https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7720-5
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
The role of transverse momentum on the nuclear valence and sea quark distribution functions
Faculty of physics, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
Received:
22
November
2019
Accepted:
6
February
2020
Published online:
18
February
2020
We investigate the transverse momentum dependence of valence and sea quark distribution functions of light asymmetric nuclei (
and 
). To this end, we first calculate the valence and sea distributions of these nuclei applying a parametrization method in which the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of nucleus are related to those of free nucleon via a weight function that contains the nuclear modifications. Then we obtain the unpolarized transverse momentum dependent (TMD) PDFs of the nucleus using the covariant parton model (CPM) approach. We also compute the valence and sea quark distributions ratios of and to those of deuteron and present the results with respect to x (Bjorken variable) at fixed values of transverse momentum. It is found that these ratios shift to the larger values of x by increasing the transverse momentum value as expected and they are not transverse momentum dependent in large x region.
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