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An up-to-date global QCD analysis of high energy lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron interactions is performed to better determine the gluon and quark parton distributions in the nucleon. Improved experimental data on inclusive jet production,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 H. L. Lai , J. Huston , S. Kuhlmann , J. Morfin , F. Olness , J. F. Owens , J. Pumplin , W. K. Tung

High-energy proton-proton collisions at the LHC offer a stringent test of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in the small-$x$, gluon-dominated regime. This study focus on a minimal, gluon-driven framework to describe the charged-particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-26 Zhixiang Yang , Jianhong Ruan

We present results of our recent EPPS16 global analysis of NLO nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). For the first time, dijet and heavy gauge boson production data from LHC proton-lead collisions have been included in a global…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-17 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

In this paper we propose an improvement of the EKS nuclear parton distributions for the small x region of high energy processes, where the perturbative high parton density effects cannot be disregarded. We analyze the behavior of the ratios…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 A. L. Ayala Filho , V. P. Goncalves

We present the polarized parton distribution functions from a QCD analysis of the worldwide polarized deep inelastic scattering data, based on the dynamical parton distribution model. All the sea quarks and gluons are dynamically generated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-23 Chengdong Han , Gang Xie , Rong Wang , Xurong Chen

We present a novel approach to compute Generalized Parton Distributions within the Lightfront Wave Function overlap framework. We show how to systematically extend Generalized Parton Distributions computed within the DGLAP region to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-29 N. Chouika , C. Mezrag , H. Moutarde , J. Rodríguez-Quintero

We present the first determination of parton distributions of the nucleon at NLO and NNLO based on a global data set which includes LHC data: NNPDF2.3. Our data set includes, besides the deep inelastic, Drell-Yan, gauge boson production and…

Global perturbative QCD analyses, based on large data sets from electron-proton and hadron collider experiments, provide tight constraints on the parton distribution function (PDF) in the proton. The extension of these analyses to nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , Jose Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achin Wiedemann

We show for the first time preliminary results of nuclear parton distribution function analysis of charged lepton DIS and Drell-Yan data within the CTEQ framework including error PDFs. We compare our error estimates to estimates of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-15 K. Kovarik , T. Jezo , A. Kusina , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , T. Stavreva , J. Y. Yu

We compare the nuclear corrections factors from neutrino deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) with the ones coming from a standard analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDF). We focus on a discrepancy between the most precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-12 K. Kovarik

Neutrino\antineutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data provide useful constrains for the flavor decomposition in global fits of parton distribution functions (PDF). The smallness of the cross-sections requires the use of nuclear targets…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

We perform the next-to-next-leading-order (NNLO) QCD global fit of PDFs using inclusive charged-lepton and neutrino DIS data down to Q = 1 GeV. We also consider the data on neutrino-nucleon dimuon production, that allows us to disentangle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-28 S. Alekhin , S. Kulagin , R. Petti

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) provide process-independent information about the quarks and gluons inside hadrons. Although the gluon PDF can be obtained from a global fit to experimental data, it is not constrained well in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-09 Zhouyou Fan , Rui Zhang , Huey-Wen Lin

An overview of recent results with CLAS is presented with emphasis on nucleon resonance studies, nucleon spin structure, and generalized parton distributions.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-13 Volker D. Burkert

The presence of nuclear medium and collective phenomena which involve several nucleons modify the parton distribution functions of nuclei (nPDFs) compared to those of a free nucleon. These modifications have been investigated by different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-11 H. Honkanen , M. Strikman , V. Guzey

We present a global determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) that accounts for higher twist corrections in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) and linear power corrections for single inclusive jet and dijet production data from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-26 Richard D. Ball , Amedeo Chiefa , Roy Stegeman

A mini-review on the status of global analyses of nuclear parton distribution functions is given, focusing on the most relevant constraints for the hard-probes phenomenology in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-01 Petja Paakkinen

We briefly report on a recent computation, with the help of a fruitful algebraic model, sketching the pion valence dressed-quark generalized parton distribution. Then, preliminary, we introduce on a sensible procedure to get reliable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-06 N. Chouika , C. Mezrag , H. Moutarde , J. Rodríguez-Quintero

We review progress in the global QCD analysis by the CTEQ-TEA group since the publication of CT18 parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton. Specifically, we discuss comparisons of CT18 NNLO predictions with the LHC 13 TeV…

Coherent Deeply virtual Compton scattering off the $^4$He nucleus is studied in impulse approximation. A convolution formula for the nuclear Generalized Parton Distribution (GPD) is derived in terms of the $^4$He non-diagonal spectral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Sara Fucini , Sergio Scopetta , Michele Viviani