Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1998-07-09
Eur.Phys.J. C9 (1999) 61-68
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
14 pages, including 4 eps-figures
Scientific paper
The scale dependence of the ratios of parton distributions in a proton of a nucleus $A$ and in the free proton, $R_i^A(x,Q^2)=f_{i/A}(x,Q^2)/f_i(x,Q^2)$, is studied within the framework of the lowest order leading-twist DGLAP evolution. By evolving the initial nuclear distributions obtained with the GRV-LO and CTEQ4L sets at a scale $Q_0^2$, we show that the ratios $R_i^A(x,Q^2)$ are only moderately sensitive to the choice of a specific modern set of free parton distributions. We propose that to a good first approximation, this parton distribution set-dependence of the nuclear ratios $R_i^A(x,Q^2)$ can be neglected in practical applications. With this result, we offer a numerical parametrization of $R_i^A(x,Q^2)$ for all parton flavours $i$ in any $A>2$, and at any $10^{-6}\le x \le 1$ and any $Q^2\ge 2.25$ GeV$^2$ for computing cross sections of hard processes in nuclear collisions.
Eskola Kari. J.
Kolhinen Vesa J.
Salgado Carlos A.
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