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We present a determination of the parton distributions of the nucleon from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology at LO and NNLO in perturbative QCD, thereby generalizing to these orders the NNPDF2.1 NLO parton…

Heavy quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) play an important role in several Standard Model and New Physics processes. Most analyses rely on the assumption that the charm and bottom PDFs are generated perturbatively by gluon splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-08 Florian Lyonnet , Aleksander Kusina , Tomáš Ježo , Karol Kovařík , Fred Olness , Ingo Schienbein , Ji-Young Yu

We discuss techniques and results for the extraction of the nucleon's spin-dependent parton distributions and their uncertainties from data for polarized deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon and proton-proton scattering by means of a global QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-01 Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann , Werner Vogelsang

We study the potential impact of inclusive deep-inelastic scattering data from a future electron-ion collider (EIC) on longitudinally polarized parton distribution (PDFs). We perform a PDF determination using the NNPDF methodology, based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-10 The NNPDF Collaboration , Richard D. Ball , Stefano Forte , Alberto Guffanti , Emanuele R. Nocera , Giovanni Ridolfi , Juan Rojo

We consider the impact that can be made on our understanding of parton distributions (PDFs) and QCD from early measurements at the LHCb experiment. The high rapidity values make the experiment uniquely suited to a detailed study of small-x…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-08-14 R. S. Thorne , A. D. Martin , W. J. Stirling , G. Watt

The choice of data that enters a global QCD analysis can have a substantial impact on the resulting parton distributions and their predictions for collider observables. One of the main reasons for this has to do with the possible presence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-11 Juan Rojo

We review recent progress in the determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton, with emphasis on the applications for precision phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). First of all, we introduce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-23 Jun Gao , Lucian Harland-Lang , Juan Rojo

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 2017-04-05 Jacques Soffer , Claude Bourrely

We present new sets of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). Our analyses are based on deeply inelastic scattering data with charged-lepton and neutrino beams…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-17 Marina Walt , Ilkka Helenius , Werner Vogelsang

We study the gluon parton densities [parton distribution functions (PDFs), transverse momentum distributions (TMDs), generalized parton distributions (GPDs)] and form factors in soft-wall AdS/QCD. We show that the power behavior of gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-18 Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Ivan Schmidt

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) provide process-independent information about the quarks and gluons inside hadrons. Although the gluon PDF can be obtained from a global fit to experimental data, it is not constrained well in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-09 Zhouyou Fan , Rui Zhang , Huey-Wen Lin

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

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

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 present the first attempt to access the $x$-dependence of the gluon unpolarized parton distribution function (PDF), based on lattice simulations using the large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) approach. The lattice calculation is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-12-19 Zhou-You Fan , Yi-Bo Yang , Adam Anthony , Huey-Wen Lin , Keh-Fei Liu

We discuss the statistical properties of parton distributions within the framework of the NNPDF methodology. We present various tests of statistical consistency, in particular that the distribution of results does not depend on the…

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

The strong force which binds hadrons is described by the theory of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Determining the character and manifestations of QCD is one of the most important and challenging outstanding issues necessary for a…

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

We present {\tt SKMHS22}, a new set of diffractive parton distribution functions (PDFs) and their uncertainties at next-to-leading-order accuracy in perturbative QCD within the {\tt xFitter} framework. We describe all available diffractive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-05 Maral Salajegheh , Hamzeh Khanpour , Ulf-G Meißner , Hadi Hashamipour , Maryam Soleymaninia