Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions

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2008-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/0812.3370v1

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

11 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Ringberg Workshop "New Trends in HERA Physics 2008"

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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 Q^2-dependent nuclear correction factors for iron structure functions which are required in global analyses of free nucleon PDFs. We compare our results with nuclear correction factors from neutrino-nucleus scattering models and correction factors for charged-lepton--iron scattering. We find that, except for very high x_Bj, our correction factors differ in both shape and magnitude from the correction factors of the models and charged-lepton scattering.

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