Seminar in Hadronic Physics

Nuclear modification of hadronic structure: status and prospect

Pia Zurita

Regensburg University

It has been known for decades that data taken in high-energy processes in the presence of a nuclear medium present non-trivial deviations from the single hadron case. From purely phenomenological perspective, these can be described by the introduction of nuclear parton density functions (nPDFs). Just as in the case of the free proton, nPDFs are universal, non-perturbative objects to be determined from global fits to available data. In this talk I will discuss the strategies used in the extraction of collinear nPDFs, their status and the possibilities that current and future experiments have for their improvement.