Abstract
Nuclear effects of charged current deep inelastic neutrino‐iron scattering have been studied in the frame‐work of a χ2 analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs)1. A set of iron PDFs have been extracted which are then used to compute xBj‐dependent and Q2‐dependent nuclear correction factors for iron structure functions which are required in global analyses of free nucleon PDFs. Upon comparing our results with nuclear correction factors from neutrino‐nucleus scattering models and correction factors for l±‐iron scattering we find that, except for very high xBj, our correction factors differ in both shape and magnitude from the correction factors of the models and charged‐lepton scattering. The MINERvA neutrino‐nucleus scattering experiment at Fermilab, will systematically study neutrino nuclear effects off of He, C, Fe and Pb for a more thorough A‐dependent study of nuclear PDFs and these correction factors.
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