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We formulate a collinear partonic shower algorithm that achieves next-to-single-logarithmic (NSL, $\alpha_s^n L^{n-1}$) accuracy for collinear-sensitive non-singlet fragmentation observables. This entails the development of an algorithm for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-16 Melissa van Beekveld , Mrinal Dasgupta , Basem Kamal El-Menoufi , Jack Helliwell , Pier Francesco Monni , Gavin P. Salam

Parton distribution functions are determined by the comparison of finite-order calculations with data. We briefly discuss the interplay of higher order corrections and PDF determinations, and the use of soft-gluon resummation in global…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 George Sterman , Werner Vogelsang

Parton showers are crucial components of high-energy physics calculations. Improving their modelling of QCD is an active research area since shower approximations are stumbling blocks for precision event generators. Naively, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-13 Leif Gellersen , Stefan Prestel , Michael Spannowsky

Presented here is a technique of propagating uncertainties through the parton shower by means of an alternate event weight. This technique provides a mechanism to systematically quantify the effect of variations of certain components of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip Stephens , Andre van Hameren

Beyond leading-order, perturbative QCD requires a choice of factorisation scheme to define the parton distribution functions (PDFs) and hard-process cross-section. The modified minimal-subtraction ($\overline{\mathrm{MS}}$) scheme has long…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-12 Stéphane Delorme , Aleksander Kusina , Andrzej Siódmok , James Whitehead

We present a method developed by the NNPDF Collaboration that allows the inclusion of new experimental data into an existing set of parton distribution functions without the need for a complete refit. A Monte Carlo ensemble of PDFs may be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Francesco Cerutti , Nathan Hartland

The dipole formalism provides a powerful framework from which parton showers can be constructed. In a recent paper, we proposed a dipole shower with improved colour accuracy and in this paper we show how it can be further improved. After an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-29 Jack Holguin , Jeffrey R. Forshaw , Simon Plätzer

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

We present PDFFlow, a new software for fast evaluation of parton distribution functions (PDFs) designed for platforms with hardware accelerators. PDFs are essential for the calculation of particle physics observables through Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Stefano Carrazza , Juan M. Cruz-Martinez , Marco Rossi

Standard dipole parton showers are known to yield incorrect subleading-colour contributions to the leading (double) logarithmic terms for a variety of observables. In this work, concentrating on final-state showers, we present two simple,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-29 Keith Hamilton , Rok Medves , Gavin P. Salam , Ludovic Scyboz , Gregory Soyez

A new method to construct event-generators based on next-to-leading order QCD matrix-elements and leading-logarithmic parton showers is proposed. Matrix elements of loop diagrams as well as those of a tree level can be generated using an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Kurihara

Nonlinear parametric inverse problems appear in many applications and are typically very expensive to solve, especially if they involve many measurements. These problems pose huge computational challenges as evaluating the objective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Drayton Munster , Eric de Sturler

This study proposes a method to enhance neural network performance when training data and application data are not very similar, e.g., out of distribution problems, as well as pattern and regime shifts. The method consists of three main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jan Saynisch-Wagner , Saran Rajendran Sari

This paper assesses the uncertainties inherent to parton shower simulations at double logarithmic accuracy, with a focus on their impact on jet quenching studies in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. For that purpose, we developed a massless…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Carlota Andres , Liliana Apolinário , Néstor Armesto , André Cordeiro , Fabio Dominguez , José Guilherme Milhano

We present the main results of our recent papers, where we derived an analytical solution of the QCD evolution equations for parton distribution functions. The valence and non-singlet quark components satisfy the Gross-Llewellyn-Smith and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-24 A. V. Kotikov , A. V. Lipatov

We explore the role of parametrizations for nonperturbative QCD functions in global analyses, with a specific application to extending a phenomenological analysis of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the charged pion realized in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-17 Lucas Kotz , Aurore Courtoy , Pavel Nadolsky , Fredrick Olness , Maximiliano Ponce-Chavez

I show that with simple extensions of the shower algorithms in Monte Carlo programs, one can implement NLO corrections to the hardest emission that overcome the problems of negative weighted events found in previous implementations. Simple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Paolo Nason

Modern analysis on parton distribution functions (PDFs) requires calculations of the log-likelihood functions from thousands of experimental data points, and scans of multi-dimensional parameter space with tens of degrees of freedom. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 DianYu Liu , ChuanLe Sun , Jun Gao

Histogram-based template fits are the main technique used for estimating parameters of high energy physics Monte Carlo generators. Parametrized neural network reweighting can be used to extend this fitting procedure to many dimensions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-08 Anders Andreassen , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Benjamin Nachman , Natchanon Suaysom , Adi Suresh

This paper proposes a deep neural network approach for predicting multiphase flow in heterogeneous domains with high computational efficiency. The deep neural network model is able to handle permeability heterogeneity in high dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Gege Wen , Meng Tang , Sally M. Benson