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We review the current status of the global DGLAP analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions, nPDFs, focusing on the recent EPS09 analysis, whose output, EPS09NLO, is the best-constrained NLO nPDF set on the market. Collinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 K. J. Eskola , H. Paukkunen , C. A. Salgado

In this talk, we introduce our recently completed next-to-leading order (NLO) global analysis of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) called EPS09 - a higher order successor to the well-known leading-order (LO) analysis EKS98…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 H. Paukkunen , K. J. Eskola , C. A. Salgado

The DGLAP analyses of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDF) based on the global fits to the data are reviewed, and the results from EKS98 and HKM are compared. The usefulness of measuring hard probes in $pA$ collisions, at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. J. Eskola , H. Honkanen , V. J. Kolhinen , C. A. Salgado

In this talk, we present the results from our recent global reanalysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), where the DGLAP-evolving nPDFs are constrained by nuclear hard process data from deep inelastic $l+A$ scattering (DIS)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. J. Eskola , V. J. Kolhinen , H. Paukkunen , C. A. Salgado

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

So far the nuclear PDFs (nPDFs) in the global DGLAP fits have been taken to be spatially independent. In this work, using the $A$-dependence of the globally fitted sets EPS09 and EKS98, we have determined the spatial dependence of the nPDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-05 Ilkka Helenius , Kari J. Eskola , Heli Honkanen , Carlos A. Salgado

A brief overview of the global DGLAP analyses of the nuclear parton distribution functions is given. Although all the current global nPDF sets describe $R_{F_2}^A(x,Q^2)$ well in the large-$x$ region where the data exist, variations between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 V. J. Kolhinen

In our recent study we have determined two new spatially dependent nuclear PDF (nPDF) sets, EPS09s and EKS98s. With these, the hard-process cross-sections can be calculated in different centrality classes consistently with the globally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Ilkka Helenius , Kari J. Eskola , Heli Honkanen , Carlos A. Salgado

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

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Kari J. Eskola , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

In this talk, we shortly report results from our recent global DGLAP analysis of nuclear parton distributions. This is an extension of our former EKS98-analysis improved with an automated $\chi^2$ minimization procedure and uncertainty…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. J. Eskola , V. J. Kolhinen , H. Paukkunen , C. A. Salgado

We perform a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) using neutral current charged-lepton ($\ell ^\pm$ + nucleus) deeply inelastic scattering (DIS) data and Drell-Yan (DY) cross-section…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-29 Hamzeh Khanpour , S. Atashbar Tehrani

The recent global analyses of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) lend support to the validity of the factorization theorem of QCD in high-energy processes involving bound nucleons. With a special attention on our latest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-22 Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado , Kari J. Eskola

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 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

As all the globally fitted nuclear PDFs (nPDFs) have been so far impact parameter independent, it has not been possible to calculate the hard process cross sections in different centrality classes consistently with the global analyses. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Ilkka Helenius , Kari J. Eskola , Heli Honkanen , Carlos A. Salgado

In this contribution we present a status report on the recent progress towards an analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) using the NNPDF methodology. We discuss how the NNPDF fitting approach can be extended to account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-15 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Jacob J. Ethier , Juan Rojo

We present three new sets of next-to-leading order parton distribution functions (PDFs) determined by global fits to a wide variety of data for hard scattering processes. The analysis includes target mass and higher twist corrections needed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-15 J. F. Owens , A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk

We present new sets of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). Our analyses are based on deeply inelastic scattering data with charged-lepton and neutrino beams…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-17 Marina Walt , Ilkka Helenius , Werner Vogelsang
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