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We briefly discuss some of the developments since the publication of the MMHT14 parton distributions. In particular we explore the impact of recent LHC data for $W^\pm,Z$ and $t\bar{t}$ production, and perform a preliminary new analysis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin , R. S. Thorne

The effective cross section of double parton scattering in high-energy hadron collisions has been measured in proton--proton collisions, with significant variation among final-state observables, contrary to the idea of a universal value.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-14 Joao Vitor C. Lovato , Edgar Huayra , Emmanuel G. de Oliveira

We report current status of global analyses on nuclear parton distribution functions (NPDFs). The optimum NPDFs are determined by analyzing high-energy nuclear reaction data. Due to limited experimental measurements, antiquark modifications…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , K. Saito

We report on EPPS16, the first global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) to include LHC data. Also for the first time, a full flavour dependence of nPDFs is allowed. While the included Z and W data are found to have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-05 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

A brief overview of the global DGLAP analyses of the nuclear parton distribution functions is given. Although all the current global nPDF sets describe $R_{F_2}^A(x,Q^2)$ well in the large-$x$ region where the data exist, variations between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 V. J. Kolhinen

We report on an analysis of the impact of available experimental data on hard processes in proton-lead collisions during Run I at the Large Hadron Collider on nuclear modifications of parton distribution functions. Our analysis is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Néstor Armesto , Hannu Paukkunen , José Manuel Penín , Carlos A. Salgado , Pía Zurita

As data become more precise, estimating theoretical uncertainties in global PDF determinations is likely to become increasingly necessary to obtain correspondingly precise PDFs. Here we present a next generation of global proton PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-03 Rosalyn L. Pearson , Richard D. Ball , Emanuele R. Nocera

We present the nCTEQ15 global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). The main addition to the previous nCTEQ PDFs is the introduction of PDF uncertainties based on the Hessian method. Another important improvement is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-04 A. Kusina

We present the first global analysis of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) combing lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculations and experiment measurements including global parton distribution functions (PDFs), form factors (FFs)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-13 Yuxun Guo , Xiangdong Ji , M. Gabriel Santiago , Kyle Shiells , Jinghong Yang

This document is intended as a study of benchmark cross sections at the LHC (at 7 TeV) at NLO using modern parton distribution functions currently available from the 6 PDF fitting groups that have participated in this exercise. It also…

Precision electroweak tests are a powerful probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, but the sensitivity is limited by the precision with which the $W$ boson mass ($M_W$) has been measured. The Parton Distribution Function (PDF)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-21 Stephen Farry , Olli Lupton , Martina Pili , Mika Vesterinen

We report a parton distribution function (PDF) analysis of a complete set of hadron scattering data, in which a color-octet fermion (such as a gluino of supersymmetry) is incorporated as an extra parton constituent along with the usual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-20 Edmond L. Berger , Marco Guzzi , Hung-Liang Lai , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Fredrick I. Olness

A discussion is presented of the manner in which uncertainties in parton distributions and related quantities are determined. One of the central problems is the criteria used to judge what variation of the parameters describing a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. S. Thorne , H. Boettcher , A. M. Cooper-Sarkar , B. Reisert , V. Shekelyan , W. J. Stirling , D. R. Stump , A. Vogt

We present the new nCTEQ15 set of nuclear parton distribution functions with uncertainties. This fit extends the CTEQ proton PDFs to include the nuclear dependence using data on nuclei all the way up to 208^Pb. The uncertainties are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 K. Kovarik , A. Kusina , T. Jezo , D. B. Clark , C. Keppel , F. Lyonnet , J. G. Morfin , F. I. Olness , J. F. Owens , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

We provide an analysis of the x-dependence of the bare unpolarized, helicity and transversity iso-vector parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice calculations employing (maximally) twisted mass fermions. The x-dependence of the…

The precise knowledge of parton distribution functions (PDFs) is indispensable to the accurate calculation of hadron-initiated QCD hard scattering observables. Much of our information on PDFs is extracted by comparing deep inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-03 David Westmark

We present the software framework underlying the NNPDF4.0 global determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs). The code is released under an open source licence and is accompanied by extensive documentation and examples. The code…

We investigate the impact of the latest gluon parton results from lattice QCD on the global parton distribution function (PDF) analysis within the CTEQ-TEA framework. The dependence on PDF parameterization is explored using the CT18As…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-18 Alim Ablat , Sayipjamal Dulat , Tie-Jiun Hou , Huey-Wen Lin , Keping Xie , C. -P. Yuan

We present the new CTEQ-TEA global analysis of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In this analysis, parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon are determined within the Hessian method at the next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) in…

We compare predictions of nCTEQ15 nuclear parton distribution functions with proton-lead vector boson production data from the LHC. We select data sets that are most sensitive to nuclear PDFs and have potential to constrain them. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Kusina , F. Lyonnet , D. B. Clark , E. Godat , T. Jezo , K. Kovarik , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu