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We have computed the complete next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) contributions to the splitting functions governing the evolution of unpolarized parton densities in perturbative QCD. Our results agree with all partial results available in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Moch , J. A. M. Vermaseren , A. Vogt

Parton distribution functions (pdfs) are an important ingredient for LHC phenomenology. Recent progress in determining pdfs from global analyses is reviewed, and some of the most important outstanding issues are highlighted. Particular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-15 W. James Stirling

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

Focusing on hadron scattering at large partonic momentum fractions $x$, we compare nonperturbative QCD predictions for the asymptotic behavior of DIS structure functions and parton distribution functions (PDFs) to the $x$ and $Q$ dependence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-30 Aurore Courtoy , Pavel M. Nadolsky

We present the first NNPDF full set of Parton Distribution Functions from a comprehensive DIS analysis. This approach, combining a Monte Carlo sampling of the probability measure in the space of PDFs with the use of neural networks as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Maria Ubiali

I present a small selection of the many QCD studies that have been performed at HERA. I concentrate on results that have been made available in the past year. Results are presented on the QCD description of the parton density functions,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Ian C. Brock

We present a new global QCD analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions. In addition to the most commonly analyzed data sets for deep inelastic scattering of charged leptons off nuclei and Drell Yan di-lepton production, we include…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-18 Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann , Pia Zurita

We extract new parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton by global analysis of hard scattering data in the general-mass framework of perturbative quantum chromodynamics. Our analysis includes new theoretical developments together…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Hung-Liang Lai , Marco Guzzi , Joey Huston , Zhao Li , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Jon Pumplin , C. -P. Yuan

We briefly recall the main physical features of the parton distributions in the quantum statistical picture of the nucleon. Some predictions from a next-to-leading order QCD analysis are compared to recent experimental results.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-03 Jacques Soffer

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-27 A. Kusina

The current status of global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions of the nucleon is reviewed. Recent progress made in determining various features of the parton structure of the nucleon, as well as outstanding open questions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Wu-Ki Tung

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 extract pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a Monte Carlo global QCD analysis of experimental data together with reduced Ioffe time pseudo-distributions and matrix elements of current-current correlators generated from lattice…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 P. C. Barry , C. Egerer , J. Karpie , W. Melnitchouk , C. Monahan , K. Orginos , Jian-Wei Qiu , D. Richards , N. Sato , R. S. Sufian , S. Zafeiropoulos

We review the current status of spin-averaged and spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon. After presenting the formalism used to fit PDFs in modern global data analyses, we discuss constraints placed on the PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Jimenez-Delgado , W. Melnitchouk , J. F. Owens

We present LO, NLO and NNLO sets of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton determined from global analyses of the available hard scattering data. These MMHT2014 PDFs supersede the `MSTW2008' parton sets, but are obtained within…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin , P. Motylinski , R. S. Thorne

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 discuss the latest update of the MRST parton distributions in response to the most recent data. We discuss the areas where there are hints of difficulties in the global fit, and compare to some other updated sets of parton distributions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Thorne , A. D. Martin , R. G. Roberts , W. J. Stirling

We provide an assessment of the impact of parton distributions on the determination of LHC processes, and of the accuracy with which parton distributions (PDFs) can be extracted from data, in particular from current and forthcoming HERA…

A selection of the latest and most frequently used PDFs is incorporated in PYTHIA8, including the MC-adapted PDFs from the MSTW and CTEQ collaborations. This thesis examines the differences in PDFs as well as the effect they have on results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-26 Tomas Kasemets

I discuss our current understanding of parton distributions. I begin with the underlying theoretical framework, and the way in which different data sets constrain different partons, highlighting recent developments. The methods of examining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. S. Thorne