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We demonstrate the robust scale-invariance in the probability density function (PDF) of detrended healthy human heart rate increments, which is preserved not only in a quiescent condition, but also in a dynamic state where the mean level of…

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The Standard Model (SM) is one of the most successful theories ever conceived, representing a triumph of human intellect and collaboration. The SM provides a very good description of visible matter, with the proton being a central part of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Manuel Morales Alvarado

We investigate the effect of extending the standard MSTW parameterisation of input parton distribution functions (PDFs) using Chebyshev polynomials. We find evidence that four powers in the polynomial are sufficient for extremely high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-18 A. D. Martin , A. J. Th. M. Mathijssen , W. J. Stirling , R. S. Thorne , B. J. A. Watt , G. Watt

We explore connections between two common methods for quantifying the uncertainty in parton distribution functions (PDFs), based on the Hessian error matrix and Monte-Carlo sampling. CT14 parton distributions in the Hessian representation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Tie-Jiun Hou , Jun Gao , Joey Huston , Pavel Nadolsky , Carl Schmidt , Daniel Stump , Bo-Ting Wang , Ke-Ping Xie , Sayipjamal Dulat , Jon Pumplin , C. -P. Yuan

We discuss strategies for comparisons of nonperturbative QCD predictions for parton distribution functions (PDFs) with high-energy experiments in the region of large partonic momentum fractions $x$. Analytic functional forms for PDFs cannot…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 A. Courtoy , Pavel M. Nadolsky

The un-integrated parton distribution functions (uPDFs) obtained from a CCFM evolution are studied in terms of the intrinsic transverse momentum distribution at low scales. The uPDFs are studied for variations of the renormalization and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hannes Jung

In many real-world applications of machine learning such as recommendations, hiring, and lending, deployed models influence the data they are trained on, leading to feedback loops between predictions and data distribution. The performative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Kun Jin , Tian Xie , Yang Liu , Xueru Zhang

We present a methodology for the construction of parton distribution functions (PDFs) designed to provide an accurate representation of PDF uncertainties for specific processes or classes of processes with a minimal number of PDF error…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-17 Stefano Carrazza , Stefano Forte , Zahari Kassabov , Juan Rojo

The computation of the parton distribution functions (PDF) or distribution amplitudes (DA) of hadrons from first principles lattice QCD constitutes a central open problem. In this study, we present and evaluate the efficiency of a selection…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-05-01 Joseph Karpie , Kostas Orginos , Alexander Rothkopf , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are nonperturbative quantities describing the relation between a hadron and quarks and gluons within it. We propose to extract PDFs from QCD global analysis of "data" generated by lattice QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-24 Yan-Qing Ma , Jian-Wei Qiu

We review basic ideas and recent developments on the determination of the parton substructure of the nucleon, in view of applications to precision hadron collider physics. We review the way information on parton distributions (PDFs) is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Stefano Forte

The normal distribution is used as a unified probability distribution, however, our researcher found that it is not good agreed with the real-life dynamical system's data. We collected and analyzed representative naturally occurring data…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Wei Ping Cheng , Zhi Hong Zhang , Pu Wang

The production of single top-quarks in the t-channel at hadron colliders imposes strong analytic constraints on parton distribution functions (PDFs) through its double deeply inelastic scattering (DDIS) form. We exploit this to provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 John Campbell , Tobias Neumann , Zack Sullivan

We study the probability distribution function (PDF) of the order parameter of the three-dimensional $O(N)$ model at criticality using the functional renormalisation group. For this purpose, we generalize the method introduced in [Balog et…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-28 Adam Rançon , Bertrand Delamotte , Lovro Šaravanja , Ivan Balog

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

When developing risk prediction models, shrinkage methods are recommended, especially when the sample size is limited. Several earlier studies have shown that the shrinkage of model coefficients can reduce overfitting of the prediction…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-29 Ben Van Calster , Maarten van Smeden , Ewout W. Steyerberg

The current analysis aims to present the results of a QCD analysis of diffractive parton distribution functions (diffractive PDFs) at next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy in perturbative QCD. In this new determination of diffractive PDFs,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-20 Atefeh Maktoubian , Hossein Mehraban , Hamzeh Khanpour , Muhammad Goharipour

Statistical models that include random effects are commonly used to analyze longitudinal and correlated data, often with strong and parametric assumptions about the random effects distribution. There is marked disagreement in the literature…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-01-11 Charles E. McCulloch , John M. Neuhaus

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 the first prediction of the probability distribution function (PDF) for self-organization of shear flows modeled by a nonlinear diffusion equation with a stochastic forcing. A novel non-perturbative method based on a coherent…

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