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Heavy quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) play an important role in several Standard Model and New Physics processes. Most PDF analyses rely on the assumption that the charm and bottom PDFs are generated perturbatively by gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-17 A. Kusina

Using realistic quark propagators and meson Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes based on the Dyson-Schwinger equations, we calculate the pion and kaon's valence parton distribution functions (PDF) through the modified impulse approximation. The PDFs…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 Chao Shi , Cedric Mezrag , Hong-shi Zong

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton, a necessary input to almost all theory predictions for hadron colliders, are reviewed in this document. An introduction to the PDF determination by global analyses of the main PDF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Ringaile Placakyte

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 an updated determination of nuclear parton distributions (nPDFs) from a global NLO QCD analysis of hard processes in fixed-target lepton-nucleus and proton-nucleus together with collider proton-nucleus experiments. In addition to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-27 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Rhorry Gauld , Tommaso Giani , Emanuele R. Nocera , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara , Juan Rojo

Perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) ceases to be applicable at low interaction energies due to the rapid increase of the strong coupling. In that limit, the non-perturbative regime determines the properties of quarks and gluons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-06 Rabah Abdul Khalek

In global PDF analyses, parton distribution functions (PDFs) are parametrised at a fixed input scale $Q_0$ and evolved to higher scales using the DGLAP equations. Since QCD evolution is fully determined within perturbation theory, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Ivan A. Godino , Eva D. Z. Groenendijk , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara

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

The large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) framework has been widely used to determine the Bjorken-$x$ dependence of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in lattice-QCD hadron-structure calculations. In this proceeding, I highlighted…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-14 Huey-Wen Lin

We present recent progress within the NNPDF parton analysis framework. After a brief review of the results from the DIS NNPDF analysis, NNPDF1.0, we discuss results from an updated analysis with independent parametrizations for the strange…

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) describe the inner, non-perturbative structure of hadrons. Their computation involves matrix elements with a Wilson line along a direction on the light cone, posing significant challenges in Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-13 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , C. -J. David Lin , Manuel Schneider

Accurate Standard Model predictions of proton-proton collisions are essential for interpreting the current and forthcoming experimental measurements from high-energy colliders. The quest for physics beyond the Standard Model is in fact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-09 Giacomo Magni

Within the theory of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the rich structure of hadrons can be quantitatively characterized, among others, using a basis of universal non-perturbative functions: parton distribution functions (PDFs), generalized…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-06-14 Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou

We present a model-independent determination of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) using machine learning methods and Monte Carlo techniques based on the NNPDF framework. The neutral-current deep-inelastic nuclear structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Jacob J. Ethier , Juan Rojo , Gijs van Weelden

We review recent progress in the determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton, with emphasis on the applications for precision phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). First of all, we introduce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-23 Jun Gao , Lucian Harland-Lang , Juan Rojo

Quantitatively connecting properties of parton distribution functions (PDFs, or parton densities) to the theoretical assumptions made within the QCD analyses which produce them has been a longstanding problem in HEP phenomenology. To…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-08 Brandon Kriesten , Jonathan Gomprecht , T. J. Hobbs

As is the case for all light coloured Standard Model particles, also photons and charged leptons appear as constituents in ultrarelativistic hadron beams, and admit a parton density function (PDF). It has been shown recently that the photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Luca Buonocore , Paolo Nason , Francesco Tramontano , Giulia Zanderighi

A new ''$\mathtt{SK24}$'' non-singlet QCD analysis of the structure functions at the NNLO approximation is performed, utilizing the global fit of the data from various charged lepton scattering experiments. We extract the valence parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Javad Shahrzad , Ali Khorramian

The comparison of different sets of PDFs structure functions with the description of the whole sets of experimental data of electromagnetic form factors of the proton and neutron is made in the frame work of our model of t-dependence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 O. V. Selyugin

We develop a non-perturbative model for valence parton distribution functions (PDFs) based on the mean field interactions of valence quarks in the nucleonic interior. The main motivation for the model is to obtain a mean field description…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Christopher Leon , Misak Sargsian