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Parton distribution function uncertainties and nuclear corrections for the LHC

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 fun...

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Autores principales: Schienbein, I., Yu, J.Y., Keppel, C., Morfin, J.G., Olness, Fredrick I., Owens, J.F.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.3360/dis.2008.33
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1108417
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Sumario: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.