Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1849233 Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements 2009 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

We study nuclear effects of charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the framework of a X2 analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs). A set of iron PDFs are extracted and used to compute xBj-dependent and Q2-dependent nuclear correction factors 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 ℓ±-iron scattering. 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.

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