The improved nuclear parton distributions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-01-07 v1
Abstract
In this paper we propose an improvement of the EKS nuclear parton distributions for the small x region of high energy processes, where the perturbative high parton density effects cannot be disregarded. We analyze the behavior of the ratios and and verify that at small x they are strongly modified when compared to the EKS predictions. The implications of our results for the heavy ion collisions in RHIC and LHC are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0101128,
title = {The improved nuclear parton distributions},
author = {A. L. Ayala Filho and V. P. Goncalves},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0101128},
year = {2009}
}
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16 pages, 2 figures