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We describe the implementation of Quantum Electrodynamic (QED) evolution at Leading Order (LO) along with Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) evolution at Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) in the CTEQ-TEA Global analysis package. The inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Carl Schmidt , Jon Pumplin , Daniel Stump , C. -P. Yuan

We present a set of parton distribution functions (PDFs), based on the NNPDF2.3 set, which includes a photon PDF, and QED contributions to parton evolution. We describe the implementation of the combined QCD+QED evolution in the NNPDF…

We have presented the results of our next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs) [Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 014026, arXiv:1601.00939 [hep-ph]] using all available neutral current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-17 S. Atashbar Tehrani

The prospects for a measurement of nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) at the Large Hadron--Electron Collider are discussed in the light of recent progress made in the front of global analysis of nuclear PDFs.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-12 Hannu Paukkunen

We present the first official release of the nCTEQ nuclear parton distribution functions with errors. The main addition to the previous nCTEQ PDFs is the introduction of PDF uncertainties based on the Hessian method. Another important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-17 A. Kusina , K. Kovarik , T. Jezo , D. B. Clark , C. Keppel , F. Lyonnet , J. G. Morfin , F. I. Olness , J. F. Owens , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

The recent global analyses of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) lend support to the validity of the factorization theorem of QCD in high-energy processes involving bound nucleons. With a special attention on our latest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-22 Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado , Kari J. Eskola

A "meta-analysis" is a method for comparison and combination of nonperturbative parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a nucleon obtained with heterogeneous procedures and assumptions. Each input parton distribution set is converted into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Jun Gao , Pavel Nadolsky

We present recent progress towards a global determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) at approximate N$^3$LO (aN$^3$LO) accuracy within the NNPDF framework. We construct a parametrisation of the $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^4)$ QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-28 Felix Hekhorn , Giacomo Magni

The interest into parton distribution functions (PDFs) and fragmentation functions (FFs) in current high energy physics research is twofold. On the one hand, they are fundamental objects to conduct precision phenomenology studies, e.g. at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Tanishq Sharma

The CTEQ-TEA Collaboration has calculated neutrino-nucleon cross sections, based on CTEQ18 NNLO parton distribution functions.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-23 Daniel R. Stump

We perform a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) using neutral current charged-lepton ($\ell ^\pm$ + nucleus) deeply inelastic scattering (DIS) data and Drell-Yan (DY) cross-section…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-29 Hamzeh Khanpour , S. Atashbar Tehrani

We present a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculation of the quasi parton distribution functions (Quasi-PDFs) in the large momentum effective theory (LaMET). We focus on the flavor non-diagonal quark-quark channel and demonstrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-05 Long-Bin Chen , Wei Wang , Ruilin Zhu

We recall the physical features of the parton distributions in the quantum statistical approach of the nucleon. Some predictions from a next-to-leading order QCD analysis are compared to recent experimental results. We also consider their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-26 Jacques Soffer

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 present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculation of quark quasi parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the large momentum effective theory. The nontrivial factorization at this order is established explicitly and the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Long-Bin Chen , Wei Wang , Ruilin Zhu

A few changes to the routines that calculate CTEQ parton distribution functions allow modern compilers to optimize the evaluations, while having no quantitative effect on the results. Overall computation time is reduced by a factor of 4-5…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Zack Sullivan

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

We summarize recent results on the evolution of unpolarized parton densities and deep-inelastic structure functions in massless perturbative QCD. Due to last year's extension of the integer-moment calculations of the three-loop splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 W. L. van Neerven , A. Vogt

Study of parton distribution function (PDF) is a topic of significant interest in QCD. To overcome the shortcomings of conventional PDFs, several alternative methods have been suggested in recent years. The present work reports the x…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-14 D. K. Choudhury , Pijush Kanti Dhar

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