arXiv:0907.2357·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
PDF Nuclear Corrections for Charged Lepton and Neutrino Deep Inelastic Scattering Processes
I. Schienbein🇫🇷 · J. Y. Yu🇺🇸 · K. Kovarik🇫🇷 · C. Keppel🇺🇸 · J. G. Morfin🇺🇸 · F. Olness🇺🇸 · J.F. Owens🇺🇸
Abstract
We perform a \chi^2-analysis of Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions (NPDFs) using neutral current charged-lepton Deeply Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and Drell-Yan data for several nuclear targets. The nuclear A dependence of the NPDFs is extracted in a next-to-leading order fit. We compare the nuclear corrections factors F2(Fe)/F2(D) for this charged-lepton data with other results from the literature. In particular, we compare and contrast fits based upon the charged-lepton DIS data with those using neutrino-nucleon DIS data.
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