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We calculate the electron structure functions, aka parton distribution functions (PDFs), to NNLO in QED. The calculation is based on the definition of the PDFs in terms of operator matrix elements in soft collinear effective theory (SCET)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Maximilian Stahlhofen

Analyzing global data on the EMC effect, which denotes differences in parton distribution functions in nuclei compared to unbound nucleons, reveals tensions. Precise measurements at Jefferson Lab, studying both x and A dependence, show…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-02-28 S. Moran , M. Arratia , J. Arrington , D. Gaskell , B. Schmookler

In this article we obtain a new set of nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs) at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order accuracy in perturbative QCD. The common nuclear deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-17 Hamzeh Khanpour , Maryam Soleymaninia , S. Atashbar Tehrani , Hubert Spiesberger , Vadim Guzey

We study nuclear effects of charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the framework of a chi^2 analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs). We extract a set of iron PDFs which are used to compute x_Bj-dependent and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu , C. Keppel , J. G. Morfin , F. Olness , J. F. Owens

Study of parton distribution functions (PDFs) has led to a finer cognisance of the structure of partons in hadrons and the proton structure functions in deep inelastic scattering (DIS). PDFs are instrumental in predicting results for most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-02 Akbari Jahan , Diptimonta Neog

In this paper, we present a detailed study of the unpolarized nucleon parton distribution function (PDF) employing the approach of parton pseudo-distribution functions. We perform a systematic analysis using three lattice ensembles at two…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-29 Bálint Joó , Joseph Karpie , Kostas Orginos , Anatoly Radyushkin , David Richards , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

Vector meson production in ultra-peripheral pA and AA collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are very sensitive to Parton Distribution Functions (PDF) as well as to their leading-order, next-to-leading-order, and medium…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-08 J. Thomas , C. A. Bertulani , N. Brady , D. B. Clark , E. Godat , F. Olness

Sets of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton are reported for the leading (LO), next-to-leading (NLO) and next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) QCD calculations. The parton distribution functions are determined with the…

We review basic ideas and recent developments on the determination of the parton substructure of the nucleon, in view of applications to precision hadron collider physics. We review the way information on parton distributions (PDFs) is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Stefano Forte

This paper calculates the elastic form factors for nucleons based on generalized parton distributions using an extended new ansatz introduced in http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.025202 (Phys. Rev. C 105, no.2, 025202 (2022)).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-06 Hossein Vaziri , Mohammad Reza Shojaei

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

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

Nuclear modifications to collinear parton distribution functions are conventionally quantified by the ratios $ r^{\textrm{A}}_i(x,Q^2) = f^\textrm{A,proton}_i(x,Q^2) / f^\textrm{proton}_i(x,Q^2) $. For a given nucleus $A$, these ratios…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 Meng-Quan Yang , Peng Ru , Ben-Wei Zhang

We examine the dependence of parton distribution functions (PDFs) on the value of the QCD coupling strength $\alpha_{s}(M_{Z})$. We explain a simple method that is rigorously valid in the quadratic approximation normally applied in PDF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Hung-Liang Lai , Joey Huston , Zhao Li , Pavel Nadolsky , Jon Pumplin , Daniel Stump , C. -P. Yuan

Recently, a novel approach has been proposed to compute parton distributions through the use of boosted correlators fixed in the Coulomb gauge from lattice QCD, within the framework of Large-Momentum Effective Theory (LaMET). This approach…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-02-13 Xiang Gao , Jinchen He , Joshua Lin , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Rui Zhang , Yong Zhao

Nuclear parton distribution functions (NPDFs) are determined by global analyses of experimental data on structure-function ratios F_2^A/F_2^{A'} and Drell-Yan cross-section ratios \sigma_{DY}^A/\sigma_{DY}^{A'}. The analyses are done in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai

Nuclear parton distribution functions (NPDFs) are determined by a global analysis of experimental measurements on structure-function ratios F_2^A/F_2^{A'} and Drell-Yan cross section ratios \sigma_{DY}^A/\sigma_{DY}^{A'}, and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai

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…

A recent study by Wang {\it et al.}(arXiv:2309.01417) proposed a novel connection between the nature of the parton distribution function (PDF) and the characteristics of its moments. In this study, we apply these findings to analyze the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Xiaobin Wang , Zexin Wu , Minghui Ding , Lei Chang

This paper investigates the crucial role of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in high-energy physics, particularly their impact on the extraction of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) at zero skewness. To this aim, we perform six…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 The MMGPDs Collaboration , Fatemeh Irani , Muhammad Goharipour , K. Azizi