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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 discuss the main features of the recent NNPDF2.1 NLO set, a determination of parton distributions from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology including heavy quark mass effects. We present the implications for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-07 Francesco Cerutti

New experiments to measure neutrinos in the far-forward region at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are under design or already in preparation. Two of them, FASER$\nu$ and SND@LHC, are expected to be active during Run 3 and have the potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-04 Weidong Bai , Milind Diwan , Maria Vittoria Garzelli , Yu Seon Jeong , Fnu Karan Kumar , Mary Hall Reno

We formulate a general approach to the inclusion of theoretical uncertainties, specifically those related to the missing higher order uncertainty (MHOU), in the determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs). We demonstrate how,…

We present the new parton distribution functions (PDFs) from the CTEQ-TEA collaboration, obtained using a wide variety of high-precision Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data, in addition to the combined HERA I+II deep-inelastic scattering data…

Transverse and longitudinal electroweak gauge boson parton distribution functions (PDFs) are computed in terms of deep-inelastic scattering structure functions, following the recently developed method to determine the photon PDF. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-18 Bartosz Fornal , Aneesh V. Manohar , Wouter J. Waalewijn

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

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

The Fortran LHAPDF library has been a long-term workhorse in particle physics, providing standardised access to parton density functions for experimental and phenomenological purposes alike, following on from the venerable PDFLIB package.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Andy Buckley , James Ferrando , Stephen Lloyd , Karl Nordstrom , Ben Page , Martin Ruefenacht , Marek Schoenherr , Graeme Watt

We present NNPDF4.0MC, a variant of the NNPDF4.0 set of parton distributions (PDFs) at LO, NLO and NNLO, with and without inclusion of the photon PDF, suitable for use with Monte Carlo (MC) event generators, which require PDFs to satisfy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-29 Juan Cruz-Martinez , Stefano Forte , Niccolo Laurenti , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara , Juan Rojo

We include uncertainties due to missing higher order corrections to QCD computations (MHOU) used in the determination of parton distributions (PDFs) in the recent NNPDF4.0 set of PDFs. We use our previously published methodology, based on…

We critically examine uncertainties in parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large x arising from nuclear effects in deuterium F2 structure function data. Within a global PDF analysis, we assess the impact on the PDFs from uncertainties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk , J. F. Owens , M. E. Christy , C. E. Keppel , L. Zhu , J. G. Morfin

We present the software framework underlying the NNPDF4.0 global determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs). The code is released under an open source licence and is accompanied by extensive documentation and examples. The code…

This report summarizes the latest developments in the CTEQ-TEA global analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the nucleon. The focus is on recent NNLO fits to high-precision LHC data at 8 and 13 TeV, including Drell-Yan, jet,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-26 A. Ablat , A. Courtoy , S. Dulat , M. Guzzi , T. J. Hobbs , T. -J. Hou , J. Huston , K. Mohan , H. -W. Lin , P. Nadolsky , I. Sitiwaldi , K. Xie , M. Yan , C. -P. Yuan

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

A selection of the latest and most frequently used parton distribution functions (PDFs) is incorporated in Pythia8, including the Monte Carlo-adapted PDFs from the MSTW and CTEQ collaborations. This article examines the differences in PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 Tomas Kasemets , Torbjörn Sjöstrand

We determine the pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) from its light-front wave functions, obtained using the holographic Schr\"odinger equation of light-front chiral QCD combined with the 't Hooft equation in (1+1)-dimensional QCD at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Jiangshan Lan , Satvir Kaur , Chandan Mondal

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) describe universal properties of bound states and allow us to calculate scattering amplitudes in processes with large momentum transfer. Calculating PDFs involves the evaluation of matrix elements with a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-02-10 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , C. -J. David Lin , Manuel Schneider

Charged lepton pairs are produced copiously in high-energy hadron collisions via electroweak gauge boson exchange, and are one of the most precisely measured final states in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 S. Amoroso , J. Fiaschi , F. Giuli , A. Glazov , F. Hautmann , O. Zenaiev

A new and simple statistical approach is performed to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon in terms of light-front kinematic variables. Analytic expressions of x-dependent PDFs are obtained in the whole x…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-07 Lijing Shao , Yunhua Zhang , Bo-Qiang Ma