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We perform the first global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the pion, combining $\pi A$ Drell-Yan data with leading neutron electroproduction from HERA within a Monte Carlo approach based on nested sampling.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-17 P. C. Barry , N. Sato , W. Melnitchouk , Chueng-Ryong Ji

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 calculate the valence parton distribution function~(PDF) of pion, within the theoretical approach based on spectral function representation of valence quarks in the pion. In this approach we assume that the soft partonic structure of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Joseph Maerovitz , Christopher Leon , Misak Sargsian

Within the basis light-front quantization framework, we systematically investigate the unpolarized and longitudinally polarized double parton distributions (DPDs) of quarks inside the proton. We utilize the light-front wave functions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Tian-Cai Peng , Zhi Hu , Sreeraj Nair , Siqi Xu , Xiang Liu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

At the LHC we are colliding protons, but it is not the protons that are doing the interacting. It is their constituents the quarks, antiquarks and gluons-collectively known as partons. We need to know how what fractional momentum of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-24 A M Cooper-Sarkar

Mathematical models based on probability density functions (PDF) have been extensively used in hydrology and subsurface flow problems, to describe the uncertainty in porous media properties (e.g., permeability modelled as random field).…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-01 Matteo Icardi , Marco Dentz

We explore the role of parametrizations for nonperturbative QCD functions in global analyses, with a specific application to extending a phenomenological analysis of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the charged pion realized in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-17 Lucas Kotz , Aurore Courtoy , Pavel Nadolsky , Fredrick Olness , Maximiliano Ponce-Chavez

We survey some of the recent developments in the extraction and application of heavy quark Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs). We also highlight some of the key HERA measurements which have contributed to these advances.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 K. Kovarik , T. Stavreva , A. Kusina , T. Jezo , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

We compute the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the unpolarised muon for the leptons, the photon, the light quarks, and the gluon. We discuss in detail the issues stemming from the necessity of evaluating the strong coupling constant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-14 Stefano Frixione , Giovanni Stagnitto

We perform the first quantum computation of parton distribution function (PDF) with a real quantum device by calculating the PDF of the lightest positronium in the Schwinger model with IBM quantum computers. The calculation uses 10 qubits…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-23 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Yu-Ting Chen , Ghanashyam Meher

We investigate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the pion and the kaon by combining quantum chromodynamics (QCD) evolution with the basis light front quantization. The initial PDFs result from the light front wave functions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-23 Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Shaoyang Jia , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We propose a phenomenological light-front wave function for hadrons with arbitrary twist-dimension (mesons, baryons and multiquark states), which gives the correct scaling behavior of structure functions (parton distributions) and form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Thomas Gutsche , Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Ivan Schmidt , Alfredo Vega

We report a lattice QCD calculation of the parton distribution function (PDF) of a deuteron-like dibaryon system using large-momentum effective theory. The calculation is done on three Wilson Clover ensembles with a fixed lattice spacing…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-05-20 Chen Chen , Liuming Liu , Peng Sun , Yi-Bo Yang , Yiqi Geng , Fei Yao , Jian-Hui Zhang , Kuan Zhang

We study the cross section \sigma and Forward-Backward asymmetry A_{FB} in the process pp \to \gamma^*,Z \to \ell^+\ell^- (with \ell=e,\mu) for determinations of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the proton. We show that, once mapped…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-19 E. Accomando , J. Fiaschi , F. Hautmann , S. Moretti

We revise the relation between Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and matrix elements computable from lattice QCD, focusing on the quasi-Parton Distribution Functions (qPDFs) approach. We exploit the relation between PDFs and qPDFs in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Krzysztof Cichy , Luigi Del Debbio , Tommaso Giani

We use the variational principle of Quantum HadronDynamics, an alternative formulation of Quantum ChromoDynamics, to determine the wavefunction of valence quarks in a baryon at a low value of Q^2. This can be used to predict the structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Krishnaswami , S. G. Rajeev

We systematically explore the parametrization dependence of the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) to better quantify the true uncertainty from global QCD analyses. To achieve this, we employ a novel technique that automates the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-20 Lucas Kotz , Aurore Courtoy , Pavel Nadolsky , Fredrick Olness , Maximiliano Ponce-Chavez

In the present work, it is intended to calculate the unintegrated parton distribution functions (UPDFs) of the $^6{Li}$ nucleus, which depend not only on the longitudinal momentum fraction $x$ (the Bjorken variable) and the factorization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-23 M. Modarres , H. Hadian

We study nuclear effects of charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the framework of a chi^2 analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs). We extract a set of iron PDFs which are used to compute x_Bj-dependent and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu , C. Keppel , J. G. Morfin , F. Olness , J. F. Owens

The correct description of the hadron's structure requires understanding how quarks and gluons form the observable hadrons and how they are distributed within them. Two key nonperturbative quantities encapsulate this information: parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Gustavo B. Bopsin , Bruno El-Bennich , Gastão Krein , Fernando E. Serna , Roberto C. da Silveira