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We present a global determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) that accounts for higher twist corrections in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) and linear power corrections for single inclusive jet and dijet production data from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-26 Richard D. Ball , Amedeo Chiefa , Roy Stegeman

I consider variations in the definitions, at next-to-leading order (NLO) and at next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO), of a General-Mass Variable Flavour Number Scheme (GM-VFNS) for heavy flavour structure functions. I also define a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-12 R. S. Thorne

The need for accurate and precise polarised parton distribution functions (PDFs) is becoming increasingly crucial in view of the Electron-Ion Collider experimental program foreseen in the coming years. Two global PDF determinations at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-17 Amedeo Chiefa

Parton distribution functions play a pivotal role in hadron collider phenomenology. They are non-perturbative quantities extracted from fits to available data, and their scale dependence is dictated by the DGLAP evolution equations. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-08 Salvador A. Ochoa-Oregon , David F. Rentería-Estrada , Roger J. Hernández-Pinto , German F. R. Sborlini , Pia Zurita

Focusing on hadron scattering at large partonic momentum fractions $x$, we compare nonperturbative QCD predictions for the asymptotic behavior of DIS structure functions and parton distribution functions (PDFs) to the $x$ and $Q$ dependence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-30 Aurore Courtoy , Pavel M. Nadolsky

In high-energy particle physics, extracting parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculations remains a significant challenge, particularly due to the divergent nature of perturbative expansions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-26 Jia-Lu Zhang

The Hessian method is widely applied in the global analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs), which uses a set of orthogonal eigenvectors to give predictions of a physical observable. Its uncertainty is estimated based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-12 Wenxiao Zhan , Siqi Yang , Minghui Liu , Liang Han , Daniel Stump , C. -P. Yuan

A discussion is presented of the manner in which uncertainties in parton distributions and related quantities are determined. One of the central problems is the criteria used to judge what variation of the parameters describing a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. S. Thorne , H. Boettcher , A. M. Cooper-Sarkar , B. Reisert , V. Shekelyan , W. J. Stirling , D. R. Stump , A. Vogt

Perturbation Theory (PT) applied to a cosmological density field with Gaussian initial fluctuations suggests a specific hierarchy for the correlation functions when the variance is small. In particular quantitative predictions have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Munshi , F. Bernardeau , A. L. Melott , R. Schaeffer

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

We study the dependence of the transverse mass distribution of the charged lepton and the missing energies on the parton distributions (PDFs) adapted to the $W$ boson mass measurements at the CDF and ATLAS experiments. We compare the shape…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-10 Jun Gao , DianYu Liu , Keping Xie

We determine the uncertainty on the strong coupling alpha_S due to the experimental errors on the data fitted in global analysis of hard-scattering data, within the standard framework of leading-twist fixed-order collinear factorisation in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-22 A. D. Martin , W. J. Stirling , R. S. Thorne , G. Watt

The electron, positron, and photon Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the unpolarised electron have recently been computed at the next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy in QED, by adopting the $\overline{\rm MS}$ factorisation scheme. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-22 Stefano Frixione

We present a new method, based on Gaussian process regression, for reconstructing the continuous $x$-dependence of parton distribution functions (PDFs) from quasi-PDFs computed using lattice QCD. We examine the origin of the unphysical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-11-25 Constantia Alexandrou , Giovanni Iannelli , Karl Jansen , Floriano Manigrasso

If two probability density functions (PDFs) have values for their first $n$ moments which are quite close to each other (upper bounds of their differences are known), can it be expected that the PDFs themselves are very similar? Shown below…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Pranava Chaitanya Jayanti , Konstantina Trivisa

We propose a new method to calculate parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice correlations of boosted quarks and gluons in the Coulomb gauge. Compared to the widely used gauge-invariant Wilson-line operators, these correlations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-30 Xiang Gao , Wei-Yang Liu , Yong Zhao

The parton distributions functions (PDFs) derived from the NNLO QCD analysis of existing light-targets deep-inelastic-scattering data are presented. The NLO and NNLO PDFs are compared in order to analyze perturbative stability of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Alekhin

Under ideal conditions, the probability density function (PDF) of a random variable, such as a sensor measurement, would be well known and amenable to computation and communication tasks. However, this is often not the case, so the user…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Shane Lubold , Clark N. Taylor

We present the first global analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) at approximate N$^{3}$LO in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_{s}$, extending beyond the current highest NNLO achieved in PDF fits. To achieve this, we present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-14 J. McGowan , T. Cridge , L. A. Harland-Lang , R. S. Thorne

In the context of a recent CTEQ6.6 global analysis, we review a new technique for studying correlated theoretical uncertainties in hadronic observables associated with imperfect knowledge of parton distribution functions (PDFs). The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-08 Pavel M. Nadolsky