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New constraints on the up-quark valence distribution in the proton

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-04-19 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The high-xx data from the ZEUS Collaboration are used to extract parton density distributions of the proton deep in the perturbative regime of QCD. The data primarily constrain the up-quark valence distribution and new results are presented on its xx-dependence as well as on the momentum carried by the up-quark. The results were obtained using Bayesian analysis methods which can serve as a model for future parton density extractions.

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@article{arxiv.2209.06571,
  title  = {New constraints on the up-quark valence distribution in the proton},
  author = {Ritu Aggarwal and Michiel Botje and Allen Caldwell and Francesca Capel and Oliver Schulz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.06571},
  year   = {2023}
}

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