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A new and simple statistical approach is performed to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon in terms of light-front kinematic variables. We do not put in any extra arbitrary parameter or corrected term by hand,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-12 Yunhua Zhang , Lijing Shao , Bo-Qiang Ma

I consider variations in the definitions, at next-to-leading order (NLO) and at next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO), of a General-Mass Variable Flavour Number Scheme (GM-VFNS) for heavy flavour structure functions. I also define a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-12 R. S. Thorne

We present the first global analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) at approximate N$^{3}$LO in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_{s}$, extending beyond the current highest NNLO achieved in PDF fits. To achieve this, we present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-14 J. McGowan , T. Cridge , L. A. Harland-Lang , R. S. Thorne

A recent study by Wang {\it et al.}(arXiv:2309.01417) proposed a novel connection between the nature of the parton distribution function (PDF) and the characteristics of its moments. In this study, we apply these findings to analyze the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Xiaobin Wang , Zexin Wu , Minghui Ding , Lei Chang

We examine the dependence of parton distribution functions (PDFs) on the value of the QCD coupling strength $\alpha_{s}(M_{Z})$. We explain a simple method that is rigorously valid in the quadratic approximation normally applied in PDF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Hung-Liang Lai , Joey Huston , Zhao Li , Pavel Nadolsky , Jon Pumplin , Daniel Stump , C. -P. Yuan

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) play a central role in calculations for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). To gain a deeper understanding of the emergence and interplay of constraints on the PDFs in the global QCD analyses, it is…

We present the MSHT20qed_an3lo parton distribution functions (PDFs). These result from the first global PDF analysis to combine QED and approximate N${}^3$LO (aN${}^3$LO) QCD corrections in the theoretical calculation of the PDF evolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-31 T. Cridge , L. A. Harland-Lang , R. S. Thorne

We present a first QCD analysis of next-to-next-leading-order (NNLO) contributions of the spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PPDFs) in the nucleon and their uncertainties using the Jacobi polynomial approach. Having the NNLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-24 F. Taghavi Shahri , Hamzeh Khanpour , S. Atashbar Tehrani , Z. Alizadeh Yazdi

We propose a modified definition for a quasi-parton distribution function (QPDF) with an equal-time correlator in the large momentum limit, whose two pieces of space-like Wilson links are oriented in orthogonal directions. It is explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-02 Hsiang-nan Li

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 a detailed benchmarking of different treatments of the QCD evolution of unpolarized PDFs at approximate $N^3LO$ ($aN^3LO$) order in the QCD coupling. Namely, the implementations in the public $aN^3LO$ releases of the MSHT and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-25 A. Cooper-Sarkar , T. Cridge , F. Giuli , L. A. Harland-Lang , F. Hekhorn , J. Huston , G. Magni , S. Moch , R. S. Thorne

We present the main results of our recent papers, where we derived an analytical solution of the QCD evolution equations for parton distribution functions. The valence and non-singlet quark components satisfy the Gross-Llewellyn-Smith and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-24 A. V. Kotikov , A. V. Lipatov

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 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

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

Many present lattice QCD approaches to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) rely on a factorization formula or effective theory expansion of certain Euclidean matrix elements in boosted hadron states. In the quasi- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-28 Xiang Gao , Kyle Lee , Swagato Mukherjee , Charles Shugert , Yong Zhao

In high-energy particle physics, extracting parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculations remains a significant challenge, particularly due to the divergent nature of perturbative expansions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-26 Jia-Lu Zhang

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 detailed Lattice QCD study of the unpolarized isovector quark Parton Distribution Function (PDF) using large-momentum effective theory framework. We choose a quasi-PDF defined by a spatial correlator which is free from mixing…

We present a comprehensive new global QCD analysis of polarized inclusive deep-inelastic scattering, including the latest high-precision data on longitudinal and transverse polarization asymmetries from Jefferson Lab and elsewhere. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-13 Nobuo Sato , W. Melnitchouk , S. E. Kuhn , J. J. Ethier , A. Accardi
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