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PDF Nuclear Corrections for Charged Lepton and Neutrino Deep Inelastic Scattering Processes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-02-11 v2

Abstract

We perform a \chi^2-analysis of Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions (NPDFs) using neutral current charged-lepton Deeply Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and Drell-Yan data for several nuclear targets. The nuclear A dependence of the NPDFs is extracted in a next-to-leading order fit. We compare the nuclear corrections factors F2(Fe)/F2(D) for this charged-lepton data with other results from the literature. In particular, we compare and contrast fits based upon the charged-lepton DIS data with those using neutrino-nucleon DIS data.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2357,
  title  = {PDF Nuclear Corrections for Charged Lepton and Neutrino Deep Inelastic Scattering Processes},
  author = {I. Schienbein and J. Y. Yu and K. Kovarik and C. Keppel and J. G. Morfin and F. Olness and J. F. Owens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2357},
  year   = {2010}
}

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LaTeX, 9 pages, 5 figures; Version 2 contains minor updates to match journal version