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We perform the analysis of existing light-targets deep-inelastic-scattering (DIS) data in the leading-order (LO), next-to-leading-order (NLO), and next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) QCD approximations and extract PDFs simultaneously with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergey Alekhin

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) often include datasets corresponding to processes whereby the theoretical predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in peturbative QCD have to be approximated, and this approximation may be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-21 Tanishq Sharma

A determination of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) from a global fit to a dataset including measurements from the LHC has been performed. The determinations have been carried out according to the NNPDF methodology, leading to a fit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-04 Nathan Hartland

We present a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) global QCD analysis of the proton's helicity parton distribution functions (PDFs), the first of its kind. To obtain the distributions, we use data for longitudinal spin asymmetries in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Ignacio Borsa , Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann , Werner Vogelsang

We present for first time the computation at large $q_T$ (or small $b_T$) matching coefficients of Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Distribution Function (TMDPDF) for linearly polarised to the integrated gluon distribution at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-19 Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes , Sergio Leal Gómez , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

New experiments to measure neutrinos in the far-forward region at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are under design or already in preparation. Two of them, FASER$\nu$ and SND@LHC, are expected to be active during Run 3 and have the potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-04 Weidong Bai , Milind Diwan , Maria Vittoria Garzelli , Yu Seon Jeong , Fnu Karan Kumar , Mary Hall Reno

We critically examine uncertainties in parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large x arising from nuclear effects in deuterium F2 structure function data. Within a global PDF analysis, we assess the impact on the PDFs from uncertainties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk , J. F. Owens , M. E. Christy , C. E. Keppel , L. Zhu , J. G. Morfin

We consider the inclusive production of a Higgs boson in gluon-fusion and we study the impact of threshold resummation at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy (N$^3$LL) on the recently computed fixed-order prediction at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-19 Marco Bonvini , Simone Marzani , Claudio Muselli , Luca Rottoli

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

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) are a non-negotiable input to almost all theory predictions at hadron colliders. In this talk, I introduce PDF determination by global analysis and discuss selected topics concerning recent relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-25 Graeme Watt

The accurate determination of the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the proton is an essential ingredient of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) program. PDF uncertainties impact a wide range of processes, from Higgs boson…

We study uncertainties of the predicted inclusive Higgs production cross section due to the uncertainties of parton distribution functions (PDF). Particular attention is given to bbH Yukawa coupling enhanced production mechanisms in beyond…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Belyaev , Jon Pumplin , Wu-Ki Tung , C. --P. Yuan

We present a study of the results obtained combining LO partonic matrix elements with either LO or NLO partons distributions. These are compared to the best prediction using NLO for both matrix elements and parton distributions. The aim is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Sherstnev , R. S. Thorne

We present preliminary results on the determination of spin-dependent, or polarised, Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) from all relevant inclusive polarised DIS data. The analysis is performed within the NNPDF approach, which provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-26 Emanuele R. Nocera , Stefano Forte , Giovanni Ridolfi , Juan Rojo

We present a determination of a set of polarized parton distributions (PDFs) of the nucleon, at next-to-leading order, from a global set of longitudinally polarized deep-inelastic scattering data: NNPDFpol1.0. The determination is based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-01 The NNPDF Collaboration , Richard D. Ball , Stefano Forte , Alberto Guffanti , Emanuele R. Nocera , Giovanni Ridolfi , Juan Rojo

Parton Density Functions (PDFs) and their uncertainties are extremely important topics for both the Tevatron and the LHC. Experiments at the Tevatron can enhance this knowledge not only by constraining the PDF fits, but also by developing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D Bourilkov , R C Group , M R Whalley

We present the first determination of parton distributions of the nucleon at NLO and NNLO based on a global data set which includes LHC data: NNPDF2.3. Our data set includes, besides the deep inelastic, Drell-Yan, gauge boson production and…

We calculate the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading-order (N$^3$LO) QCD corrections to inclusive vector-boson fusion (VBF) Higgs production at proton colliders, in the limit in which there is no colour exchange between the hadronic systems…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-17 Frédéric A. Dreyer , Alexander Karlberg

We review the current status of Parton Distribution Function (PDF) determinations for unpolarized and longitudinally polarized protons and for unpolarized nuclei, which are probed by high-energy hadronic scattering in perturbative Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-18 Jacob J. Ethier , Emanuele R. Nocera

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