Compatibility of global NPDF analyses of neutrino DIS and charged-lepton DIS data

Abstract

The neutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data is very interesting for global analyses of proton and nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) since they provide crucial information on the strange quark distribution in the proton and allow for a better flavor decompositon of the PDFs. In order to use neutrino DIS data in a global analysis of proton PDFs nuclear effects need to be understood. We study these effects with the help of nuclear PDFs extracted from global analyses of charged-lepton DIS, Drell-Yan and neutrino DIS data at next-to-leading order in QCD.Comment: Contribution to the XXIst International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, 21-27 July 2011, Grenoble, Franc