Nuclear PDFs from neutrino deep inelastic scattering

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dc.creatorSchienbein, I.
dc.creatorYu, J. Y.
dc.creatorKeppel, C.
dc.creatorMorfin, J. G.
dc.creatorOlness, Fredrick I.
dc.creatorOwens, J. F.
dc.date2007-10-25
dc.date2008-04-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:12:37Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:12:37Z
dc.descriptionWe study nuclear effects in charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the frame-work of a chi^2 analysis of parton distribution functions. We extract a set of iron PDFs and show that under reasonable assumptions it is possible to constrain the valence, light sea and strange quark distributions. Our iron PDFs 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.
dc.description25 pages, 10 figures; minor updates to match published version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4897
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4897
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D77:054013,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.054013
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/191439
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleNuclear PDFs from neutrino deep inelastic scattering
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