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We present the results of a PDF fit to differential top quark production within the MMHT framework. We in particular consider ATLAS data in the lepton + jet and dilepton channels and CMS data in the lepton + jet channel, at 8 TeV. While the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-18 Shaun Bailey , Lucian Harland-Lang

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

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…

We review recent progress in the determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton, with emphasis on the applications for precision phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). First of all, we introduce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-23 Jun Gao , Lucian Harland-Lang , Juan Rojo

The level of precision achieved by the experimental measurements at the LHC requires the inclusion of higher order electroweak effects to the processes of $ pp $ scattering. In particular the photon-induced process $ \gamma\gamma \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-07 Renat Sadykov

In this contribution we present a status report on the recent progress towards an analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) using the NNPDF methodology. We discuss how the NNPDF fitting approach can be extended to account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-15 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Jacob J. Ethier , Juan Rojo

I review recent progress in the determination of the parton structure of the nucleon, in particular from deep-inelastic structure functions. I explain how the needs of current and future precision phenomenology, specifically at the LHC,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Stefano Forte

In this article, we review recent lattice calculations on the $x$-dependence of parton distributions, with the latter providing information on hadron structure. These calculations are based on matrix elements of boosted hadrons coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-03-17 Martha Constantinou

We present NNPDF4.0MC, a variant of the NNPDF4.0 set of parton distributions (PDFs) at LO, NLO and NNLO, with and without inclusion of the photon PDF, suitable for use with Monte Carlo (MC) event generators, which require PDFs to satisfy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-29 Juan Cruz-Martinez , Stefano Forte , Niccolo Laurenti , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara , Juan Rojo

We present an updated global analysis of collinearly factorized nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. In comparison to our previous fit, EPPS16, the present analysis includes more data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

We present a first global determination of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) and their uncertainties using the NNPDF methodology: NNPDFpol1.1. Longitudinally polarized deep-inelastic scattering data, already used for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Emanuele R. Nocera , Richard D. Ball , Stefano Forte , Giovanni Ridolfi , Juan Rojo

We study the potential of the LHCb 13 TeV single $W^{\pm}$ and $Z$ boson pseudo-data for constraining the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton. As an example, we demonstrate the sensitivity of the LHCb 13 TeV data, collected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-26 Qilin Deng , Qundong Han , Hang Yin , Sayipjamal Dulat , Tie-Jiun Hou , C. -P. Yuan

We perform a global QCD analysis of unpolarized parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton, including new $W +$\,charm production data from $pp$ collisions at the LHC and semi-inclusive pion and kaon production data in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 Trey Anderson , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato

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 2008-06-05 I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu , C. Keppel , J. G. Morfin , Fredrick I. Olness , J. F. Owens

We present the MMHT2015qed PDF set, resulting from the inclusion of QED corrections to the existing set of MMHT Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs), and which contain the photon PDF of the proton. Adopting an input distribution from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-10 L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin , R. Nathvani , R. S. Thorne

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 present the first lattice results on isovector unpolarized and longitudinally polarized parton distribution functions (PDFs) at physical pion mass. The PDFs are obtained using the large-momentum effective field theory (LaMET) framework…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-09-12 Huey-Wen Lin , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Tomomi Ishikawa , Jian-Hui Zhang

I consider the effects of including a variety of new LHC data sets into the MMHT approach for PDF determination. I consider the impact of fitting new LHC and Tevatron data, which leads to clear improvements in some PDF uncertainties. There…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 R. S. Thorne , L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin

We present a determination of the parton distributions of the nucleon from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology: NNPDF2.0. Experimental data include deep-inelastic scattering with the combined HERA-I dataset,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Richard D. Ball , Luigi Del Debbio , Stefano Forte , Alberto Guffanti , Jose I. Latorre , Juan Rojo , Maria Ubiali

In this paper, conventional Global QCD analysis is generalized to produce parton distributions optimized for use with event generators at the LHC. This optimization is accomplished by combining the constraints due to existing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Hung-Liang Lai , Joey Huston , Stephen Mrenna , Pavel Nadolsky , Daniel Stump , Wu-Ki Tung , C. -P. Yuan