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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 2011-07-29 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , Jose Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achim Wiedemann

We present an updated determination of nuclear parton distributions (nPDFs) from a global NLO QCD analysis of hard processes in fixed-target lepton-nucleus and proton-nucleus together with collider proton-nucleus experiments. In addition to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-27 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Rhorry Gauld , Tommaso Giani , Emanuele R. Nocera , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara , Juan Rojo

We report current status of global analyses on nuclear parton distribution functions (NPDFs). The optimum NPDFs are determined by analyzing high-energy nuclear reaction data. Due to limited experimental measurements, antiquark modifications…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , K. Saito

The quantum statistical parton distributions approach proposed more than one decade ago is revisited by considering a larger set of recent and accurate Deep Inelastic Scattering experimental results. It enables us to improve the description…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 Claude Bourrely , Jacques Soffer

We present a model-independent determination of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) using machine learning methods and Monte Carlo techniques based on the NNPDF framework. The neutral-current deep-inelastic nuclear structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Jacob J. Ethier , Juan Rojo , Gijs van Weelden

The neutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data is very interesting for global analyses of proton and nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) since they provide crucial information on the strange quark distribution in the proton and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-07 K. Kovarik , I. Schienbein , F. I. Olness , J. Y. Yu , C. Keppel , J. G. Morfin , J. F. Owens , T. Stavreva

We discuss the two most recent global analyses of nuclear parton distribution functions within the nCTEQ approach. LHC data on $W/Z$-boson, single-inclusive hadron and heavy quark/quarkonium production are shown to not only significantly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-20 M. Klasen , P. Duwentäster , T. Jezo , K. Kovarik , A. Kusina , J. G. Morfin , K. F. Muzakka , F. I. Olness , R. Ruiz , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

We evaluate the uncertainties due to nuclear effects in global fits of proton parton distribution functions (PDFs) that utilise deep-inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan data on deuterium targets. To do this we use an iterative procedure to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Richard D. Ball , Emanuele R. Nocera , Rosalyn L. Pearson

We compare the nuclear corrections factors from neutrino deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) with the ones coming from a standard analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDF). We focus on a discrepancy between the most precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-12 K. Kovarik

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

In collider physics, parton distribution functions (PDFs) play a crucial role in computing theoretical cross sections for scattering reactions. This study explores how different experimental data sets influence extracted PDFs in CTEQ-TEA…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Lucas Kotz

A mini-review on the status of global analyses of nuclear parton distribution functions is given, focusing on the most relevant constraints for the hard-probes phenomenology in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-01 Petja Paakkinen

The quantum statistical parton distributions approach proposed more than one decade ago is revisited by considering a larger set of recent and accurate Deep Inelastic Scattering experimental results. It enables us to improve the description…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-22 Jacques Soffer , Claude Bourrely

A study is presented of the impact of simulated inclusive Electron Ion Collider Deep Inelastic Scattering data on the determination of the proton and nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) at next-to-next-to-leading and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-18 Néstor Armesto , Thomas Cridge , Francesco Giuli , Lucian Harland-Lang , Paul Newman , Barak Schmookler , Robert Thorne , Katarzyna Wichmann

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

Proton-proton collisions at the LHC generate high-intensity collimated beams of forward neutrinos up to TeV energies. Their recent observations and the initiation of a novel LHC neutrino program motivate investigations of this previously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-04 Toni Mäkelä

New data sets have recently become available for neutrino and antineutrino deep inelastic scattering on nuclear targets and for inclusive dimuon production in pp pd interactions. These data sets are sensitive to different combinations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. F. Owens , J. Huston , C. E. Keppel , S. Kuhlmann , J. G. Morfin , F. Olness , J. Pumplin , D. Stump

Since its start of data taking, the LHC has provided an impressive wealth of information on the quark and gluon structure of the proton. Indeed, modern global analyses of parton distribution functions (PDFs) include a wide range of LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Shaun Bailey , Jun Gao , Lucian Harland-Lang , Juan Rojo

The determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) is crucial for a complete understanding of the protons and neutrons that make most of the visible matter in the universe. Years of dedicated studies have yielded a quite precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-02 Pia Zurita

The LHC is foreseen to finally bring also the nuclear collisions to the TeV scale thereby providing new possibilities for physics studies, in particular related to the electro-weak sector of the Standard Model. We study here the Z and W…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado