Speaker
Maria Zurita
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
Description
One of the goals of the proton-lead run at the LHC is to produce a benchmark for heavy-ion collisions. Preliminary analyzes hint that nPDFs fail to give a proper description for certain observables. Here we present a full study of the compatibility between current sets of initial state nuclear distributions and data from the LHC p-Pb run. By means of reweighting techniques [1,2] we give a quantitative estimate of the modification of nPDFs due to the novel proton-lead data, and also determine wether or not performing a new extraction of nPDFs is mandatory at this point.
[1] H. Paukkunen and P. Zurita. JHEP 1412 (2014) 100.
[2] N. Armesto, J. Rojo, C.A. Salgado and P. Zurita. JHEP 1311 (2013) 015.
Authors
Hannu Paukkunen
(University of Jyväskylä)
Mr
José Manuel Penín
(University of Santiago de Compostela)
Maria Zurita
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
Nestor Armesto Perez
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
