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Global analyses of nuclear PDFs with heavy-quark and neutrino data
M. Klasen, P. Duwentäster, T. Jezo +8
We discuss the two most recent global analyses of nuclear parton distribution functions within the nCTEQ approach. LHC data on -boson, single-inclusive hadron and heavy quark/…
Theoretical tools for neutrino scattering: interplay between lattice QCD, EFTs, nuclear physics, phenomenology, and neutrino event generators
L. Alvarez Ruso, A. M. Ankowski, S. Bacca +58
Maximizing the discovery potential of increasingly precise neutrino experiments will require an improved theoretical understanding of neutrino-nucleus cross sections over a wide ra…
Impact of W and Z Production Data and Compatibility of Neutrino DIS Data in Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions
K. F. Muzakka, P. Duwentäster, T. J. Hobbs +9
Vector boson production and neutrino deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) data are crucial for constraining the strange quark parton distribution function (PDF) and more generally for f…
nCTEQ15HIX -- Extending nPDF Analyses into the High-, Low Region
E. P. Segarra, T. Ježo, A. Accardi +12
We use the nCTEQ analysis framework to investigate nuclear Parton Distribution Functions (nPDFs) in the region of large x and intermediate-to-low , with special attention to rec…
Summary of the NuSTEC Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Pion Production in the Resonance Region
L. Aliaga, A. Ashkenazi, C. Bronner +20
The NuSTEC workshop held at the University of Pittsburgh in October 2019 brought theorists and experimentalists together to discuss the state of modeling and measurements related t…
Neutrino (Antineutrino)-Nucleus Interactions in the Shallow- and Deep-Inelastic Scattering Regions
M. Sajjad Athar, Jorge G. Morfin
In -N/A interactions SIS is technically defined in terms of the four-momentum transfer to the hadronic system as non-resonant meson production with $Q^2 \lessapprox 1~GeV^…
nCTEQ PDFs at the LHC: Vector boson production in heavy ion collisions
The nCTEQ Collaboration, D. B. Clark, E. Godat +13
Extraction of the strange quark PDF is a long-standing puzzle. We use the nCTEQ nPDFs with uncertainties to study the impact of the LHC W/Z production data on both the flavor diffe…
PDF Flavor Determination and the nCTEQ PDFs
nCTEQ Collaboration, E. Godat, D. B. Clark +12
Recent LHC W/Z vector boson production data in proton-lead collisions are quite sensitive to the heavier flavors (especially the strange PDF), and this complements the information…
NuSTEC White Paper: Status and Challenges of Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
L. Alvarez-Ruso, M. Sajjad Athar, M. B. Barbaro +22
The precise measurement of neutrino properties is among the highest priorities in fundamental particle physics, involving many experiments worldwide. Since the experiments rely on…
nCTEQ15 - Global analysis of nuclear parton distributions with uncertainties
A. Kusina, K. Kovarik, T. Jezo +8
We present the first official release of the nCTEQ nuclear parton distribution functions with errors. The main addition to the previous nCTEQ PDFs is the introduction of PDF uncert…
Nuclear Shadowing in Electro-Weak Interactions
B. Z. Kopeliovich, J. G. Morfin, Ivan Schmidt
Shadowing is a quantum phenomenon leading to a non-additivity of electroweak cross sections on nucleons bound in a nucleus. It occurs due to destructive interference of amplitudes…
Compatibility of global NPDF analyses of neutrino DIS and charged-lepton DIS data
K. Kovarik, I. Schienbein, F. I. Olness +5
The neutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data is very interesting for global analyses of proton and nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) since they provide crucial info…
Nuclear corrections in neutrino-nucleus DIS and their compatibility with global NPDF analyses
K. Kovarik, I. Schienbein, F. Olness +5
We perform a global chi^2-analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions using data from charged current neutrino-nucleus deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), charged-lepton-nucleus…
New parton distributions from large-x and low-Q^2 data
A. Accardi, M. E. Christy, C. E. Keppel +4
We report results of a new global next-to-leading order fit of parton distribution functions in which cuts on W and Q are relaxed, thereby including more data at high values of x.…
PDF Nuclear Corrections for Charged Lepton and Neutrino Deep Inelastic Scattering Processes
I. Schienbein, J. Y. Yu, K. Kovarik +4
We perform a χ^2-analysis of Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions (NPDFs) using neutral current charged-lepton Deeply Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and Drell-Yan data for several nuc…
Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions
I. Schienbein, J. Y. Yu, C. Keppel +3
We study nuclear effects of charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the framework of a chi^2 analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs). We extract a set o…
Parton distribution function uncertainties & nuclear corrections for the LHC
I. Schienbein, J. Y. Yu, C. Keppel +3
We study nuclear effects of charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the framework of a chi^2 analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs). We extract a set o…
Terascale Physics Opportunities at a High Statistics, High Energy Neutrino Scattering Experiment: NuSOnG
T. Adams, P. Batra, L. Bugel +33
This article presents the physics case for a new high-energy, ultra-high statistics neutrino scattering experiment, NuSOnG (Neutrino Scattering on Glass). This experiment uses a Te…
Nuclear PDFs from neutrino deep inelastic scattering
I. Schienbein, J. Y. Yu, C. Keppel +3
We study nuclear effects in charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the frame-work of a chi^2 analysis of parton distribution functions. We extract a set of iron…
The impact of new neutrino DIS and Drell-Yan data on large-x parton distributions
J. F. Owens, J. Huston, C. E. Keppel +5
New data sets have recently become available for neutrino and antineutrino deep inelastic scattering on nuclear targets and for inclusive dimuon production in pp pd interactions. T…
E1 Working Group Summary: Neutrino Factories and Muon Colliders
D. Harris
We are in the middle of a time of exciting discovery, namely that neutrinos have mass and oscillate. In order to take the next steps to understand this potential window onto what w…
The Potential for Neutrino Physics at Muon Colliders and Dedicated High Current Muon Storage Rings
I. Bigi, T. Bolton, J. Formaggio +11
Conceptual design studies are underway for muon colliders and other high-current muon storage rings that have the potential to become the first true ``neutrino factories''. Muon de…
Parton Densitites at High-x
S. Kuhlmann, J. Huston, J. Morfin +5
Reliable knowledge of parton distributions at large x is crucial for many searches for new physics signals in the next generation of collider experiments. Although these are genera…
Large-x Parton Distributions
S. Kuhlmann, J. Huston, J. Morfin +5
Reliable knowledge of parton distributions at large x is crucial for many searches for new physics signals in the next generation of collider experiments. Although these are genera…