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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Global analysis of nuclear PDFs – latest developments

Kari J. EskolaKari J. Eskola

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PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsta114010308 nuclear & particles physicsParton01 natural sciencesDistribution functionDGLAP0103 physical sciencesSpatial dependence010306 general physicsCentralityNuclear theory

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Abstract In this review talk I discuss the latest developments in the DGLAP-based global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), focusing on the recent EPS09, nCTEQ and DSSZ global fits. I also briefly review the recent analysis for assigning a spatial dependence to the globally analysed nPDFs, resulting in the new sets EPS09s and EKS98s (“s” for spatial). With these, one can now compute nuclear hard-process cross sections and estimate their nPDF-originating uncertainties in different centrality classes for the first time consistently with the global nPDF fits.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2012.12.029