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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 recent progress in the determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton, with emphasis on the applications for precision phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). First of all, we introduce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-23 Jun Gao , Lucian Harland-Lang , Juan Rojo

We present a determination of the parton distributions of the nucleon from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology including heavy quark mass effects: NNPDF2.1. In comparison to the previous NNPDF2.0 parton…

Heavy quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) play an important role in several Standard Model and New Physics processes. Most PDF analyses rely on the assumption that the charm and bottom PDFs are generated perturbatively by gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-17 A. Kusina

We present the first determination of parton distributions of the nucleon at NLO and NNLO based on a global data set which includes LHC data: NNPDF2.3. Our data set includes, besides the deep inelastic, Drell-Yan, gauge boson production and…

Heavy quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) play an important role in several Standard Model and New Physics processes. Most analyses rely on the assumption that the charm and bottom PDFs are generated perturbatively by gluon splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-08 Florian Lyonnet , Aleksander Kusina , Tomáš Ježo , Karol Kovařík , Fred Olness , Ingo Schienbein , Ji-Young Yu

We present a new QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) at the next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). In the present paper, the role of special types of experimental measurements for extracting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-20 Majid Azizi , Ali Khorramian , Saeid Paktinat Mehdiabadi

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 report on EPPS16 - the first analysis of NLO nuclear PDFs where LHC p-Pb data (Z, W, dijets) have been directly used as a constraint. In comparison to our previous fit EPS09, also data from neutrino-nucleus deeply-inelastic scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-26 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

Heavy quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) play an important role in several Standard Model and New Physics processes. Most analyses rely on the assumption that the charm and bottom PDFs are generated perturbatively by gluon splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Florian Lyonnet

Precision determinations of Standard Model (SM) Electro-Weak (EW) parameters at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are dominated by uncertainties due to Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs). Reweighting and profiling techniques are routinely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Juri Fiaschi , Francesco Giuli , Francesco Hautmann , Stefano Moretti

We present a determination of parton distribution functions (ABM11) and the strong coupling constant alpha_s at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD based on world data for deep-inelastic scattering and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Alekhin , J. Blumlein , S. Moch

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

Recently a series of new measurements with both the neutral and charge current Drell--Yan processes have been performed at hadron colliders, showing deviations from the predictions of the current parton distribution functions (PDFs). In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-09 Zihan Zhao , Minghui Liu , Liang Han

We have presented the results of our next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs) [Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 014026, arXiv:1601.00939 [hep-ph]] using all available neutral current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-17 S. Atashbar Tehrani

Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) are a key ingredient in theoretical predictions for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) observables and play a central role in the extraction of precision Standard Model (SM) and Beyond the SM (BSM) parameters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-02 Richard D. Ball , Tommaso Giani , Felix Hekhorn , Jaco ter Hoeve , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara , Juan Rojo , Roy Stegeman , Maria Ubiali

The LHC heavy ion data for W/Z production can provide new incisive information on the PDFs. This data is sensitive to the heavier quark flavors (strange and charm) in a high energy kinematic region; this can facilitate the determination of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-25 D. B. Clark , E. Godat , T. Jezo , C. Keppel , K. Kovarik , A. Kusina , F. Lyonnet , J. G. Morfin , F. I. Olness , J. F. Owens , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

We present the first quantitative demonstration of the statistical convergence of heavy-flavor parton distribution functions at small x across modern NNLO global fits. Using the latest NNPDF4.0, CT18, and MSHT20 sets, we find a maximal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 S. O. Kara

Global analyses of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) have provided incisive constraints on the up and down quark components of the proton, but constraining the other flavor degrees of freedom is more challenging. Higher-order theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-29 A. Kusina , T. Stavreva , S. Berge , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , K. Kovarik , T. Jezo , J. Y. Yu , K. Park

Non-perturbative QCD effects from Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) may be constrained by using high-statistics Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data. Drell-Yan (DY) measurements in the Charged Current (CC) case provide one of the primary…