Applicability of pion–nucleus Drell–Yan data in global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions
Paakkinen, P., Eskola, K., & Paukkunen, H. (2017). Applicability of pion–nucleus Drell–Yan data in global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions. Physics Letters B, 768, 7-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.02.009
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Despite the success of modern nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) in describing nuclear hard-process data, they still suffer from large uncertainties. One of the poorly constrained features is the possible asymmetry in nuclear modifications of valence u and d quarks. We study the possibility of using pion–nucleus Drell–Yan dilepton data as a new constraint in the global analysis of nPDFs. We find that the nuclear cross-section ratios from the NA3, NA10 and E615 experiments can be used without imposing significant new theoretical uncertainties and, in particular, that these datasets may have some constraining power on the u/d-asymmetry in nuclei.
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This research was supported by the Academy of Finland, Project 297058 of K.J.E., and by the European Research Council grant HotLHC ERC-2011-StG-279579 and by Xunta de Galicia (Conselleria de Educacion) – H.P. is part of the Strategic Unit AGRUP2015/11. P.P. gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation.License
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