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Title: nCTEQ15 - Global analysis of nuclear parton distributions with uncertainties

Conference ·
OSTI ID:1224685
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  1. Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble (France)
  2. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster (Germany)
  3. Università di Milano-Bicocca and INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milano (Italy)
  4. Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX (United States)
  5. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
  6. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  7. Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). Dept. of Physics

We present the first official release of the nCTEQ nuclear parton distribution functions with errors. The main addition to the previous nCTEQ PDFs is the introduction of PDF uncertainties based on the Hessian method. Another important addition is the inclusion of pion production data from RHIC that give us a handle on constraining the gluon PDF. This contribution summarizes our results from arXiv:1509.00792 and concentrates on the comparison with other groups providing nuclear parton distributions.

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-06OR23177
OSTI ID:
1224685
Report Number(s):
LPSC-15-181; arXiv:1509.01801; DOE/OR/23177-3590; JLAB-PHY-15-2155; TRN: US1600063
Resource Relation:
Conference: 23rd International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2015), Dallas, TX (United States), 27 Apr - 1 May 2015; Related Information: Proceedings of Science
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English