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DGLAP evolution at N$^3$LO with the $\texttt{Candia}$ algorithm

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-03-24 v3

Abstract

We present a generalization of the xx-space Candia\texttt{Candia} algorithm to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3^3LO) accuracy in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) for solving the DGLAP evolution equations for unpolarized parton densities in the nucleon. The algorithm is based on logarithmic expansions of the solution and can be extended to all orders in QCD. An expansion equivalent to the exact solution of the DGLAP equation at N3^3LO is presented in the non-singlet sector. Results for approximate N3^3LO PDFs, evolved using the most recent approximations to the N3^3LO DGLAP splitting functions, are provided for benchmarking. The new version of the code, Candia-v2\texttt{Candia-v2}, is publicly available at https://github.com/champso1/candia-v2.

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@article{arxiv.2512.22667,
  title  = {DGLAP evolution at N$^3$LO with the $\texttt{Candia}$ algorithm},
  author = {Casey Hampson and Marco Guzzi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22667},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

26 pages, 2 figures, regular article. Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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