Heavy Ion Tea

    Tuesday, April 19, 2011 3:00 pm, Pers Hall Conf Room

    Nuclear modifications of structure functions
    Prof. Roberto Petti (University of South Carolina)

    Abstract: We discuss nuclear modifications of structure functions in different kinematic regions of x and Q^2 and the results of a model which takes into account a number of different nuclear effects including nuclear shadowing, Fermi motion and binding, nuclear pion excess and off-shell correction to bound nucleon structure functions. We compare our predictions to the the recent data samples and discuss a number of applications including d/u extraction, nuclear parton distributions, Drell-Yan production and (anti)-neutrino cross-sections.