Nuclear PDFs in the beginning of the LHC era

Abstract

The status of the global fits of nuclear parton distributions (nPDFs) is reviewed. In addition to comparing the contemporary analyses of nPDFs, difficulties and controversies posed by the neutrino-nucleus deeply inelastic scattering data is overviewed. At the end, the first dijet data from the LHC proton+lead collisions is briefly discussed.

Comments: Transcription of the talk given in the IS2013 conference, Isla de la Toja, Spain. Revised version. To appear in Nuclear Physics A