| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 112, 2016
6th International Conference on Physics Opportunities at an Electron-Ion Collider
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| Article Number | 03002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 9 | |
| Section | High Q² and Electroweak | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611203002 | |
| Published online | 21 March 2016 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611203002
Nuclear Parton Distributions with the LHeC
1 University of Liverpool, Department of Physics, L697ZE Liverpool, Oxford Street, United Kingdom
2 CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
a e-mail: max.klein@cern.ch
Published online: 21 March 2016
Nuclear parton distributions are far from being known today because of an infant experimental base. Based on design studies of the LHeC and using new simulations, of the inclusive neutral and charged current cross section measurements and of the strange, charm and beauty densities in nuclei, it is demonstrated how that energy frontier electron-ion collider would unfold the complete set of nuclear PDFs in a hugely extended kinematic range of deep inelastic scattering, extending in Bjorken x down to values near to 10−6 in the perturbative domain. Together with a very precise and complete set of proton PDFs, the LHeC nPDFs will thoroughly change the theoretical understanding of parton dynamics and structure inside hadrons.
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