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A model for nuclear medium modification of parton densities is presented. The approach is based on the global analysis of available deep inelastic scattering data for different nuclear targets within the rescaling model combined with taking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 A. V. Kotikov , A. V. Lipatov

We present the nCTEQ15 global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). The main addition to the previous nCTEQ PDFs is the introduction of PDF uncertainties based on the Hessian method. Another important improvement is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-04 A. Kusina

We discuss the new constraints on gluon parton distribution function (PDF) in lead nucleus, derivable with the Hessian PDF reweighting method from the 5.02 TeV p+Pb measurements of dijet (CMS) and $D^0$-meson (LHCb) nuclear modification…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Kari J. Eskola , Ilkka Helenius , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen

Neutrino Deep Inelastic Scattering on nuclei is an essential process to constrain the strange quark parton distribution functions in the proton. The critical component on the way to using the neutrino DIS data in a proton PDF analysis is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 K. Kovarik

We explain how the constraints from present experimental data can be used to obtain the nPDF in the framework of LO DGLAP evolution. We will also compare the only two available sets of this type and comment on the important information that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 K. J. Eskola , H. Honkanen , V. J. Kolhinen , P. V. Ruuskanen , C. A. Salgado

Nuclear parton distribution functions (NPDFs) are determined by a global analysis of experimental measurements on structure-function ratios F_2^A/F_2^{A'} and Drell-Yan cross section ratios \sigma_{DY}^A/\sigma_{DY}^{A'}, and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai

We review the series of specific nCTEQ analyses of nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) published since 2020 and present preliminary results of a new global analysis. Building on a modern proton baseline without nuclear data and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-08 M. Klasen

We determine the spatial (impact parameter) dependence of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) using the $A$-dependence of the spatially independent (averaged) global fits EPS09 and EKS98. We work under the assumption that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Ilkka Helenius , Kari J. Eskola , Heli Honkanen , Carlos A. Salgado

The $Q^2$ dependence of the ratios of the cross sections of deep inelastic lepton--nucleus scattering is studied in the framework of leading twist, lowest order perturbative QCD. The $\log Q^2$ slope of the ratio $F_2^{\rm Sn}/F_2^{\rm C}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 K. J. Eskola , H. Honkanen , V. J. Kolhinen , C. A. Salgado

We explore the theoretical observation that within the leading twist approximation, the nuclear effects of shadowing and antishadowing in non-perturbative nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at the input QCD evolution scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 L. Frankfurt , V. Guzey , M. Strikman

Global perturbative QCD analyses, based on large data sets from electron-proton and hadron collider experiments, provide tight constraints on the parton distribution function (PDF) in the proton. The extension of these analyses to nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-29 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , Jose Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achim Wiedemann

We show how theoretical uncertainties due to nuclear effects may be incorporated into global fits of proton parton distribution functions (PDFs) that include deep-inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan data on nuclear targets. We specifically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Richard D. Ball , Emanuele R. Nocera , Rosalyn L. Pearson

We report current status of global analyses on nuclear parton distribution functions (NPDFs). The optimum NPDFs are determined by analyzing high-energy nuclear reaction data. Due to limited experimental measurements, antiquark modifications…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , K. Saito

We extract polarized parton distribution functions (PPDFs), referred to as "KTA17," together with the highly correlated strong coupling $\alpha_s$ from recent and up-to-date $g_1$ and $g_2$ polarized structure functions world data at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-07 Hamzeh Khanpour , Sara Taheri Monfared , S. Atashbar Tehrani

Measurements of Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) provide a powerful tool to probe the fundamental structure of protons and other nuclei. The DIS cross sections can be expressed in terms of structure functions which are conventionally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-06 Tuomas Lappi , Heikki Mäntysaari , Hannu Paukkunen , Mirja Tevio

We present a determination of the parton distributions of the nucleon from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology at LO and NNLO in perturbative QCD, thereby generalizing to these orders the NNPDF2.1 NLO parton…

The gluon distribution in nuclei plays a pivotal role in understanding quantum chromodynamics (QCD) under extreme nuclear environments, yet remains poorly constrained compared to quark distributions. Coherent \jpsi photoproduction in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-14 Pengzhong Lu , Zebo Tang , Xin Wu , Wangmei Zha

New hard-scattering measurements from the LHC proton-lead run have the potential to provide important constraints on the nuclear parton distributions and thus contributing to a better understanding of the initial state in heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Nestor Armesto , Juan Rojo , Carlos A. Salgado , Pia Zurita

We extract the ratio of the down (d) and up (u) parton distribution functions (PDF's) from the ratio of deuteron and proton structure function F_2(d)/F_2(p) measured by NMC. We use corrections for nuclear binding effects in the deuteron,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 U. K. Yang , A. Bodek

We show for the first time preliminary results of nuclear parton distribution function analysis of charged lepton DIS and Drell-Yan data within the CTEQ framework including error PDFs. We compare our error estimates to estimates of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-15 K. Kovarik , T. Jezo , A. Kusina , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , T. Stavreva , J. Y. Yu