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Description
In this talk, I will discuss recent advances in our ability to image parton distribution functions (PDFs) in bound nucleons. I will review topics from last year’s QCD Evolution workshop, such as methods for extracting nuclear-modified PDFs and TMDs. Additionally, I will discuss perturbative approaches that show how the evolution of TMD PDFs in Drell-Yan (p+A) collisions follows a BFKL evolution equation, arising from interactions between the collinear mode and the anti-collinear medium. I will also explore how these methods can be used to study TMD fragmentation functions (FFs) in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) with nuclei. Finally, I will discuss how these techniques can be generalized to other PDFs and how they can aid in imaging the properties of a Quark-Gluon Plasma.
