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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

Twist-3 collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) are matrix elements of quark-gluon-quark or three-gluons light-cone operators. They depend on three momentum fraction variables, which are restricted to a hexagon region, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-10 Simone Rodini , Lorenzo Rossi , Alexey Vladimirov

In global PDF analyses, parton distribution functions (PDFs) are parametrised at a fixed input scale $Q_0$ and evolved to higher scales using the DGLAP equations. Since QCD evolution is fully determined within perturbation theory, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Ivan A. Godino , Eva D. Z. Groenendijk , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara

In this proceeding we present the impact of the EW corrections on $t \bar t$ distributions focusing on the effect of the photon PDF. We use the {\sc NNPDF2.3QED} and {\sc CT14QED} PDF sets, which include the photon PDF. We discuss a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-23 Ioannis Tsinikos

Study of parton distribution functions (PDFs) has led to a finer cognisance of the structure of partons in hadrons and the proton structure functions in deep inelastic scattering (DIS). PDFs are instrumental in predicting results for most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-02 Akbari Jahan , Diptimonta Neog

The next-to-leading order (NLO) evolution of the parton distribution functions (PDF's) in QCD is the "industry standard" in the lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collider data analysis. The standard NLO DGLAP evolution is formulated for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-02 S. Jadach , M. Skrzypek

In this work, we present an analytical solution for QCD$\otimes$QED coupled Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (DGLAP) evolution equations at the leading order (LO) accuracy in QED and next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 S. Zarrin , G. R. Boroun

Precision phenomenology at the LHC requires accounting for both higher-order QCD and electroweak corrections as well as for photon-initiated subprocesses. Building upon the recent NNPDF3.1 fit, in this work the photon content of the proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-25 Valerio Bertone , Stefano Carrazza , Nathan P. Hartland , Juan Rojo

This contribution describes the HOPPET Fortran~95 package for carrying out DGLAP evolution and other common manipulations of PDFs. The PDFs are represented on a grid in $x$-space so as to avoid limitations on the functional form of input…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-07-02 Gavin Salam , Juan Rojo

We present an analytical method to solve the leading order (LO) Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (DGLAP) evolution equations, which describe how parton distribution functions (PDFs) vary through different energy scales. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-21 Matthew Markovych , Asli Tandogan

We numerically study for the first time the nonlinear GLR-MQ evolution equations for nuclear parton distribution function (nPDFs) to next-to-leading order accuracy and quantify the impact of gluon recombination at small $x$. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-15 J. Rausch , V. Guzey , M. Klasen

Electroweak corrections to hadron collider processes become relevant at the level of precision reached by present-day LHC experiments. We provide a preliminary discussion of the impact of electroweak corrections to parton distributions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-12 Stefano Carrazza

We present an efficient numerical solution of the DGLAP equations for single and double parton distribution functions (PDFs and DPDs), based on the Chebyshev interpolation of these functions. For PDF evolution, our method allows for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-25 Riccardo Nagar

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

The next-to-leading order (NLO) evolution of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) in QCD is a common tool in the lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collider data analysis. The standard NLO DGLAP evolution is formulated for inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-02 S. Jadach , M. Skrzypek , A. Kusina , M. Slawinska

We describe the implementation of Quantum Electrodynamic (QED) evolution at Leading Order (LO) along with Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) evolution at Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) in the CTEQ-TEA Global analysis package. The inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Carl Schmidt , Jon Pumplin , Daniel Stump , C. -P. Yuan

We discuss the effect of QED corrections in the evolution of polarized parton distributions. We solve the corresponding evolution equations exactly to ${\cal O}(\alpha )$ and ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^2)$ in Mellin $N$-space, extending the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-30 Daniel de Florian , Lucas Palma Conte

We present a new public code, FPPDF, to perform global fits of parton distribution functions (PDFs). The fitting methodology follows that implemented by the MSHT collaboration, namely applying a fixed polynomial parameterisation of the PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-10 J. M. Cruz-Martinez , T. Giani , L. A. Harland-Lang

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 a determination of the strong coupling $\alpha_s(m_Z)$ from a global dataset including both fixed-target and collider data from deep-inelastic scattering and a variety of hadronic processes, with a simultaneous determination of…