EPPS16 - Bringing nuclear PDFs to the LHC era
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2018-02-05 v1
Abstract
We report on EPPS16, the first global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) to include LHC data. Also for the first time, a full flavour dependence of nPDFs is allowed. While the included Z and W data are found to have insufficient statistics to yield stringent constraints, the CMS 5.02 TeV proton-lead dijet data prove crucial in setting the shape of nuclear gluon modifications. With these and other observables being measured in proton-lead runs, we are experiencing a shift of nPDFs to the LHC precision era.
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@article{arxiv.1802.00713,
title = {EPPS16 - Bringing nuclear PDFs to the LHC era},
author = {Kari J. Eskola and Petja Paakkinen and Hannu Paukkunen and Carlos A. Salgado},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00713},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures. Prepared for the proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on High-pT Physics in the RHIC/LHC Era