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The parton distributions functions (PDFs) derived from the NNLO QCD analysis of existing light-targets deep-inelastic-scattering data are presented. The NLO and NNLO PDFs are compared in order to analyze perturbative stability of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Alekhin

In this kick-off presentation for the "Recent developments in QCD" session at Baryons 2025 I will tie together the recent progress made on the extraction of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in lattice QCD and the long standing efforts…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-03 Alexander Rothkopf

We consider double parton distribution functions (dPDFs), essential quantities in double parton scattering (DPS) studies, which encode novel non perturbative insight on the partonic proton structure. We develop the formalism to extract this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Matteo Rinaldi , Federico Alberto Ceccopieri

Heavy quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) play an important role in several Standard Model and New Physics processes. Most analyses rely on the assumption that the charm and bottom PDFs are generated perturbatively by gluon splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-08 Florian Lyonnet , Aleksander Kusina , Tomáš Ježo , Karol Kovařík , Fred Olness , Ingo Schienbein , Ji-Young Yu

We present the first unbiased determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) with electroweak corrections. The aim of this thesis is to provide an exhaustive description of the theoretical framework and the technical implementation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-03 Stefano Carrazza

We show that the parton distribution functions (PDF) described by the statistical model have very interesting physical properties which help to understand the structure of partons. The role of the quark helicity components is emphasized as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-28 Claude Bourrely

Understanding nuclear effects in parton distribution functions (PDF) is an essential component needed to determine the strange and anti-strange quark contributions in the proton. In addition Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions (NPDF) are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 Karol Kovarik

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

Precision determinations of Standard Model (SM) Electro-Weak (EW) parameters at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are dominated by uncertainties due to Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs). Reweighting and profiling techniques are routinely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Juri Fiaschi , Francesco Giuli , Francesco Hautmann , Stefano Moretti

This article is an introduction to parton distribution functions and their generalizations which describe the quark and gluon structure of hadrons, and can be measured in various high-energy scattering processes. We provide the theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-23 Cédric Lorcé , A. Metz , B. Pasquini , P. Schweitzer

Determinations of the proton's collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) are emerging with growing precision due to increased experimental activity at facilities like the Large Hadron Collider. While this copious information is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-24 Bo-Ting Wang , T. J. Hobbs , Sean Doyle , Jun Gao , Tie-Jiun Hou , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Fredrick I. Olness

A precision measurement of the LHC luminosity is a key ingredient for its physics program. In this contribution first of all we review the theoretical accuracy in the computation of LHC benchmark processes. Then we discuss the impact of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-27 Juan Rojo

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are central to precision QCD phenomenology. Their Mellin moments can be computed on the lattice, but direct determinations using local operators, besides $\langle x \rangle$, face severe challenges from…

We study the correlation between different sets of parton distributions (PDFs). Specifically, viewing different PDF sets as distinct determinations, generally correlated, of the same underlying physical quantity, we examine the extent to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-09 Richard D. Ball , Stefano Forte , Roy Stegeman

We present a new set of parton distributions, NNPDF3.1, which updates NNPDF3.0, the first global set of PDFs determined using a methodology validated by a closure test. The update is motivated by recent progress in methodology and available…

W and Z bosons will be produced copiously at the LHC proton-proton collider. We study the parton distribution dependence of the total production cross sections and rapidity distributions, paying particular attention to the uncertainties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 A. D. Martin , R. G. Roberts , W. J. Stirling , R. S. Thorne

Electroweak corrections to hadron collider processes become relevant at the level of precision reached by present-day LHC experiments. We provide a preliminary discussion of the impact of electroweak corrections to parton distributions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-12 Stefano Carrazza

In this document, we summarize the status and challenges of calculating parton physics in lattice QCD for the US Particle Physics Community Planning Exercise (a.k.a. "Snowmass"). While PDF-moments calculations have been very successful and…

We study several sources of theoretical uncertainty in the determination of parton distributions (PDFs) which may affect current PDF sets used for precision physics at the Large Hadron Collider, and explain discrepancies between them. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-09 The NNPDF Collaboration , Richard D. Ball , Valerio Bertone , Luigi Del Debbio , Stefano Forte , Alberto Guffanti , Juan Rojo , Maria Ubiali

Collinear parton distribution functions (cPDFs) and transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) are essential for calculating cross sections in high-energy physics, particularly within collinear and kt-factorization frameworks.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 R. Kord Valeshabadi , S. Rezaie