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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

In this talk, we present our recent next-to-leading order (NLO) nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), which we call EPS09. As an extension to earlier NLO analyses, we supplement the deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan dilepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Kari J. Eskola , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

In this talk, we present our recent work on next-to-leading order (NLO) nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), which we call EPS09. As an extension to earlier NLO analyses, we complement the deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-17 Kari J. Eskola , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

As the current nuclear PDF analyses are mainly constrained by fixed-target Drell-Yan and deeply inelastic scattering data only the quark nuclear modifications at fairly large $x$ values are in a good control. Inclusive pion production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-02 Ilkka Helenius , Hannu Paukkunen , Kari J. Eskola

As data become more precise, estimating theoretical uncertainties in global PDF determinations is likely to become increasingly necessary to obtain correspondingly precise PDFs. Here we present a next generation of global proton PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-03 Rosalyn L. Pearson , Richard D. Ball , Emanuele R. Nocera

Proton-proton collisions at the LHC generate high-intensity collimated beams of forward neutrinos up to TeV energies. Their recent observations and the initiation of a novel LHC neutrino program motivate investigations of this previously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-04 Toni Mäkelä

New hard-scattering measurements from the LHC proton-lead run have the potential to provide important constraints on the nuclear parton distributions and thus contributing to a better understanding of the initial state in heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Nestor Armesto , Juan Rojo , Carlos A. Salgado , Pia Zurita

We compare predictions of nCTEQ15 nuclear parton distribution functions with proton-lead vector boson production data from the LHC. We select data sets that are most sensitive to nuclear PDFs and have potential to constrain them. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Kusina , F. Lyonnet , D. B. Clark , E. Godat , T. Jezo , K. Kovarik , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

The potential of the LHeC, a future electron-proton collider, for precision Deep Inelastic Scattering measurements is reviewed with particular emphasis on the reduction of uncertainties on the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 A M Cooper-Sarkar

The LHC has recently released precise measurements of the transverse momentum distribution of the Z-boson that provide a unique constraint on the structure of the proton. Theoretical developments now allow the prediction of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Radja Boughezal , Alberto Guffanti , Frank Petriello , Maria Ubiali

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…

We compute the cross section of inclusive dijet photoproduction in ultraperipheral Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC using next-to-leading order perturbative QCD. We demonstrate that our theoretical calculations provide a good description of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-08 V. Guzey , M. Klasen

In this talk we apply the photoproduction framework recently implemented into the Pythia 8 Monte Carlo event generator to study the potential of photo-nuclear dijets in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC to further constrain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-03 Ilkka Helenius

We study the charged current Drell-Yan process and we evaluate the proton parton densities uncertainties on the lepton transverse momentum distribution and their impact on the determination of the W-boson mass. We consider the global PDF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Giuseppe Bozzi , Luca Citelli , Alessandro Vicini

I consider the effects of including a variety of new LHC data sets into the MMHT approach for PDF determination. I consider the impact of fitting new LHC and Tevatron data, which leads to clear improvements in some PDF uncertainties. There…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 R. S. Thorne , L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin

We present the reweighting of two sets of nuclear PDFs, nCTEQ15 and EPPS16, using a selection of experimental data on heavy-flavor meson [D0, J/psi, J/psi from B and Upsilon(1S)] production in proton-lead collisions at the LHC which were…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-21 Aleksander Kusina , Jean-Philippe Lansberg , Ingo Schienbein , Hua-Sheng Shao

We study at a quantitative level the impact of the uncertainties on the value of the W boson mass measured at hadron colliders due to: the proton parton distribution functions (PDFs), the value of the strong coupling constant alpha_S and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-05 G. Bozzi , J. Rojo , A. Vicini

Determinations of the proton's collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) are emerging with growing precision due to increased experimental activity at facilities like the Large Hadron Collider. While this copious information is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-24 Bo-Ting Wang , T. J. Hobbs , Sean Doyle , Jun Gao , Tie-Jiun Hou , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Fredrick I. Olness

We review the series of specific nCTEQ analyses of nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) published since 2020 and present preliminary results of a new global analysis. Building on a modern proton baseline without nuclear data and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-08 M. Klasen

The neutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data is very interesting for global analyses of proton and nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) since they provide crucial information on the strange quark distribution in the proton and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-07 K. Kovarik , I. Schienbein , F. I. Olness , J. Y. Yu , C. Keppel , J. G. Morfin , J. F. Owens , T. Stavreva