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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 present a new global determination of the helicity-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton, based on inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) and semi-inclusive DIS (SIDIS) data within a consistent next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Hamzeh Khanpour , Maryam Soleymaninia , Majid Azizi , Michael Klasen , Hadi Hashamipour , Maral Salajegheh , Ulf-G. Meißner

Uncertainties on parton distribution functions (PDFs) compromise discovery at the LHC for any new physics which can be described as a contact-interaction. PDF uncertainties also limit our ability to use W and Z cross-sections as an accurate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-07-12 A M Cooper-Sarkar

An updated analysis regarding the expected nuclear PDF constraints from the future Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) experiment is presented. The new study is based on a more flexible small-$x$ parametrization which provides less biased…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-30 Ilkka Helenius , Hannu Paukkunen , Nestor Armesto

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton are one of the essential ingredients to describe physics processes at hadron colliders. The Z boson production data at the LHC have a potential to constrain PDFs, especially the gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-31 Rajdeep M Chatterjee , Monoranjan Guchait , Ringaile Placakyte

We perform the analysis of existing light-targets deep-inelastic-scattering (DIS) data in the leading-order (LO), next-to-leading-order (NLO), and next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) QCD approximations and extract PDFs simultaneously with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergey Alekhin

We study the uncertainties of the Higgs boson production cross section through the gluon fusion subprocess at the LHC (with $\sqrt s=7, 8$ and $14$ TeV) arising from the uncertainties of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) and of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-21 Sayipjamal Dulat , Tie-Jiun Hou , Jun Gao , Joey Huston , Pavel Nadolsky , Jon Pumplin , Carl Schmidt , Daniel Stump , C. -P. Yuan

In global QCD fits of parton distribution functions (PDFs), a large part of the estimated uncertainty on the PDFs originates from the choices of parametric functional forms and fitting methodology. We argue that these types of uncertainties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Aurore Courtoy , Joey Huston , Pavel Nadolsky , Keping Xie , Mengshi Yan , C. -P. Yuan

In this talk, we present a way to improve the accuracy of theoretical predictions for Higgs boson production cross sections at the LHC using the measurements of lepton angular distributions. In this regards, we exploit the sensitivity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-08 Francesco Giuli

We apply the Lagrange Multiplier method to study the uncertainties of physical predictions due to the uncertainties of parton distribution functions (PDFs), using the cross section for W production at a hadron collider as an archetypal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 D. Stump , J. Pumplin , R. Brock , D. Casey , J. Huston , J. Kalk , H. L. Lai , W. K. Tung

Hessian PDF reweighting, or "profiling", has become a widely used way to study the impact of a new data set on parton distribution functions (PDFs) with Hessian error sets. The available implementations of this method have resorted to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-27 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen

A clear understanding of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) plays a crucial role in the interpretation of collider data taken at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and in the near future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 P. Duwentäster , T. Ježo , M. Klasen , K. Kovařík , A. Kusina , K. F. Muzakka , F. I. Olness , R. Ruiz , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

A method to facilitate the consistent inclusion of cross-section measurements based on complex final-states from HERA, TEVATRON and the LHC in proton parton density function (PDF) fits has been developed. This can be used to increase the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Tancredi Carli , Dan Clements , Amanda Cooper-Sarkar , Claire Gwenlan , Gavin P. Salam , Frank Siegert , Pavel Starovoitov , Mark Sutton

We present a new set of parton distributions, NNPDF3.1, which updates NNPDF3.0, the first global set of PDFs determined using a methodology validated by a closure test. The update is motivated by recent progress in methodology and available…

A short review of the currently available modern parton distribution functions (PDFs)and the theory predictions obtained using those PDFs for several benchmark processes at LHC, including Higgs boson production, is presented in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-23 Ringaile Placakyte

We provide an updated recommendation for the usage of sets of parton distribution functions (PDFs) and the assessment of PDF and PDF+$\alpha_s$ uncertainties suitable for applications at the LHC Run II. We review developments since the…

The analysis and the interpretation of the LHC data require a precise determination of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) in order to detect reliably potential signs of new physics. I present a systematic study designed to assess the risk…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Elie Hammou

In this paper we calculate the total and fiducial cross sections as well as differential distributions for the Higgs-strahlung or VH process $p p \to VH \to l\nu_l/l^- l^+ + H$, (V = W or Z, l=e,$\mu$) including QCD and electro-weak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-13 Pazilet Obul , Sayipjamal Dulat , Tie-Jiun Hou , Ablikim Tursun , Nijat Yalkun

The interest into parton distribution functions (PDFs) and fragmentation functions (FFs) in current high energy physics research is twofold. On the one hand, they are fundamental objects to conduct precision phenomenology studies, e.g. at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Tanishq Sharma

Given the non-negligible interplay between parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large x and potential New Physics (NP) effects in the high-energy tails of hadron collider observables, a central question is which PDFs can be reliably…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-25 Ella Cole , Mark N. Costantini , Elie Hammou , Luca Mantani , Francesco Merlotti , Manuel Morales-Alvarado , Maria Ubiali