English
Related papers

Related papers: ChiliPDF: Chebyshev Interpolation for Parton Distr…

200 papers

A wide range of numerical methods exists for computing polynomial approximations of solutions of ordinary differential equations based on Chebyshev series expansions or Chebyshev interpolation polynomials. We consider the application of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Alexandre Benoit , Mioara Joldes , Marc Mezzarobba

We illustrate how electron Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) with next-to-leading collinear logarithmic accuracy must be employed in the context of perturbative predictions for high-energy $e^+e^-$-collision processes. In particular, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-23 V. Bertone , M. Cacciari , S. Frixione , G. Stagnitto , M. Zaro , X. Zhao

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) with QED corrections extracted from the QED$\otimes$QCD DGLAP evolution equations in the framework of "valon" model. Our results for the PDFs with QED corrections in this phenomenological model are in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-25 Marzieh Mottaghizadeh , Fatemeh Taghavi Shahri , Parvin Eslami

The Hessian method is widely applied in the global analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs), which uses a set of orthogonal eigenvectors to give predictions of a physical observable. Its uncertainty is estimated based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-12 Wenxiao Zhan , Siqi Yang , Minghui Liu , Liang Han , Daniel Stump , C. -P. Yuan

We present PDFFlow, a new software for fast evaluation of parton distribution functions (PDFs) designed for platforms with hardware accelerators. PDFs are essential for the calculation of particle physics observables through Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Stefano Carrazza , Juan M. Cruz-Martinez , Marco Rossi

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

Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) are a key ingredient in theoretical predictions for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) observables and play a central role in the extraction of precision Standard Model (SM) and Beyond the SM (BSM) parameters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-02 Richard D. Ball , Tommaso Giani , Felix Hekhorn , Jaco ter Hoeve , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara , Juan Rojo , Roy Stegeman , Maria Ubiali

Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) contribute significantly to the uncertainty on the determination of the top-quark pole mass and other precision measurements at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is crucial to understand these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-25 Jason P. Gombas , Reinhard Schwienhorst , Binbin Dong , Jarrett Fein

The adaptive partition of unity interpolation method, introduced by Aiton and Driscoll, using Chebyshev local interpolants, is explored for interpolating functions with sharp gradients representing two-medium problems. For functions that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Alfa Heryudono , Mehdi Raessi

A scaled Chebyshev node distribution is studied in this paper. It is proved that the node distribution is optimal for interpolation in $C_M^{s+1}[-1,1]$, the set of $(s+1)$-time differentiable functions whose $(s+1)$-th derivatives are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-28 N. S. Hoang

Graph propagation (GP) computation plays a crucial role in graph data analysis, supporting various applications such as graph node similarity queries, graph node ranking, graph clustering, and graph neural networks. Existing methods, mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yichun Yang , Rong-Hua Li , Meihao Liao , Longlong Lin , Guoren Wang

In the context of a recent CTEQ6.6 global analysis, we review a new technique for studying correlated theoretical uncertainties in hadronic observables associated with imperfect knowledge of parton distribution functions (PDFs). The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-08 Pavel M. Nadolsky

In this talk, we present the results from our recent global reanalysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), where the DGLAP-evolving nPDFs are constrained by nuclear hard process data from deep inelastic $l+A$ scattering (DIS)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. J. Eskola , V. J. Kolhinen , H. Paukkunen , C. A. Salgado

We discuss the determination of the parton substructure of hadrons by casting it as a peculiar form of pattern recognition problem in which the pattern is a probability distribution, and we present the way this problem has been tackled and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-31 Stefano Forte , Stefano Carrazza

We present a determination of a set of polarized parton distributions (PDFs) of the nucleon, at next-to-leading order, from a global set of longitudinally polarized deep-inelastic scattering data: NNPDFpol1.0. The determination is based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-01 The NNPDF Collaboration , Richard D. Ball , Stefano Forte , Alberto Guffanti , Emanuele R. Nocera , Giovanni Ridolfi , Juan Rojo

We review the current status of spin-averaged and spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon. After presenting the formalism used to fit PDFs in modern global data analyses, we discuss constraints placed on the PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Jimenez-Delgado , W. Melnitchouk , J. F. Owens

We present preliminary results on the determination of spin-dependent, or polarised, Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) from all relevant inclusive polarised DIS data. The analysis is performed within the NNPDF approach, which provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-26 Emanuele R. Nocera , Stefano Forte , Giovanni Ridolfi , Juan Rojo

We discuss a Bayesian methodology for the solution of the inverse problem underlying the determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs). In our approach, Gaussian Processes (GPs) are used to model the PDF prior, while Bayes theorem…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-03 Alessandro Candido , Luigi Del Debbio , Tommaso Giani , Giacomo Petrillo

We present a systematic comparison of theoretical predictions and various high-precision experimental measurements, specifically of differential cross sections performed by the LHC run II for Drell-Yan gauge boson, top-quark pair,…

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) play a central role in calculations for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). To gain a deeper understanding of the emergence and interplay of constraints on the PDFs in the global QCD analyses, it is…