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We review the current status of spin-averaged and spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon. After presenting the formalism used to fit PDFs in modern global data analyses, we discuss constraints placed on the PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Jimenez-Delgado , W. Melnitchouk , J. F. Owens

To facilitate lattice QCD calculations of nucleon structute, a set of quasi-parton distributions were recently introduced. These quasi-PDFs were shown to reduce to standard PDFs when the nucleon is boosted to high energies, $P_z\rightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-24 Leonard Gamberg , Zhong-Bo Kang , Ivan Vitev , Hongxi Xing

In these proceedings, we summarize the main results from the first-ever calculations of the chiral-even and chiral-odd twist-3 parton distributions, $g_T(x)$ and $h_L(x)$, of the proton from lattice QCD. We use an $N_f=2+1+1$ ensemble of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-02 Shohini Bhattacharya , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Andreas Metz , Aurora Scapellato , Fernanda Steffens

Momentum and spatial distributions of quarks and gluons inside hadrons are typically encoded in the so-called generalized parton distributions (GPDs). GPDs are multi-dimensional quantities that are very challenging to extract, both…

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

We present a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) global QCD analysis of the proton's helicity parton distribution functions (PDFs), the first of its kind. To obtain the distributions, we use data for longitudinal spin asymmetries in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Ignacio Borsa , Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann , Werner Vogelsang

We perform a comprehensive global QCD analysis of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs), combining all available data on inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), as well as inclusive weak boson and jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 C. Cocuzza , N. T. Hunt-Smith , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato , A. W. Thomas

One of the great challenges of QCD is to determine the partonic structure of the nucleon from first principles. In this work, we provide such a determination of the flavor non-singlet ($u-d$) unpolarized parton distribution function (PDF),…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-03-03 Manjunath Bhat , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Aurora Scapellato

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large $x$ are poorly constrained by high-energy experimental data, but extremely important for probing physics beyond standard model at colliders. We study the calculation of PDFs at large-$x$ through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-05 Xiangdong Ji , Yizhuang Liu , Yushan Su

We present results on the Mellin moments of the unpolarized parton distribution function (PDF) of the pion and kaon up to the fourth order. The computation is done using one $N_f=2+1+1$ gauge ensemble of twisted mass fermions with quark…

Large momentum effective theory allows extraction of hadron parton distribution functions in lattice QCD by matching them to quark bilinear matrix elements of hadrons with large momenta. We calculate the matching kernels for the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-08-17 Chien-Yu Chou , Jiunn-Wei Chen

We quantify the impact of unpolarized lepton-proton and lepton-nucleus inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) cross section measurements from the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) on the proton and nuclear parton distribution functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Jacob J. Ethier , Emanuele R. Nocera , Juan Rojo

In the framework of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), parton distribution functions (PDFs) quantify how the momentum and spin of a hadron are divided among its quark and gluon constituents. Two main approaches exist to determine PDFs. The first…

The detailed comprehension of momentum fraction and energy dependence of proton structure functions is among the major difficulties in high-energy physics. Perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) plays as an extensive foundation for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-25 Akbari Jahan , Diptimonta Neog

Since its start of data taking, the LHC has provided an impressive wealth of information on the quark and gluon structure of the proton. Indeed, modern global analyses of parton distribution functions (PDFs) include a wide range of LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Shaun Bailey , Jun Gao , Lucian Harland-Lang , Juan Rojo

We discuss the physical nature of quasi-PDFs, especially the reasons for the strong nonperturbative evolution pattern which they reveal in actual lattice gauge calculations. We argue that quasi-PDFs may be treated as hybrids of PDFs and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-17 Anatoly Radyushkin

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

We extract pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a Monte Carlo global QCD analysis of experimental data together with reduced Ioffe time pseudo-distributions and matrix elements of current-current correlators generated from lattice…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 P. C. Barry , C. Egerer , J. Karpie , W. Melnitchouk , C. Monahan , K. Orginos , Jian-Wei Qiu , D. Richards , N. Sato , R. S. Sufian , S. Zafeiropoulos

We report a state-of-the-art lattice calculation of the isovector quark transversity distribution of the proton at the physical pion mass. Within the framework of large-momentum effective theory (LaMET), we compute the transversity…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-10-12 Yu-Sheng Liu , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Luchang Jin , Ruizi Li , Huey-Wen Lin , Yi-Bo Yang , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) provide process-independent information about the quarks and gluons inside hadrons. Although the gluon PDF can be obtained from a global fit to experimental data, it is not constrained well in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-09 Zhouyou Fan , Rui Zhang , Huey-Wen Lin