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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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author Schienbein, I.
Yu, J.Y.
Keppel, C.
Morfin, J.G.
Olness, Fredrick I.
Owens, J.F.
author_facet Schienbein, I.
Yu, J.Y.
Keppel, C.
Morfin, J.G.
Olness, Fredrick I.
Owens, J.F.
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description 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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spelling cern-11084172023-03-12T04:43:24Zdoi:10.3360/dis.2008.33http://cds.cern.ch/record/1108417engSchienbein, I.Yu, J.Y.Keppel, C.Morfin, J.G.Olness, Fredrick I.Owens, J.F.Parton distribution function uncertainties and nuclear corrections for the LHCParticle Physics - PhenomenologyWe 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.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.arXiv:0806.0723CERN-PH-TH-2008-122oai:cds.cern.ch:11084172008-06-05
spellingShingle Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Schienbein, I.
Yu, J.Y.
Keppel, C.
Morfin, J.G.
Olness, Fredrick I.
Owens, J.F.
Parton distribution function uncertainties and nuclear corrections for the LHC
title Parton distribution function uncertainties and nuclear corrections for the LHC
title_full Parton distribution function uncertainties and nuclear corrections for the LHC
title_fullStr Parton distribution function uncertainties and nuclear corrections for the LHC
title_full_unstemmed Parton distribution function uncertainties and nuclear corrections for the LHC
title_short Parton distribution function uncertainties and nuclear corrections for the LHC
title_sort parton distribution function uncertainties and nuclear corrections for the lhc
topic Particle Physics - Phenomenology
url https://dx.doi.org/10.3360/dis.2008.33
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1108417
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