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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 12: Invited Talks II

HK 12.3: Invited Talk

Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 12:00–12:30, HSZ/0002

Nuclear parton distribution functions — •Michael Klasen — University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Investigations of the nuclear structure at high energies are not only important for our theoretical understanding of the fundamental quark and gluon dynamics in protons and neutrons bound in nuclei and of the initial conditions for the formation of the quark-gluon plasma, but also for precise predictions of scattering processes studied at the LHC and the future EIC. In this talk, we will review the recent rapid progress in global determinations of nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) from neutral-and charged deep-inelastic scattering, the Drell-Yan process and various hard probes at the LHC. Theoretical developments with respect to correlations with the underlying proton PDFs, saturation, shadowing, short-range correlations of nucleon pairs, higher-order perturbative and lattice QCD will also be briefly discussed.