The quark-parton model is used to study neutrino scattering in the case where the mass of a heavy, produced quark is not neglected. Evidence for right-handed currents is found in the charged-current neutrino scattering data. The masses of produced heavy quarks are estimated.There have been hints in the data of the Harvard University-University of Pennsylvania-University of Wisconsin-Fermilab (HPWF) and the California Institute of Technology-Fermilab (CT-F) collaborations 1 " 9 of new phenomena in charged-current neutrino scattering. By not neglecting the mass 10 of a heavy produced quark in the quark-parton model, it is possible to show that the V data contain substantial evidence of a quark d' of mass 4-5 GeV/c 2 with a right-handed coupling to u quarks. If there is a quark u' with a right-handed coupling to d quarks, its mass is greater than or equal to 3 GeV/c 2 . The d' and u' quarks have charges -\ and +- §, respectively.Crucial to understanding the energy dependence of the V cross sections and of their anomalous y dependence is the manner in which scaling is reassumed after passing quark mass thresholds. The results described here correspond to a slow rescaling and are drastically different from previous work which assumed a fast rescaling. 11,12 Only with this slow rescaling is good agreement obtained with all available data.In the quark-parton model, it is assumed that the structure functions F(z) are functions only of d 2 o dxdy =F{"'-iK <>-$)]}'.<»"-* the scaling variable z. z is defined as the fraction of the target nucleon's momentum which is carried by the struck quark 0 It is further assumed that the quarks are quasifree so that the produced quark is on mass-shell. If the exchanged W boson has momentum k, the struck quark has momentum zp, and the produced mass is neglected, then one findsThe quantity x can be measured experimentally, so that in this case z is known. However, for heavy, produced quarks (m a »0.3 GeV/c 2 ), it is not reasonable to neglect their mass and then z cannot be directly measured. Rather, when m Q is kept, it follows from Eq. (1) that
<=^)-where y = (E -E f )/E, E (£') is the incoming (outgoing) lepton energy, and M is the nucleon mass. Then calculating the cross section and observing that the Callan-Gross relation 13 must be written in terms of z not x, one obtains (3) 1163