim Talbert},
journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
year={2015},
volume={2015},
pages={1-46}
}
• Published 26 June 2015
• Physics
• Journal of High Energy Physics
A bstractThe recent observation by the IceCube experiment of cosmic neutrinos at energies up to a few PeV heralds the beginning of neutrino astronomy. At such high energies, the ‘conventional’ neutrino flux is suppressed and the ‘prompt’ component from charm meson decays is expected to become the dominant background to astrophysical neutrinos. Charm production at high energies is however theoretically uncertain, both since the scale uncertainties of the NLO calculation are large, and also…

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