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Nuclear Modification to Parton Distribution Functions and Parton Saturation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We introduce a generalized definition of parton distribution functions (PDFs) for a more consistent all-order treatment of power corrections. We present a new set of modified DGLAP evolution equations for nuclear PDFs, and show that the resummed αsA1/3/Q2\alpha_s A^{1/3}/Q^2-type of leading nuclear size enhanced power corrections significantly slow down the growth of gluon density at small-xx. We discuss the relation between the calculated power corrections and the saturation phenomena.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0702040,
  title  = {Nuclear Modification to Parton Distribution Functions and Parton Saturation},
  author = {Zhong-Bo Kang and Jian-Wei Qiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0702040},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of QM2006

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