https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6905-2
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Constraints on nuclear parton distributions from dijet photoproduction at the LHC
1
Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
2
Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
3
National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), Gatchina, 188300, Russia
4
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 9, 48149, Münster, Germany
* e-mail: guzey_va@nrcki.pnpi.ru
Received:
19
February
2019
Accepted:
27
April
2019
Published online:
8
May
2019
Using QCD calculations of the cross section of inclusive dijet photoproduction in Pb–Pb ultraperipheral collisions in the LHC kinematics as pseudo-data, we study the effect of including these data using the Bayesian reweighting technique on nCTEQ15, nCTEQ15np, and EPPS16 nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). We find that, depending on the assumed error of the pseudo-data, it leads to a significant reduction of the nPDF uncertainties at small values of the momentum fraction 
. Taking the error to be 5%, the uncertainty of nCTEQ15 and nCTEQ15np nPDFs reduces approximately by a factor of two at 
. At the same time, the reweighting effect on EPPS16 nPDFs is much smaller due to the higher value of the tolerance and a more flexible parametrization form.
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