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We investigate the potential of inclusive-jet production in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) at a future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) to improve our current knowledge of nuclear parton density functions (PDFs). We demonstrate that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-31 M. Klasen , K. Kovarik , J. Potthoff

In this work we present dipole scattering amplitudes, including the dependence on the impact-parameter, for a variety of nuclear targets of interest for the electron-ion colliders (EICs) being currently designed. These amplitudes are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 J. Cepila , J. G. Contreras , M. Matas

The impact of isolated-photon data from proton-(anti)proton collisions at RHIC, SppbarS, Tevatron and LHC energies, on the parton distribution functions of the proton is studied using a recently developed Bayesian reweighting method. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-23 David d'Enterria , Juan Rojo

In this paper, we present nuclear structure functions calculated from the impact-parameter dependent solution of the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with our recently proposed set of nuclear initial conditions. We calculate the results with and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Jan Cepila , Marek Matas

The impact of nonlinear effects in the diffractive observables that will be measured in future electron-ion collisions is investigated. We present, for the first time, the predictions for the diffractive structure function and reduced cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 D. Bendova , J. Cepila , J. G. Contreras , V. P. Goncalves , M. Matas

A simple model for nuclear structure functions in the region of small $x$ and small and moderate $Q^2$, is presented. It is a parameter-free extension, in the Glauber-Gribov approach to nuclear collisions, of a saturation model for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Armesto

We study nuclear effects of charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the framework of a chi^2 analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs). We extract a set of iron PDFs which are used to compute x_Bj-dependent and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu , C. Keppel , J. G. Morfin , F. Olness , J. F. Owens

We present an updated determination of nuclear parton distributions (nPDFs) from a global NLO QCD analysis of hard processes in fixed-target lepton-nucleus and proton-nucleus together with collider proton-nucleus experiments. In addition to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-27 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Rhorry Gauld , Tommaso Giani , Emanuele R. Nocera , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara , Juan Rojo

The presence of nuclear medium and collective phenomena which involve several nucleons modify the parton distribution functions of nuclei (nPDFs) compared to those of a free nucleon. These modifications have been investigated by different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-11 H. Honkanen , M. Strikman , V. Guzey

It is already known from phenomenological studies that in exclusive deep-inelastic scattering off nuclei there appears to be a scaling behavior of vector meson production cross section in both nuclear mass number, $A$, and photon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-06 Gregory Matousek , Vladimir Khachatryan , Jinlong Zhang

We studied the impact of future Electron Ion Collider inclusive and semi-inclusive polarized deep inelastic scattering data will have on the determination of the helicity parton distributions. Supplementing the Monte Carlo sampling variant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-17 Elke C. Aschenauer , Ignacio Borsa , Gonzalo Lucero , Ana S. Nunes , Rodolfo Sassot

We propose a new method to determine the spatially or impact-parameter dependent nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) using the double parton scattering (DPS) processes in high-energy heavy-ion (proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-27 Hua-Sheng Shao

The determination of non-linear corrections to the nuclear distribution functions due to the HIJING parametrization within the framework of perturbative QCD, specifically the GLR-MQ equations, is discussed. We analyze the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 G. R. Boroun

Electroweak corrections to hadron collider processes become relevant at the level of precision reached by present-day LHC experiments. We provide a preliminary discussion of the impact of electroweak corrections to parton distributions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-12 Stefano Carrazza

Di-hadron and di-jet correlation measurements in proton-nucleus ($p$+A) and electron--nucleus collisions are widely motivated as sensitive probes of novel, non-linear QCD saturation dynamics in hadrons, which are particularly accessible in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-05 Dennis V. Perepelitsa

We study nuclear effects in charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the frame-work of a chi^2 analysis of parton distribution functions. We extract a set of iron PDFs and show that under reasonable assumptions it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu , C. Keppel , J. G. Morfin , Fredrick I. Olness , J. F. Owens

A precise knowledge of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) is -- among other things -- important for the unambiguous interpretation of hard process data taken in pA and AA collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-02 nCTEQ Collaboration , P. Duwentäster , L. A. Husová , T. Ježo , M. Klasen , K. Kovařík , A. Kusina , K. F. Muzakka , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

Next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments such as DUNE require percent-level knowledge of neutrino--nucleon interaction cross sections. The nucleon axial form factor $F_A(Q^2)$, parameterized by the axial mass $\MA$, is the dominant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 Guang Yang , Praveen Kumar

We study exclusive vector meson production in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) of a wide range of nuclei, and assess the potential of measurements to constrain the small-$x$ structure of oxygen and neon nuclei. We employ an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 Heikki Mäntysaari , Hendrik Roch , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao

An updated analysis regarding the expected nuclear PDF constraints from the future Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) experiment is presented. The new study is based on a more flexible small-$x$ parametrization which provides less biased…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-30 Ilkka Helenius , Hannu Paukkunen , Nestor Armesto