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We present a lattice-QCD calculation of the unpolarized isovector parton distribution function (PDF) using ensembles at the physical pion mass with large proton boost momenta $P_z \in \{2.2,2.6,3.0\}$~GeV within the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-05-21 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Luchang Jin , Huey-Wen Lin , Yu-Sheng Liu , Yi-Bo Yang , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

We present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculation of quark quasi parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the large momentum effective theory. The nontrivial factorization at this order is established explicitly and the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Long-Bin Chen , Wei Wang , Ruilin Zhu

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

Traditionally, lattice QCD computations of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) have been carried out in a symmetric frame, where the transferred momentum is symmetrically distributed between the incoming and outgoing hadrons. However,…

We present three new sets of next-to-leading order parton distribution functions (PDFs) determined by global fits to a wide variety of data for hard scattering processes. The analysis includes target mass and higher twist corrections needed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-15 J. F. Owens , A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk

We study the factorization relations between quasi gluon GPDs and twist-2 GPDs. The perturbative coefficient functions are obtained at one-loop level. They are free from any collinear- or I.R. divergences. Unlike the case of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-20 J. P. Ma , Z. Y. Pang , C. P. Zhang , G. P. Zhang

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) form an essential part of particle physics calculations. Currently, the most precise predictions for these non-perturbative functions are generated through fits to global data. A problem that several PDF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-04 Mengshi Yan , Tie-Jiun Hou , Zhao Li , Kirtimaan Mohan , C. -P. Yuan

We investigate the behavior of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large parton momentum fractions x in the context of global QCD analysis. We explore the constraints from existing deep-inelastic scattering data, and from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Jimenez-Delgado , H. Avakian , W. Melnitchouk

The partons' transverse momentum can be explored with QCD lattice simulations by studying the quasi-transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (qTMDPDFs), which are factorized in terms of physical TMDPDFs and soft factors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Óscar del Río , Alexey Vladimirov

Many present lattice QCD approaches to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) rely on a factorization formula or effective theory expansion of certain Euclidean matrix elements in boosted hadron states. In the quasi- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-28 Xiang Gao , Kyle Lee , Swagato Mukherjee , Charles Shugert , Yong Zhao

I explain the current status of parton-distribution-function (PDF) studies and future experimental prospects on their determinations. First, unpolarized PDFs of the nucleon are introduced as a field of precision QCD physics including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-17 S. Kumano

A new and simple statistical approach is performed to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon in terms of light-front kinematic variables. We do not put in any extra arbitrary parameter or corrected term by hand,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-12 Yunhua Zhang , Lijing Shao , Bo-Qiang Ma

Study of parton distribution functions (PDFs) has led to a finer cognisance of the structure of partons in hadrons and the proton structure functions in deep inelastic scattering (DIS). PDFs are instrumental in predicting results for most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-02 Akbari Jahan , Diptimonta Neog

Perturbative expansions for short-distance quantities in QCD are factorially divergent and this deficiency can be turned into a useful tool to investigate nonperturbative corrections. In this work, we use this approach to study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-13 V. Braun , A. Vladimirov , J. -H. Zhang

In this paper, we present a detailed study of the unpolarized nucleon parton distribution function (PDF) employing the approach of parton pseudo-distribution functions. We perform a systematic analysis using three lattice ensembles at two…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-29 Bálint Joó , Joseph Karpie , Kostas Orginos , Anatoly Radyushkin , David Richards , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

This paper investigates the crucial role of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in high-energy physics, particularly their impact on the extraction of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) at zero skewness. To this aim, we perform six…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 The MMGPDs Collaboration , Fatemeh Irani , Muhammad Goharipour , K. Azizi

Knowledge of parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large momentum fraction $ x $ is not only important to study the flavor and spin dynamics of quarks in the nucleon, but also to search for signals of new physics at collider experiments.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Muhammad Goharipour , S. Rostami

We propose a revised definition of quasi-distributions within the framework of large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) that improves convergence towards the large-momentum limit. Since the definition of quasi-distributions is not unique,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-13 Tomomi Ishikawa , Luchang Jin , Huey-Wen Lin , Andreas Schäfer , Yi-Bo Yang , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

The quasi-PDF approach provides a path to computing parton distribution functions (PDFs) using lattice QCD. This approach requires matrix elements of a power-divergent operator in a nucleon at high momentum and one generically expects…

We construct a set of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in which fixed-order NLO and NNLO calculations are supplemented with soft-gluon (threshold) resummation up to NLL and NNLL accuracy respectively, suitable for use in conjunction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-13 Marco Bonvini , Simone Marzani , Juan Rojo , Luca Rottoli , Maria Ubiali , Richard D. Ball , Valerio Bertone , Stefano Carrazza , Nathan P. Hartland