Applications of KP Nuclear Parton Distributions

TL;DR

This paper reviews nuclear parton distribution functions derived from a microscopic model, highlighting nuclear effects and their applications to various high-energy processes involving nuclei.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive microscopic model for nuclear PDFs that incorporates multiple nuclear effects and applies it to diverse experimental processes.

Findings

Nuclear effects significantly influence parton distributions in nuclei.

The model successfully describes lepton-nucleus deep inelastic scattering.

Predictions for boson production in proton-lead collisions align with experimental data.

Abstract

We review the nuclear parton distribution functions computed on the basis of our microscopic model taking into account a number of nuclear effects including Fermi motion and nuclear binding, nuclear meson-exchange currents, off-shell corrections to bound nucleon distributions and nuclear shadowing. We discuss applications to a number of different processes including lepton-nucleus deep inelastic scattering, proton-nucleus Drell-Yan lepton pair production at Fermilab, as well as $W^\pm$ and $Z^0$ boson production in proton-lead collisions at the LHC.