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Nuclear Effects In The Deuteron And Global Pdf Fits, S. I. Alekhin, S. A. Kulagin, Roberto Petti Apr 2016

Nuclear Effects In The Deuteron And Global Pdf Fits, S. I. Alekhin, S. A. Kulagin, Roberto Petti

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We present a detailed study of nuclear corrections in the deuteron (D) from an analysis of data from charged-lepton deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) off proton and D, as well as from dimuon pair production in pp and pD collisions and W± and the Z boson production at pp (p¯p) colliders. In particular, we discuss the determination of the off-shell function describing the modification of parton distributions (PDF) in bound nucleons in the context of global PDF fits. Our results are consistent with the ones obtained earlier from the study of the ratios of DIS structure functions A 2 / F …


Nucleon Pdf Separation With The Collider And Fixed-Target Data, Sergey Alekhin, Johannes Blümlein, Kristin Lohwasser, Lea Michaela Caminada, Katerina Lipka, Ringaile Plačakytė, Sven-Olaf Moch, Roberto Petti Apr 2016

Nucleon Pdf Separation With The Collider And Fixed-Target Data, Sergey Alekhin, Johannes Blümlein, Kristin Lohwasser, Lea Michaela Caminada, Katerina Lipka, Ringaile Plačakytė, Sven-Olaf Moch, Roberto Petti

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We consider the impact of the recent data obtained by the LHC, Tevatron, and fixed-target experiments on the nucleon quark distributions with a particular focus on disentangling different quark species. An improved determination of the poorly known strange sea distribution is obtained due to including data from the neutrino-induced deep-inelastic scattering experiments NOMAD and CHORUS. The impact of the associated (W + c) production data by CMS and ATLAS on the strange sea determination is also studied and a comparison with earlier results based on the collider data is discussed. Finally, the recent LHC and Tevatron data on …