English

Dynamical parton distribution functions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

Recent measurements for F_2(x,Q^2) have been analyzed in terms of the `dynamical' and `standard' parton model approach at NLO and NNLO of perturbative QCD. Having fixed the relevant NLO and NNLO parton distributions, the implications and predictions for the longitudinal structure function F_L(x,Q^2) are presented. It is shown that the previously noted extreme perturbative NNLO/NLO instability of F_L(x,Q^2) is an artifact of the commonly utilized `standard' gluon distributions. In particular it is demonstrated that using the appropriate -- dynamically generated -- parton distributions at NLO and NNLO, F_L(x,Q^2) turns out to be perturbatively rather stable already for Q^2 \geq O(2-3 GeV^2).

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0812.3250,
  title  = {Dynamical parton distribution functions},
  author = {Cristian Pisano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.3250},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, invited talk given at Ringberg Workshop: New Trends in HERA Physics 2008, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, 5-10 October 2008

R2 v1 2026-06-21T11:53:01.378Z