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In this article we obtain a new set of nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs) at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order accuracy in perturbative QCD. The common nuclear deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-17 Hamzeh Khanpour , Maryam Soleymaninia , S. Atashbar Tehrani , Hubert Spiesberger , Vadim Guzey

We present LO, NLO and NNLO sets of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton determined from global analyses of the available hard scattering data. These MMHT2014 PDFs supersede the `MSTW2008' parton sets, but are obtained within…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin , P. Motylinski , R. S. Thorne

We investigate the behavior of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large parton momentum fractions x in the context of global QCD analysis. We explore the constraints from existing deep-inelastic scattering data, and from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Jimenez-Delgado , H. Avakian , W. Melnitchouk

We consider the generic problem of performing a global fit to many independent data sets each with a different overall multiplicative normalization uncertainty. We show that the methods in common use to treat multiplicative uncertainties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-06-02 The NNPDF Collaboration , Richard D. Ball , Luigi Del Debbio , Stefano Forte , Alberto Guffanti , Jose I. Latorre , Juan Rojo , Maria Ubiali

The need for accurate and precise polarised parton distribution functions (PDFs) is becoming increasingly crucial in view of the Electron-Ion Collider experimental program foreseen in the coming years. Two global PDF determinations at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-17 Amedeo Chiefa

We present main elements of the construction of unintegrated double parton distribution functions which depend on transverse momenta of partons. We follow the method proposed by Kimber, Martin and Ryskin for a construction of unintegrated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Krzysztof Golec-Biernat , Anna Stasto

The comparative analysis of different sets of the parton distribution functions (PDFs), based on the description of the whole sets of experimental data of electromagnetic form factors of the proton and neutron, is made in the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 O. V. Selyugin

The statistical approach is used to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon. At first it is assumed that the partons are free particles and the light-front kinematic variables are employed to extract the Bjorken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-27 A. Mirjalili , M. Dehghani , M. M. Yazdanpanah

We outline the historical development of MRST/MSTW parton distribution functions (PDFs), and clarify how they should be regarded when compared to the most up-to-date 2008 MSTW sets, noting which sets are now obsolete and the reasons why.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-15 R. S. Thorne , A. D. Martin , W. J. Stirling , G. Watt

The inclusive distributions of gluons and pions for high-energy NN collisions are calculated. The results for several unintegrated gluon distributions (UGD's) from the literature are compared. We find huge differences in both rapidity and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Antoni Szczurek

We have investigated the unpolarized valence quark generalized parton distribution functions (GPDs) and parton distribution functions (PDFs) for heavy spin-$0$, $B$- and $D$-mesons in the light-front quark model (LFQM). PDFs have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-16 Satyajit Puhan , Harleen Dahiya

Study of parton distribution function (PDF) is a topic of significant interest in QCD. To overcome the shortcomings of conventional PDFs, several alternative methods have been suggested in recent years. The present work reports the x…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-14 D. K. Choudhury , Pijush Kanti Dhar

We formulate a general approach to the inclusion of theoretical uncertainties, specifically those related to the missing higher order uncertainty (MHOU), in the determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs). We demonstrate how,…

We present the first unbiased determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) with electroweak corrections. The aim of this thesis is to provide an exhaustive description of the theoretical framework and the technical implementation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-03 Stefano Carrazza

We present the parton distribution functions (PDFs) for un- polarised, longitudinally polarized and transversely polarized quarks in a proton using the light-front quark diquark model. We also present the scale evolution of PDFs and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-08 Tanmay Maji , Dipankar Chakrabarti

The computation of the parton distribution functions (PDF) or distribution amplitudes (DA) of hadrons from first principles lattice QCD constitutes a central open problem. In this study, we present and evaluate the efficiency of a selection…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-05-01 Joseph Karpie , Kostas Orginos , Alexander Rothkopf , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We extract new parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton by global analysis of hard scattering data in the general-mass framework of perturbative quantum chromodynamics. Our analysis includes new theoretical developments together…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Hung-Liang Lai , Marco Guzzi , Joey Huston , Zhao Li , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Jon Pumplin , C. -P. Yuan

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is the primary method for investigations of inhomogeneous fluids in external fields. It requires the excess Helmholtz free energy functional as input to an Euler-Lagrange equation for the one-body…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-05 S. M. Tschopp , H. Vahid , J. M. Brader

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

Focusing on hadron scattering at large partonic momentum fractions $x$, we compare nonperturbative QCD predictions for the asymptotic behavior of DIS structure functions and parton distribution functions (PDFs) to the $x$ and $Q$ dependence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-30 Aurore Courtoy , Pavel M. Nadolsky