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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 xGA/xGNxG_A/xG_N and F2A/F2DF_2^A/F_2^D 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.

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@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