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Nuclear parton distributions at next to leading order

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We perform a next to leading order QCD global analysis of nuclear deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan data using the convolution approach to parameterize nuclear parton densities. We find both a significant improvement in the agreement with data compared to previous extractions, and substantial differences in the scale dependence of nuclear effects compared to leading order analyses.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0311227,
  title  = {Nuclear parton distributions at next to leading order},
  author = {D. de Florian and R. Sassot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0311227},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages, 10 figures