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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Nuclear PDFs from the LHeC perspective

Kari J. EskolaNéstor ArmestoHannu Paukkunen

subject

Particle physicsNuclear TheoryFOS: Physical sciencesPartonInelastic scattering01 natural scienceslaw.inventionHigh Energy Physics - ExperimentNuclear physicsNuclear Theory (nucl-th)High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)Perspective (geometry)High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)law0103 physical sciencesNuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)010306 general physicsColliderNuclear ExperimentNuclear theoryNuclear ExperimentPhysics010308 nuclear & particles physicsHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyDeep inelastic scatteringHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyDistribution functionHigh Energy Physics::Experiment

description

We study the prospects for constraining the nuclear parton distribution functions by small-x deep inelastic scattering. Performing a global fit of nuclear parton distribution functions including a sample of pseudodata representing expected measurements at the planned LHeC collider, we demonstrate that the accuracy of the present nuclear parton distributions could be be improved substantially. We also discuss the impact of flavour-tagged data.

https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1306.2486