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NNLO nuclear parton distribution functions with electroweak-boson production data from the LHC (2022)


Helenius, I., Walt, M., & Vogelsang, W. (2022). NNLO nuclear parton distribution functions with electroweak-boson production data from the LHC. Physical Review D, 105(9), Article 094031. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.094031


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All authors or editorsHelenius, Ilkka; Walt, Marina; Vogelsang, Werner

Journal or seriesPhysical Review D

ISSN2470-0010

eISSN2470-0029

Publication year2022

Publication date24/05/2022

Volume105

Issue number9

Article number094031

PublisherAmerican Physical Society (APS)

Publication countryUnited States

Publication languageEnglish

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.094031

Publication open accessOpenly available

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Publication is parallel published (JYX)https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/82552

Publication is parallel publishedhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11904


Abstract

We present new sets of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Our analyses are based on deeply inelastic scattering data with charged-lepton and neutrino beams on nuclear targets, and experimental data from measurements of W±,Z boson production in p+Pb collisions at the LHC. In addition, a set of proton baseline PDFs is fitted within the same framework and with the same theoretical assumptions. The results of our global QCD analysis are compared to existing nPDF sets and to the previous nPDF set TUJU19, which was based on deep-inelastic scattering data only. Our work is performed using an open-source tool, xFitter, and the required extensions of the code are discussed as well. We find good agreement with the data included in the fit and a lower value for χ2/Ndp when performing the fit at next-to-next-to-leading order. We apply the resulting nuclear PDFs to electroweak boson production in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC and compare the results to the most recent data from ATLAS and CMS.


Keywordsnuclear physicsparticle physicsquantum chromodynamics


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