Global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions at leading and next-to-leading order perturbative QCD
arXiv:0906.2529
Abstract
This is the introductory part of my PhD thesis which consists of two parts, the separate introduction and four published articles. The introduction begins by a technically detailed description of the DGLAP evolution and the fast numerical solving method for the DGLAP equations, which has been used in the numerical works of the published articles of this thesis. A write-up of the next-to-leading order (NLO) calculations for the deeply inelastic scattering (DIS) and the Drell-Yan (DY) dilepton production cross-sections is also included. The formalism of the inclusive single hadron production at NLO is described as well, although less rigorously. The introductory part ends with a discussion of the global QCD analyses in general, with a special attention paid to the major work of this thesis, the NLO analysis of nuclear parton densities and their uncertainties.
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