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We discuss the main features of the recent NNPDF2.1 NLO set, a determination of parton distributions from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology including heavy quark mass effects. We present the implications for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-07 Francesco Cerutti

We present the determination of a set of parton distributions of the nucleon, at next-to-leading order, from a global set of deep-inelastic scattering data: NNPDF1.0. The determination is based on a Monte Carlo approach, with neural…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 Richard D. Ball , Luigi Del Debbio , Stefano Forte , Alberto Guffanti , Jose I. Latorre , Andrea Piccione , Juan Rojo , Maria Ubiali

We present the nCTEQ15 global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). The main addition to the previous nCTEQ PDFs is the introduction of PDF uncertainties based on the Hessian method. Another important improvement is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-04 A. Kusina

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 report on EPPS16, the first global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) to include LHC data. Also for the first time, a full flavour dependence of nPDFs is allowed. While the included Z and W data are found to have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-05 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

We evaluate the impact of recent SeaQuest (E906 experiment) data on dimuon production in proton-deuteron and proton-proton collisions on parton distribution functions (PDFs). We find these data in a good agreement with the QCD predictions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-20 S. Alekhin , M. V. Garzelli , S. Kulagin , S. -O. Moch

Uncertainties in the parametrization of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) are becoming a serious limiting systematic uncertainty in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) searches for Beyond the Standard Model physics. This is especially true for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-03-13 Christopher Willis , Raymond Brock , Daniel Hayden , Tie-Jiun Hou , Joshua Isaacson , Carl Schmidt , Chien-Peng Yuan

We present the first official release of the nCTEQ nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) with errors. The main addition to the previous nCTEQ PDFs is the introduction of PDF uncertainties based on the Hessian method. Another…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-27 A. Kusina

We extract the ratio of the down (d) and up (u) parton distribution functions (PDF's) from the ratio of deuteron and proton structure function F_2(d)/F_2(p) measured by NMC. We use corrections for nuclear binding effects in the deuteron,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 U. K. Yang , A. Bodek

In this talk, we discuss the compatibility of different deeply inelastic neutrino-nucleus data sets and the universal nuclear PDFs. This is an issue that has lately been investigated by different groups but the conclusions have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-12 Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

We report on an analysis of the impact of available experimental data on hard processes in proton-lead collisions during Run I at the Large Hadron Collider on nuclear modifications of parton distribution functions. Our analysis is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Néstor Armesto , Hannu Paukkunen , José Manuel Penín , Carlos A. Salgado , Pía Zurita

We introduce a global analysis of collinearly factorized nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) including, for the first time, data constraints from LHC proton-lead collisions. In comparison to our previous analysis, EPS09, where data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

A new QCD analysis for nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) is presented. The framework of the analysis, including the form of the parameterization as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-15 Marina Walt , Ilkka Helenius , Werner Vogelsang

We review progress in the global QCD analysis by the CTEQ-TEA group since the publication of CT18 parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton. Specifically, we discuss comparisons of CT18 NNLO predictions with the LHC 13 TeV…

Hessian PDF reweighting, or "profiling", has become a widely used way to study the impact of a new data set on parton distribution functions (PDFs) with Hessian error sets. The available implementations of this method have resorted to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-27 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen

There have been recent updates to the three global PDF fits (CT, MSHT and NNPDF), all adding large amounts of data from the LHC, and this has resulted in significant changes to the global PDFs. Given the impact that the new PDFs will have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-23 Thomas Cridge

We discuss the implications of the preliminary CMS dijet data from 5.02 TeV pp and pPb collisions for gluon PDFs of the proton and nuclei. The preliminary pp data show a discrepancy with NLO predictions using for example the CT14 PDFs. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-22 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen

We review the current status of Parton Distribution Function (PDF) determinations for unpolarized and longitudinally polarized protons and for unpolarized nuclei, which are probed by high-energy hadronic scattering in perturbative Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-18 Jacob J. Ethier , Emanuele R. Nocera

New experiments to measure neutrinos in the far-forward region at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are under design or already in preparation. Two of them, FASER$\nu$ and SND@LHC, are expected to be active during Run 3 and have the potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-04 Weidong Bai , Milind Diwan , Maria Vittoria Garzelli , Yu Seon Jeong , Fnu Karan Kumar , Mary Hall Reno

Parton distributions are an essential ingredient of the LHC program. PDFs are relevant for precision Standard Model measurements, for Higgs boson characterization as well as for New Physics searches. In this contribution I review recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-16 Juan Rojo