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We present a new global QCD analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions. In addition to the most commonly analyzed data sets for deep inelastic scattering of charged leptons off nuclei and Drell Yan di-lepton production, we include…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-18 Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann , Pia Zurita

We have studied the prospects of using the Drell-Yan dilepton process in pion-nucleus collisions as a novel input in the global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). In a NLO QCD framework, we find the measured nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-17 Petja Paakkinen , Kari J. Eskola , Hannu Paukkunen

We present results of our recent EPPS16 global analysis of NLO nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). For the first time, dijet and heavy gauge boson production data from LHC proton-lead collisions have been included in a global…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-17 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

We present a model-independent determination of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) using machine learning methods and Monte Carlo techniques based on the NNPDF framework. The neutral-current deep-inelastic nuclear structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Jacob J. Ethier , Juan Rojo , Gijs van Weelden

We present a review of the conceptual basis, present knowledge and recent progress in the field of global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs). After introducing the theoretical foundations and methodological approaches…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-26 M. Klasen , H. Paukkunen

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 the software framework underlying the NNPDF4.0 global determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs). The code is released under an open source licence and is accompanied by extensive documentation and examples. The code…

Nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) can be determined in a global QCD analysis using a wide range of experimental data. In addition to older fixed-target deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan (DY) dilepton production data,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-12 Ilkka Helenius , Marina Walt , Werner Vogelsang

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-09 Ilkka Helenius , Marina Walt , Werner Vogelsang

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 compare the nuclear corrections factors from neutrino deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) with the ones coming from a standard analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDF). We focus on a discrepancy between the most precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-12 K. Kovarik

The prospects for a measurement of nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) at the Large Hadron--Electron Collider are discussed in the light of recent progress made in the front of global analysis of nuclear PDFs.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-12 Hannu Paukkunen

Understanding nuclear effects in parton distribution functions (PDF) is an essential component needed to determine the strange and anti-strange quark contributions in the proton. In addition Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions (NPDF) are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 Karol Kovarik

Despite the success of modern nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) in describing nuclear hard-process data, they still suffer from large uncertainties. One of the poorly constrained features is the possible asymmetry in nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-15 Petja Paakkinen , Kari J. Eskola , Hannu Paukkunen

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

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-07 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , José Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achim Wiedemann

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 recent progress towards a global determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) at approximate N$^3$LO (aN$^3$LO) accuracy within the NNPDF framework. We construct a parametrisation of the $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^4)$ QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-28 Felix Hekhorn , Giacomo Magni

We present a first determination of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDF) based on the NNPDF methodology: nNNPDF1.0. This analysis is based on neutral-current deep-inelastic structure function data and is performed up to NNLO in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-23 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Jacob J. Ethier , Juan Rojo

We present the first official release of the nCTEQ nuclear parton distribution functions with errors. The main addition to the previous nCTEQ PDFs is the introduction of PDF uncertainties based on the Hessian method. Another important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-17 A. Kusina , K. Kovarik , T. Jezo , D. B. Clark , C. Keppel , F. Lyonnet , J. G. Morfin , F. I. Olness , J. F. Owens , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu