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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

Lattice QCD offers the possibility of computing parton distributions from first principles, although not in the usual $\overline{MS}$ factorization scheme. We study in this paper the evolution of non-singlet parton distribution functions…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-01 H. Dutrieux , J. Karpie , C. Monahan , K. Orginos , S. Zafeiropoulos

I investigate the behavior of spin-dependent parton distribution functions in the regions of small and large momentum fractions $x$. I present a systematic comparison between predictions for relevant observables obtained with various models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Emanuele Roberto Nocera

Nuclear parton distribution functions (NPDFs) are determined by a global analysis of experimental measurements on structure-function ratios F_2^A/F_2^{A'} and Drell-Yan cross section ratios \sigma_{DY}^A/\sigma_{DY}^{A'}, and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai

The pseudorapidity distributions of dijets as a function of their average transverse momentum ($p_\mathrm{T}^\text{ave}$) are measured in proton-lead (pPb) and proton-proton (pp) collisions. The data samples were collected by the CMS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-08-15 CMS Collaboration

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

In this work, we discuss: (i) The ratios of different parton distribution functions (PDFs), i.e., MMHT2014, CJ15, CTEQ6l1, HERAPDF15, MSTW2008, HERAPDF20 and MSHT20, and the corresponding Kimber-Martin-Ryskin (KMR) unintegrated parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 Z. Badieian Baghsiyahi , Majid Modarres , Ramin Kord Valeshabadi

We present the first lattice-QCD determination of the nucleon gluon parton distribution function (PDF) within the large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) framework, employing the hybrid scheme with self renormalization, in the continuum…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-11 Alex NieMiera , William Good , Huey-Wen Lin , Fei Yao

We present preliminary numerical results on the connected piece of the quasi-PDF of pion as determined using Wilson-Clover valence fermions on HISQ ensembles. We discuss its non-perturbative renormalization in RI/MOM scheme with and without…

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

In this work, we complete our CT18qed study with the neutron's photon parton distribution function (PDF), which is essential for the nucleus scattering phenomenology. Two methods, CT18lux and CT18qed, based on the LUXqed formalism and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-01 Keping Xie , Bei Zhou , T. J. Hobbs

We present the results that form the basis for calculations of the unpolarized gluon parton distributions (PDFs) using the pseudo-PDF approach. We give the results for the most complicated box diagram both for gluon bilocal operators with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Ian Balitsky , Wayne Morris , Anatoly Radyushkin

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

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Florian Lyonnet

We consider double parton distribution functions (dPDFs), essential quantities in double parton scattering (DPS) studies, which encode novel non perturbative insight on the partonic proton structure. We develop the formalism to extract this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Matteo Rinaldi , Federico Alberto Ceccopieri

Neutrino Deep Inelastic Scattering on nuclei is an essential process to constrain the strange quark parton distribution functions in the proton. The critical component on the way to using the neutrino DIS data in a proton PDF analysis is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 K. Kovarik

We present a lattice quantum chromodynamics calculation of the $x$-dependent isovector quark helicity parton distribution function (PDF) of the proton in the large momentum effective theory (LaMET) framework. Through operator product…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-06 Xiang Gao , Andrew D. Hanlon , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Hai-Tao Shu , Fei Yao , Rui Zhang , Yong Zhao

We propose a new method to calculate parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice correlations of boosted quarks and gluons in the Coulomb gauge. Compared to the widely used gauge-invariant Wilson-line operators, these correlations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-30 Xiang Gao , Wei-Yang Liu , Yong Zhao

We present the first lattice QCD calculations of the isovector helicity transverse momentum-dependent parton distribution function (TMDPDF) and the flavor-dependent unpolarized TMDPDFs for up and down quarks in the proton. Our computations…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-11-18 Dennis Bollweg , Xiang Gao , Swagato Mukherjee , Yong Zhao

We apply the Distillation spatial smearing program to the extraction of the unpolarized isovector valence PDF of the nucleon. The improved volume sampling and control of excited-states afforded by distillation leads to a dramatically…