Leading twist nuclear shadowing and quark and gluon distributions in nuclei

Vadim Guzey
Jefferson Lab

Nuclear shadowing is a high-energy (small Bjorken x)
coherent phenomenon that suppresses nuclear structure functions and
parton distributions accessed in various hard processes with nuclei
compared to those in the free proton case.
I will present our approach to nuclear shadowing
which we call the leading twist theory of nuclear shadowing and
discuss its important predictions for the usual, diffractive,
and generalized parton distributions in nuclei at small x.