2008/06/04 by I. Schienbein, Schienbein, I., J. Y. Yu +11
Physics and Astronomy · #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0806.0723
4 pages, 2 Figures. Talk given at the XLIIIth Rencontres de Moriond QCD and High Energy Interactions. Talk given at the 16th International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering (DIS2008)
arxiv created 2008/06/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We study nuclear effects of charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the framework of a chi2 analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs). We extract a set of iron PDFs which are used to compute xBj-dependent and Q2-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 neutrino-nucleus scattering models and correction factors for charged lepton-iron scattering. We find that, except for very high xBj, our correction factors differ in both shape and magnitude from the correction factors of the models and charged-lepton scattering.