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SAGA-HE-181-01 September 12, 2001 Determination of 1 0 Parton Distribution Functions 0 2 in Nuclei p e S 8 S. Kumano ∗ 1 1 v Department of Physics 2 Saga University 5 1 Saga, 840-8502, Japan 9 0 1 0 / h p Talk given at the 6th Workshop on - p Non-Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics e h : Paris, France, June 5 - 9, 2001 v i (talk on June 8, 2001) X r a * Email: kumanos@cc.saga-u.ac.jp, URL: http://hs.phys.saga-u.ac.jp. to be published in proceedings DETERMINATION OF PARTON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS IN NUCLEI S. KUMANO Department of Physics, Saga University, Saga, 840-8502, Japan Email: kumanos@cc.saga-u.ac.jp, URL: http://hs.phys.saga-u.ac.jp Nuclear parton distribution functions are obtained by a χ2 analysis of lepton deep inelastic experimental data. It is possible to determine valence-quark distributions at medium x and antiquark distributions at small x; however, the distributions in other x regions and gluon distributions cannot be fixed. We need a variety of experimental data and also further analysis refinements. 1 Introduction Nuclear parton distributions are used inevitably for calculating high-energy nuclear cross sections; however, precise distributions are not obtained yet. On the other hand, heavy-ion reactions have been investigated for fi