Speaker
Dr
Paloma Quiroga
(University of Santiago di Compostela)
Description
The factorization of long-range phenomena into process-independent parton distributions, which underlies global PDF extractions for the proton, is assumed to extend to nuclear effects in the extraction of nuclear PDFs. As a consequence, assessing the reliability of nPDFs for benchmark calculations goes beyond testing the numerical accuracy of their extraction and requires phenomenological tests of the factorization assumption. We argue that a proton-nucleus collision program at the LHC would provide a set of measurements allowing for unprecedented tests of the factorization assumption underlying global nPDF fits.
Primary author
Dr
Paloma Quiroga
(University of Santiago di Compostela)
