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Global perturbative QCD analyses, based on large data sets from e-p and hadron collider experiments, provide tight constraints on the parton distribution function (PDF) in the proton. The extension of these analyses to nuclear parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-07 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , José Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achim Wiedemann

We calculate the electron structure functions, aka parton distribution functions (PDFs), to NNLO in QED. The calculation is based on the definition of the PDFs in terms of operator matrix elements in soft collinear effective theory (SCET)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Maximilian Stahlhofen

In the last decade, and even more so in the last few years, our knowledge of the internal structure of the proton has become more accurate and precise thanks to the large amount of data available and developments in theory and methodology.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-09 Thomas Cridge , Juan Cruz Martinez , Joey Huston

We present an indirect determination of the top-quark pole mass $m_t$ within a global analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs), based on the public NNPDF framework. We consider a wide range of measurements, including both single-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Richard D. Ball , Jaco ter Hoeve , Roy Stegeman

We report the parton distribution functions (PDFs) determined from the NNLO QCD analysis of the world inclusive DIS data with account of the precise NNLO QCD corrections to the evolution equations kernel. The value of strong coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Alekhin

We present an improved leading-order global DGLAP analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), supplementing the traditionally used data from deep inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering and Drell-Yan dilepton production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 K. J. Eskola , H. Paukkunen , C. A. Salgado

We review the current status of the global DGLAP analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions, nPDFs, focusing on the recent EPS09 analysis, whose output, EPS09NLO, is the best-constrained NLO nPDF set on the market. Collinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 K. J. Eskola , H. Paukkunen , C. A. Salgado

Accurate Standard Model predictions of proton-proton collisions are essential for interpreting the current and forthcoming experimental measurements from high-energy colliders. The quest for physics beyond the Standard Model is in fact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-09 Giacomo Magni

We extract the ratio of the down (d) and up (u) parton distribution functions (PDF's) from the ratio of NMC deuteron and proton structure function F_2(d)/F_2(p), using corrections for nuclear binding effects in the deuteron, which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 U. K. Yang , A. Bodek

We present a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculation of the quasi parton distribution functions (Quasi-PDFs) in the large momentum effective theory (LaMET). We focus on the flavor non-diagonal quark-quark channel and demonstrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-05 Long-Bin Chen , Wei Wang , Ruilin Zhu

The photon parton distribution function (PDF) of the proton is crucial for precise comparisons of LHC cross sections with theoretical predictions. However, it was previously affected by very large uncertainties of around ${\cal O}(100\%)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-26 Aneesh Manohar , Paolo Nason , Gavin Salam , Giulia Zanderighi

To overcome the complexity of generalized two hard scale ($k_t$,$\mu$) evolution equation, well known as the $Ciafaloni$, $Catani$, $Fiorani$ and $Marchsini$ ($CCFM$) evolution equations, and calculate the unintegrated parton distribution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-01-13 H Hosseinkhani , M Modarres

In this work, we present a new global QCD analyses, referred to as PKHFF.23, for charged pion, kaon, and unidentified light hadrons. We utilize a Neural Network to fit the high-energy lepton-lepton and lepton-hadron scattering data,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-09 Maryam Soleymaninia , Hadi Hashamipour , Hamzeh Khanpour , Samira Shoeib , Alireza Mohamaditabar

We study the systematic inclusion of QED corrections in the evolution of parton distributions. O(alpha) corrections modify the evolution equation for parton distributions. They introduce additional parton distributions, like the photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Markus Roth , Stefan Weinzierl

In this article, using Laplace transformation , an analytical solution is obtained for the DGLAP evolution equation at the next-to-leading order of perturbative QCD. The technique is also employed to extract, in the Laplace $s$-space, an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-31 Javad Sheibani , Abolfazl Mirjalili , S. Atashbar Tehrani

Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) play a central role in describing experimental data at colliders and provide insight into the structure of nucleons. As the LHC enters an era of high-precision measurements, a robust PDF determination…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Amedeo Chiefa , Luigi Del Debbio , Richard Kenway

We discuss the determination of the parton substructure of hadrons by casting it as a peculiar form of pattern recognition problem in which the pattern is a probability distribution, and we present the way this problem has been tackled and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-31 Stefano Forte , Stefano Carrazza

We summarize recent progress toward the next generation of CTEQ-TEA parton distribution functions, CT25, based on a global NNLO analysis that incorporates a significant sample of newly included LHC data. We present a baseline fit within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 A. Ablat , A. Courtoy , S. Dulat , Y. Fu , M. Guzzi , T. J. Hobbs , J. Huston , K. Mohan , P. Nadolsky , M. Ponce-Chavez , D. Stump , K. Xie , C. -P. Yuan

We extract the ratio of the down (d) and up (u) parton distribution functions (PDF's) from the ratio of deuteron and proton structure function F_2(d)/F_2(p) measured by NMC. We use corrections for nuclear binding effects in the deuteron,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 U. K. Yang , A. Bodek

A brief overview of the global DGLAP analyses of the nuclear parton distribution functions is given. Although all the current global nPDF sets describe $R_{F_2}^A(x,Q^2)$ well in the large-$x$ region where the data exist, variations between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 V. J. Kolhinen