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Constraining the nuclear gluon PDF with inclusive hadron production data
by P. Duwentäster, L. A. Husová, T. Ježo, M. Klasen, K. Kovařík, A. Kusina, K. F. Muzakka, F. I. Olness, I. Schienbein, J.Y. Yu
Submission summary
| As Contributors: | Pit Duwentäster |
| Preprint link: | scipost_202107_00023v1 |
| Date submitted: | 2021-07-14 09:42 |
| Submitted by: | Duwentäster, Pit |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | DIS2021 |
| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
The nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) of gluons are known to be difficult to determine with fits of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and Drell-Yan (DY) data alone. Therefore, the nCTEQ15 analysis of nuclear PDFs added inclusive neutral pion production data from RHIC to help in constraining the gluon. In this analysis, we present a new global analysis of nuclear PDFs based on a much larger set of single inclusive light hadron data from RHIC and the LHC. Using our new nCTEQ code (nCTEQ++) with an optimized version of INCNLO we study systematically the limitations of the theory and the impact of the fragmentation function uncertainty.
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