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Reports on our latest extractions of parton distribution functions of the nucleon are given. First an overview of the recent JR14 upgrade of our unpolarized PDFs, including NNLO determinations of the strong coupling constant and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Pedro Jimenez-Delgado

An overwhelming number of theoretical predictions for hadron colliders require parton distribution functions (PDFs), which are an important ingredient of theory infrastructure for the next generation of high-energy experiments. This…

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

It has become apparent in recent years that it is important, notably for a range of physics studies at the Large Hadron Collider, to have accurate knowledge on the distribution of photons in the proton. We show how the photon parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-19 Aneesh Manohar , Paolo Nason , Gavin P. Salam , Giulia Zanderighi

Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) model the parton content of the proton. Among the many collaborations which focus on PDF determination, NNPDF pioneered the use of Neural Networks to model the probability of finding partons (quarks and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Juan M Cruz-Martinez , Stefano Carrazza , Roy Stegeman

Searches for new physics will increasingly depend on identifying deviations from precision Standard Model (SM) predictions. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) will necessarily play a central role in this endeavor as it provides the framework for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Aleksander Kusina , Florian Lyonnet , Fredrick I. Olness , Ingo Schienbein

The determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton will be an essential input for the physics program of a future 100 TeV hadron collider. The unprecedented center-of-mass energy will require knowledge of PDFs in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-27 Juan Rojo

Parton distributions are constructed in a statistical physical picture of the nucleon. The chiral properties of QCD lead to strong relations between quarks and antiquarks distributions and the importance of the Pauli exclusion principle is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacques Soffer

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

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) describe the structure of hadrons as composed of quarks and gluons. They are needed to make predictions for short-distance processes in high-energy collisions and are determined by fitting to cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Karol Kovarik , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Davison E. Soper

We review the theoretical foundations, methodological approaches and current status of the determination of nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs). A large variety of measurements in fixed-target and collider experiments provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 M. Klasen

In this document, we summarize the status and challenges of calculating parton physics in lattice QCD for the US Particle Physics Community Planning Exercise (a.k.a. "Snowmass"). While PDF-moments calculations have been very successful and…

In this work, we investigate the constituent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the kaon and heavy pseudoscalar mesons within the light-cone quark model. Starting from the initial scale quark and antiquark PDFs, obtained by evaluating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Satyajit Puhan

We present a first lattice QCD calculation of the unpolarized nucleon's isovector transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs), which are essential to predict observables of multi-scale, semi-inclusive processes in…

I review the basics of the collinear factorization theorem applied primarily to deep inelastic scattering (DIS) involving forward parton distributions (PDFs) and the extensions of this theorem for exclusive processes probing non-forward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Lech Szymanowski

We present a comprehensive new global QCD analysis of unpolarized parton distribution functions (PDFs) based upon proton, deuteron and $A\!=\!3$ data, including the latest inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) measurements from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 C. Cocuzza , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato , A. W. Thomas

We present a first QCD analysis of next-to-next-leading-order (NNLO) contributions of the spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PPDFs) in the nucleon and their uncertainties using the Jacobi polynomial approach. Having the NNLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-24 F. Taghavi Shahri , Hamzeh Khanpour , S. Atashbar Tehrani , Z. Alizadeh Yazdi

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 provide an assessment of the state of the art in various issues related to experimental measurements, phenomenological methods and theoretical results relevant for the determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) and their…

We study nuclear effects of charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the framework of a chi^2 analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs). We extract a set of iron PDFs which are used to compute x_Bj-dependent and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-06-05 I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu , C. Keppel , J. G. Morfin , Fredrick I. Olness , J. F. Owens