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Nuclear parton distribution functions and their uncertainties

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PHYSICAL REVIEW C
Volume 70, Issue 4, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.70.044905

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We analyze experimental data of nuclear structure-function ratios F-2(A)/F-2(A)' and Drell-Yan cross section ratios for obtaining optimum parton distribution functions (PDFs) in nuclei. Then, uncertainties of the nuclear PDFs are estimated by the Hessian method. Valence-quark distributions are determined by the F-2 data at large x; however, the small-x part is not obvious from the data. On the other hand, the antiquark distributions are determined well at xsimilar to0.01 from the F-2 data and at xsimilar to0.1 by the Drell-Yan data; however, the large-x behavior is not clear. Gluon distributions cannot be fixed by the present data and they have large uncertainties in the whole x region. Parametrization results are shown in comparison with the data. We provide a useful code for calculating nuclear PDFs at given x and Q(2).

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