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We review the theoretical foundations, methodological approaches and current status of the determination of nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs). A large variety of measurements in fixed-target and collider experiments provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 M. Klasen

We present a comprehensive new global QCD analysis of unpolarized parton distribution functions (PDFs) based upon proton, deuteron and $A\!=\!3$ data, including the latest inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) measurements from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 C. Cocuzza , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato , A. W. Thomas

We evaluate the uncertainties due to nuclear effects in global fits of proton parton distribution functions (PDFs) that utilise deep-inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan data on deuterium targets. To do this we use an iterative procedure to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Richard D. Ball , Emanuele R. Nocera , Rosalyn L. Pearson

We present an improved leading-order global DGLAP analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), supplementing the traditionally used data from deep inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering and Drell-Yan dilepton production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 K. J. Eskola , H. Paukkunen , C. A. Salgado

We present an updated global analysis of collinearly factorized nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. In comparison to our previous fit, EPPS16, the present analysis includes more data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

Nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs), collinearly factorizable in perturbative QCD (pQCD), are currently extracted most reliably from global analyses of experimental data. Recently, the progress in this field has been driven…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-17 Petja Paakkinen

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

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 report global analysis results of experimental data for nuclear structure-function ratios F_2^A/F_2^{A'} and proton-nucleus Drell-Yan cross-section ratios sigma_{DY}^{pA}/sigma_{DY}^{pA'} in order to determine optimum parton distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai

We introduce a global analysis of collinearly factorized nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) including, for the first time, data constraints from LHC proton-lead collisions. In comparison to our previous analysis, EPS09, where data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

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

The nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) of gluons are known to be difficult to determine with fits of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and Drell-Yan (DY) data alone. Therefore, the nCTEQ15 analysis of nuclear PDFs added inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-02 P. Duwentäster , L. A. Husová , T. Ježo , M. Klasen , K. Kovařík , A. Kusina , K. F. Muzakka , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

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 present a next-to-leading order (NLO) global DGLAP analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) and their uncertainties. Carrying out an NLO nPDF analysis for the first time with three different types of experimental input…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-22 K. J. Eskola , H. Paukkunen , C. A. Salgado

We discuss consistency of the nuclear effects between the electromagnetic and weak interactions. In order to study a possibility of different nuclear effects in the neutrino DIS process, double differential cross section data are compared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Masanori Hirai

The parton distributions functions (PDFs) derived from the NNLO QCD analysis of existing light-targets deep-inelastic-scattering data are presented. The NLO and NNLO PDFs are compared in order to analyze perturbative stability of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Alekhin

This paper investigates the crucial role of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in high-energy physics, particularly their impact on the extraction of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) at zero skewness. To this aim, we perform six…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 The MMGPDs Collaboration , Fatemeh Irani , Muhammad Goharipour , K. Azizi

In this talk, we present our recent work on next-to-leading order (NLO) nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), which we call EPS09. As an extension to earlier NLO analyses, we complement the deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-17 Kari J. Eskola , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

A new and simple statistical approach is performed to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon in terms of light-front kinematic variables. Analytic expressions of x-dependent PDFs are obtained in the whole x…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-07 Lijing Shao , Yunhua Zhang , Bo-Qiang Ma

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

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