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The impact of isolated-photon data from proton-(anti)proton collisions at RHIC, SppbarS, Tevatron and LHC energies, on the parton distribution functions of the proton is studied using a recently developed Bayesian reweighting method. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-23 David d'Enterria , Juan Rojo

Nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs), collinearly factorizable in perturbative QCD (pQCD), are currently extracted most reliably from global analyses of experimental data. Recently, the progress in this field has been driven…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-17 Petja Paakkinen

Measurements of dilepton production from charm decay and Drell-Yan processes respectively probe the gluon and sea quark distributions in hadronic collisions. In nucleus-nucleus collisions, these hard scattering processes constitute a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Gavin , P. L. McGaughey , P. V. Ruuskanen , R. Vogt

Nuclear parton distribution functions (NPDFs) are investigated by analyzing the data on structure functions F_2^A and Drell-Yan cross sections sigma_{DY}^{pA}. An important point of this analysis is to show uncertainties of the NPDFs by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai

We perform the first global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the pion, combining $\pi A$ Drell-Yan data with leading neutron electroproduction from HERA within a Monte Carlo approach based on nested sampling.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-17 P. C. Barry , N. Sato , W. Melnitchouk , Chueng-Ryong Ji

We present MAPPDFpol1.0, a new determination of the helicity-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton from a set of longitudinally polarised inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering data. The determination…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 MAP , Collaboration , : , Valerio Bertone , Amedeo Chiefa , Emanuele R. Nocera

We study the prospects for constraining the nuclear parton distribution functions by small-x deep inelastic scattering. Performing a global fit of nuclear parton distribution functions including a sample of pseudodata representing expected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Hannu Paukkunen , Kari J. Eskola , Néstor Armesto

We discuss the main features of the recent NNPDF2.1 NLO set, a determination of parton distributions from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology including heavy quark mass effects. We present the implications for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-07 Francesco Cerutti

We compare predictions for high energy neutrino and anti-neutrino deep inelastic scattering cross-sections within the conventional DGLAP formalism of next-to-leading order QCD, using the latest parton distribution functions such as CT10,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Amanda Cooper-Sarkar , Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

The results of our new QCD analysis of helicity parton distributions of the nucleon at full next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy in the fixed-flavor number scheme will be presented. Performing a combined QCD fit on the global sets of latest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-12 Fatemeh Arbabifar , Ali N. Khorramian , Maryam Soleymaninia

Reconstructing the internal three-dimensional quark and gluon structures of hadrons through generalized parton distributions (GPDs) from hard exclusive scattering processes is one of the most challenging tasks in nuclear and particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-13 Jian-Wei Qiu , Nobuo Sato , Zhite Yu

We show how theoretical uncertainties due to nuclear effects may be incorporated into global fits of proton parton distribution functions (PDFs) that include deep-inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan data on nuclear targets. We specifically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Richard D. Ball , Emanuele R. Nocera , Rosalyn L. Pearson

We determine the pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) from its light-front wave functions, obtained using the holographic Schr\"odinger equation of light-front chiral QCD combined with the 't Hooft equation in (1+1)-dimensional QCD at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Jiangshan Lan , Satvir Kaur , Chandan Mondal

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

The NNPDF collaboration has recently presented NNPDF3.1, a new determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton including a number of new data, some of which are particularly sensitive to the gluon PDF at large x. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-25 Emanuele R. Nocera , Maria Ubiali

We perform a comprehensive global QCD analysis of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs), combining all available data on inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), as well as inclusive weak boson and jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 C. Cocuzza , N. T. Hunt-Smith , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato , A. W. Thomas

We use the nCTEQ analysis framework to investigate nuclear Parton Distribution Functions (nPDFs) in the region of large x and intermediate-to-low $Q$, with special attention to recent JLab Deep Inelastic Scattering data on nuclear targets.…

We investigate impact of $\pi^0$-production data at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and future E07-011 experiment for the structure function $g_1$ of the deuteron at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , Asymmetry Analysis Collaboration

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

A new generation of parton distribution functions with increased precision and quantitative estimates of uncertainties is presented. This work includes a full treatment of available experimental correlated systematic errors for both new and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wu-Ki Tung