Nuclear Parton Distributions

We review a microscopic model of the nuclear parton distribution functions, which accounts for a number of nuclear effects including Fermi motion and nuclear binding, nuclear meson-exchange currents, off-shell corrections to bound nucleon distributions and nuclear shadowing. We also discuss applications of this model to a number of processes including lepton-nucleus deep inelastic scattering, proton-nucleus Drell-Yan lepton pair production at Fermilab, as well as W+- and Z0 boson production in proton-lead collisions at the LHC.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, invited talk at XXIII International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems "Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics" (September 19--24, 2016, Dubna, Russia), to be published in Proceeding

Deuteron spin structure functions in the resonance and DIS regions

We derive relations between spin-dependent nuclear and nucleon g_1 and g_2 structure functions within the nuclear impulse approximation, which are valid at all Q^2, and in both the resonance and deep inelastic regions. We apply the formalism to the specific case of the deuteron, which is often used as a source of neutron structure information, and compare the size of the nuclear corrections calculated using exact kinematics and using approximations applicable at large Q^2.Comment: 22 pages, 7 figures, Fig. 1 correcte

Spin structure functions of 3He at finite Q^2

Using recently derived relations between spin-dependent nuclear and nucleon g_1 and g_2 structure functions at finite Q^2, we study nuclear effects in 3He in the nucleon resonance and deep inelastic regions. Comparing the finite-Q^2 results with the standard convolution formulas obtained in the large-Q^2 limit, we find significant broadening of the effective nucleon momentum distribution functions, leading to additional suppression of the nuclear g_1 and g_2 structure functions around the resonance peaks.Comment: 33 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.

Nuclear effects and higher twists in F3 structure function

We analyze the CCFR collaboration iron target data on the xF3 structure function making particular emphasis on the extraction of the higher twist contributions from data. Corrections for nuclear effects are applied in order to extract data on the structure function of the isoscalar nucleon. Our analysis confirms the observation made earlier, that the higher twist terms depend strongly on the level to which QCD perturbation theory analysis is applied. We discuss the impact of nuclear effects on the higher twist term as well as on the QCD scale parameter Lambda_{\bar{MS}} extracted from the fit to data.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figure