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We present the new CTEQ-TEA global analysis of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In this analysis, parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon are determined within the Hessian method at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in…

The progress in constraining proton and nuclear parton distribution functions is briefly summarised. Some persistent uncertainties are pointed out and recent experimental advancements highlighted.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-17 Petja Paakkinen

We investigate the polarized parton distribution functions (PDFs) and their uncertainties by using the world data on the spin asymmetry A_1. The uncertainties of the polarized PDFs are estimated by the Hessian method. The up and down…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , N. Saito

Using the new schemes provided by the CTEQ and MRST collaborations and by Alekhin, we analyse the uncertainties due to the parton distribution functions (PDFs) on the next-to-leading-order cross sections of the four main production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Abdelhak Djouadi , Samir Ferrag

In global analyses of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), neutrino deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) data have been argued to exhibit tensions with the data from charged-lepton DIS. Using the nCTEQ framework, we investigate these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-19 K. F. Muzakka , P. Duwentäster , T. J. Hobbs , T. Ježo , M. Klasen , K. Kovařík , A. Kusina , J. G. Morfín , F. I. Olness , R. Ruiz , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

We evaluate the uncertainties due to nuclear effects in global fits of proton parton distribution functions (PDFs) that utilise deep-inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan data on deuterium targets. To do this we use an iterative procedure to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Richard D. Ball , Emanuele R. Nocera , Rosalyn L. Pearson

We review basic ideas and recent developments on the determination of the parton substructure of the nucleon, in view of applications to precision hadron collider physics. We review the way information on parton distributions (PDFs) is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Stefano Forte

Nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs) are non-perturbative objects that encode the partonic behaviour of bound nucleons. To avoid potential higher-twist contributions, the data probing the high-$x$ end of nuclear PDFs are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Hannu Paukkunen , Pia Zurita

We present a new set of parton distribution functions (PDFs) based on a fully global dataset and machine learning techniques: NNPDF4.0. We expand the NNPDF3.1 determination with 44 new datasets, mostly from the LHC. We derive a novel…

We show how to account for correlations between theoretical uncertainties incorporated in parton distribution function (PDF) fits, and the theoretical uncertainties in the predictions made using these PDFs. We demonstrate by explicit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Richard D. Ball , Rosalyn L. Pearson

Recently a new set of Parton Distribution Functions (NNPDF1.2) has been produced and released by the NNPDF Collaboration. The inclusion of dimuon data in the analysis allows a determination of the strange content of the proton with faithful…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-28 Alberto Guffanti , Juan Rojo , Maria Ubiali

We present three new sets of next-to-leading order parton distribution functions (PDFs) determined by global fits to a wide variety of data for hard scattering processes. The analysis includes target mass and higher twist corrections needed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-15 J. F. Owens , A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk

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 status of the global fits of nuclear parton distributions (nPDFs) is reviewed. In addition to comparing the contemporary analyses of nPDFs, difficulties and controversies posed by the neutrino-nucleus deeply inelastic scattering data is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Hannu Paukkunen

Vector boson production and neutrino deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) data are crucial for constraining the strange quark parton distribution function (PDF) and more generally for flavor decomposition in PDF extractions. We extend the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-21 K. F. Muzakka , P. Duwentäster , T. J. Hobbs , T. Ježo , M. Klasen , K. Kovařík , A. Kusina , J. G. Morfín , F. I. Olness , R. Ruiz , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

We review progress in the global QCD analysis by the CTEQ-TEA group since the publication of CT18 parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton. Specifically, we discuss comparisons of CT18 NNLO predictions with the LHC 13 TeV…

This work studies collinearly factorizable nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at next-to-leading order in the light of hadron-nucleus collision data which have not been included in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-18 Petja Paakkinen

We review various methods used to estimate uncertainties in quantum correlation functions, such as parton distribution functions (PDFs). Using a toy model of a PDF, we compare the uncertainty estimates yielded by the traditional Hessian and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 N. T. Hunt-Smith , A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato , A. W. Thomas , M. J. White

We present results of our recent EPPS16 global analysis of NLO nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). For the first time, dijet and heavy gauge boson production data from LHC proton-lead collisions have been included in a global…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-17 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

The NNPDF collaboration has recently presented NNPDF3.1, a new determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton including a number of new data, some of which are particularly sensitive to the gluon PDF at large x. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-25 Emanuele R. Nocera , Maria Ubiali