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Quasi parton distribution functions (QPDFs) are defined in terms of QCD fields at spacelike separations evaluated in matrix elements of hadrons moving with velocity $v$. These objects can be studied in lattice QCD. In the limit when $v$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Fatma Aslan , Asli Tandogan , Peter Schweitzer

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

Knowledge of parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large momentum fraction $ x $ is not only important to study the flavor and spin dynamics of quarks in the nucleon, but also to search for signals of new physics at collider experiments.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Muhammad Goharipour , S. Rostami

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

In collider physics, parton distribution functions (PDFs) play a crucial role in computing theoretical cross sections for scattering reactions. This study explores how different experimental data sets influence extracted PDFs in CTEQ-TEA…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Lucas Kotz

We reply to the Comment of Brodsky and Gardner on our paper "New limits on intrinsic charm in the nucleon from global analysis of parton distributions" [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 082002 (2015)]. We address a number of incorrect claims made…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-01 P. Jimenez-Delgado , T. J. Hobbs , J. T. Londergan , W. Melnitchouk

A next-to-leading order analysis of inelastic electroproduction of charm is performed using an interpolating scheme which maps smoothly onto massless QCD evolution at large Q^2 and photon-gluon fusion at small Q^2. In contrast with earlier…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-26 F. M. Steffens , W. Melnitchouk , A. W. Thomas

We extract pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a Monte Carlo global QCD analysis of experimental data together with reduced Ioffe time pseudo-distributions and matrix elements of current-current correlators generated from lattice…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 P. C. Barry , C. Egerer , J. Karpie , W. Melnitchouk , C. Monahan , K. Orginos , Jian-Wei Qiu , D. Richards , N. Sato , R. S. Sufian , S. Zafeiropoulos

We present progress towards a unified framework enabling the simultaneous determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton, deuteron, and nuclei up to lead $(^{208}\rm{Pb})$. Our approach is based on the integration…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-13 Tanjona Rabemananjara

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 valence quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) of all ground state heavy mesons that composed of $b$ or $c$ quarks, are discussed; namely, the pseudoscalar $\eta_c(1S)$, $\eta_b(1S)$ and $B_c$, together with the corresponding vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-01 Qian Wu , Zhu-Fang Cui , Jorge Segovia

I review recent progress in the NNPDF global analyses of parton distributions (PDFs) focusing on developments contributing to its new upcoming release: NNPDF4.0. The NNPDF4.0 determination represents unprecedented progress in three main…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-20 Juan Rojo

We describe the inclusion of the photon as an additional component of the proton's Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) in the MMHT framework. The input for the photon is adopted from the recent LUXqed determination. We describe the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-23 Ricky Nathvani , Lucian Harland-Lang , Robert Thorne , Alan Martin

The large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) framework has been widely used to determine the Bjorken-$x$ dependence of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in lattice-QCD hadron-structure calculations. In this proceeding, I highlighted…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-14 Huey-Wen Lin

In this work, we propose a method to quantify the difference between nuclear parton distribution functions in different nuclei and parton distribution functions in free nucleons using the relative entropy (also known as Kullback-Leibler…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Shu-Man Hu , Ao-Sheng Xiong , Ji Xu , Fu-Sheng Yu , Ji-Xin Yu

We investigate the parton-distribution functions (PDFs) for the positively charged pion and kaon at a low-renormalization scale ~ 1 GeV. To this end, we employ the gauge-invariant effective chiral action from the nonlocal chiral-quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Seung-il Nam

We present the new MSHT20 set of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton, determined from global analyses of the available hard scattering data. The PDFs are made available at NNLO, NLO, and LO, and supersede the MMHT14 sets.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-22 S. Bailey , T. Cridge , L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin , R. S. Thorne

We review the current status of Parton Distribution Function (PDF) determinations for unpolarized and longitudinally polarized protons and for unpolarized nuclei, which are probed by high-energy hadronic scattering in perturbative Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-18 Jacob J. Ethier , Emanuele R. Nocera

We use the hard (Lipatov) pomeron for the low-x gluon distribution and provide a compact formula for the ratio $R^{c} =F_{L}^{c}/F_{2}^{c}$ that is useful to extract the charm structure function from the reduced charm cross-section, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-04 G. R. Boroun , B. Rezaei

We perform the analysis of the existing inclusive deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data within NNLO QCD approximation. The parton distributions functions (PDFs) and the value of strong coupling constant $\alpha_{s}(M_Z)=0.1143\pm0.0013…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Alekhin Sergey