Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions
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چکیده
We study nuclear e ects of charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the framework of a χ analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs). We extract a set of iron PDFs which are used to compute xBj-dependent and Q -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 neutrinonucleus scattering models and correction factors for `±-iron scattering. We nd that, except for very high xBj , our correction factors di er in both shape and magnitude from the correction factors of the models and chargedlepton scattering.
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