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We present NNPDF3.0, the first set of parton distribution functions (PDFs) determined with a methodology validated by a closure test. NNPDF3.0 uses a global dataset including HERA-II deep-inelastic inclusive cross-sections, the combined…

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

We present a determination of parton densities at NLO obtained with the Parton Branching method using precision measurements of deep inelastic scattering cross sections at HERA. The two sets of parton densities shown in this work are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-13 A. Bermudez Martinez , P. Connor , F. Hautmann , H. Jung , A. Lelek , V. Radescu , R. Zlebcik

Sets of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton are reported for the leading (LO), next-to-leading (NLO) and next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) QCD calculations. The parton distribution functions are determined with the…

We present NNPDFpol2.0, a new set of collinear helicity parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton based on legacy measurements of structure functions in inclusive neutral-current longitudinally polarised deep-inelastic scattering…

We present a study of the results obtained combining LO partonic matrix elements with either LO or NLO partons distributions. These are compared to the best prediction using NLO for both matrix elements and parton distributions. The aim is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Sherstnev , R. S. Thorne

In this article, we present a Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) QCD analysis to study the role and influence of different schemes on simultaneous determination of the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and strong coupling, $\alpha_s(M^2_Z)$. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-26 A. Vafaee , A. N. Khorramian

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

The interpretation of LHC data, and the assessment of possible hints of new physics, require the precise knowledge of the proton structure in terms of parton distribution functions (PDFs). I present a methodology designed to determine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-16 Elie Hammou

Global perturbative QCD analyses, based on large data sets from electron-proton and hadron collider experiments, provide tight constraints on the parton distribution function (PDF) in the proton. The extension of these analyses to nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-29 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , Jose Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achim Wiedemann

A "meta-analysis" is a method for comparison and combination of nonperturbative parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a nucleon obtained with heterogeneous procedures and assumptions. Each input parton distribution set is converted into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Jun Gao , Pavel Nadolsky

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

We investigate the parton distribution function (PDF) uncertainty in the measurement of the effective weak mixing angle $\sin^2\theta_{\text{eff}}^{\ell}$ at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The PDF-induced uncertainty is large in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-05-26 Yao Fu , Siqi Yang , Minghui Liu , Liang Han , Tie-Jiun Hou , Carl Schmidt , Chen Wang , C. -P. Yuan

We compare predictions for the W, Z, gg->H and t-tbar total cross sections at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), for a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, using the most recent publicly available next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-16 G. Watt

We present the first NNPDF full set of Parton Distribution Functions from a comprehensive DIS analysis. This approach, combining a Monte Carlo sampling of the probability measure in the space of PDFs with the use of neural networks as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Maria Ubiali

In this article we present a review of the structure of the proton and the current status of our knowledge of the parton distribution functions (PDFs). The lepton-nucleon scattering experiments which provide the main constraints in PDF…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-03-20 Emmanuelle Perez , Eram Rizvi

We determine the pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) from its light-front wave functions, obtained using the holographic Schr\"odinger equation of light-front chiral QCD combined with the 't Hooft equation in (1+1)-dimensional QCD at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Jiangshan Lan , Satvir Kaur , Chandan Mondal

We present a first attempt to design a quantum circuit for the determination of the parton content of the proton through the estimation of parton distribution functions (PDFs), in the context of high energy physics (HEP). The growing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 Adrián Pérez-Salinas , Juan Cruz-Martinez , Abdulla A. Alhajri , Stefano Carrazza

In the past year, polarized deep inelastic scattering experiments at CERN and SLAC have obtained structure function measurements off proton, neutron and deuteron targets at a level of precision never before achieved. The measurements can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 T. Gehrmann , W. J. Stirling

The accurate determination of the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the proton is an essential ingredient of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) program. PDF uncertainties impact a wide range of processes, from Higgs boson…