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The current analysis aims to present the results of a QCD analysis of diffractive parton distribution functions (diffractive PDFs) at next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy in perturbative QCD. In this new determination of diffractive PDFs,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-20 Atefeh Maktoubian , Hossein Mehraban , Hamzeh Khanpour , Muhammad Goharipour

We briefly summarise the "MSTW 2008" determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs), and subsequent follow-up studies, before reviewing some topical issues concerning the PDF dependence of cross sections at the Tevatron and LHC. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Graeme Watt

We review the recent efforts in the NNPDF Collaboration towards a new global extraction of polarized parton distributions functions (pPDF). Polarized PDFs are highly relevant for the interpretation of current and future polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-11 Felix Hekhorn

We investigate the uncertainty in the value of the strong coupling $\alpha_S(M_Z^2)$ when allowing it to be a free parameter in the recent MMHT global analyses of deep-inelastic and related hard scattering data that was undertaken to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin , P. Motylinski , R. S. Thorne

We present a new prescription to account for heavy quark mass effects in the determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) based on the FONLL scheme. Our prescription makes explicit use of the freedom to choose the number of active…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Andrea Barontini , Alessandro Candido , Felix Hekhorn , Giacomo Magni , Roy Stegeman

In this article we obtain a new set of nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs) at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order accuracy in perturbative QCD. The common nuclear deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-17 Hamzeh Khanpour , Maryam Soleymaninia , S. Atashbar Tehrani , Hubert Spiesberger , Vadim Guzey

We present a new set of parton distributions, NNPDF3.1, which updates NNPDF3.0, the first global set of PDFs determined using a methodology validated by a closure test. The update is motivated by recent progress in methodology and available…

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 perform the next-to-next-leading-order (NNLO) QCD global fit of PDFs using inclusive charged-lepton and neutrino DIS data down to Q = 1 GeV. We also consider the data on neutrino-nucleon dimuon production, that allows us to disentangle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-28 S. Alekhin , S. Kulagin , R. Petti

We perform a global fit of parton distribution functions (PDFs) together with the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$ and the quark masses $m_c$, $m_b$ and $m_t$ at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD. The analysis applies the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-10 S. Alekhin , J. Blümlein , S. Moch

We present the new MSHT20 set of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton, determined from global analyses of the available hard scattering data. The PDFs are made available at NNLO, NLO, and LO, and supersede the MMHT14 sets.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-22 S. Bailey , T. Cridge , L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin , R. S. Thorne

We present a new QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) at the next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). In the present paper, the role of special types of experimental measurements for extracting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-20 Majid Azizi , Ali Khorramian , Saeid Paktinat Mehdiabadi

We present a global determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) that accounts for higher twist corrections in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) and linear power corrections for single inclusive jet and dijet production data from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-26 Richard D. Ball , Amedeo Chiefa , Roy Stegeman

We include uncertainties due to missing higher order corrections to QCD computations (MHOU) used in the determination of parton distributions (PDFs) in the recent NNPDF4.0 set of PDFs. We use our previously published methodology, based on…

We present {\tt GKG18-DPDFs}, a next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD analysis of diffractive parton distribution functions (diffractive PDFs) and their uncertainties. This is the first global set of diffractive PDFs determined within the {\tt…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-24 Muhammad Goharipour , Hamzeh Khanpour , Vadim Guzey

We describe the impact on PDF extractions of the 'Physical Scheme', a heavy-quark mass scheme that accounts for the effects of intrinsic heavy-quarks and provides a way to smoothly transition over the heavy-quark thresholds. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Valerio Bertone , Chris A. Flett , Alan D. Martin , Misha G. Ryskin

Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) are a key ingredient in theoretical predictions for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) observables and play a central role in the extraction of precision Standard Model (SM) and Beyond the SM (BSM) parameters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-02 Richard D. Ball , Tommaso Giani , Felix Hekhorn , Jaco ter Hoeve , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara , Juan Rojo , Roy Stegeman , Maria Ubiali

A new ''$\mathtt{SK24}$'' non-singlet QCD analysis of the structure functions at the NNLO approximation is performed, utilizing the global fit of the data from various charged lepton scattering experiments. We extract the valence parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Javad Shahrzad , Ali Khorramian

In order to successfully describe DIS data, one must take heavy quark mass effects into account. This is often achieved using so called variable flavour number schemes, in which a parton distribution for the heavy quark species is defined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 C. D. White

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