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We present a first QCD analysis of next-to-next-leading-order (NNLO) contributions of the spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PPDFs) in the nucleon and their uncertainties using the Jacobi polynomial approach. Having the NNLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-24 F. Taghavi Shahri , Hamzeh Khanpour , S. Atashbar Tehrani , Z. Alizadeh Yazdi

For the foreseeable future, the exploration of the high-energy frontier will be the domain of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Of particular significance will be its high-luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC), which will operate until the mid-2030s.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-23 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Shaun Bailey , Jun Gao , Lucian Harland-Lang , Juan Rojo

We present the new MSHT20 set of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton, determined from global analyses of the available hard scattering data. The PDFs are made available at NNLO, NLO, and LO, and supersede the MMHT14 sets.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-22 S. Bailey , T. Cridge , L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin , R. S. Thorne

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

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,…

Global perturbative QCD analyses, based on large data sets from e-p and hadron collider experiments, provide tight constraints on the parton distribution function (PDF) in the proton. The extension of these analyses to nuclear parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-07 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , José Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achim Wiedemann

The photon parton distribution function (PDF) of the proton is crucial for precise comparisons of LHC cross sections with theoretical predictions. However, it was previously affected by very large uncertainties of around ${\cal O}(100\%)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-26 Aneesh Manohar , Paolo Nason , Gavin Salam , Giulia Zanderighi

We present a new set of parton distributions, NNPDF3.1, which updates NNPDF3.0, the first global set of PDFs determined using a methodology validated by a closure test. The update is motivated by recent progress in methodology and available…

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

We present new sets of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). Our analyses are based on deeply inelastic scattering data with charged-lepton and neutrino beams…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-17 Marina Walt , Ilkka Helenius , Werner Vogelsang

We present a determination of the parton distributions of the nucleon from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology at LO and NNLO in perturbative QCD, thereby generalizing to these orders the NNPDF2.1 NLO parton…

We present new sets of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Our analyses are based on deeply inelastic scattering data with charged-lepton and neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-09 Ilkka Helenius , Marina Walt , Werner Vogelsang

Precision measurements of heavy-flavor hadroproduction at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have the ability to probe heavy-flavor parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton. Sensitivity of inclusive $B^\pm$ meson production cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-15 Keping Xie , Marco Guzzi , Pavel Nadolsky

We present MAPPDFpol1.0, a new determination of the helicity-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton from a set of longitudinally polarised inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering data. The determination…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 MAP , Collaboration , : , Valerio Bertone , Amedeo Chiefa , Emanuele R. Nocera

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…

HERAFitter is an open-source package that provides a framework for the determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton and for many different kinds of analyses in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). It encodes results from…

I review recent progress in the NNPDF global analyses of parton distributions (PDFs) focusing on developments contributing to its new upcoming release: NNPDF4.0. The NNPDF4.0 determination represents unprecedented progress in three main…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-20 Juan Rojo

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

We present a first determination of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDF) based on the NNPDF methodology: nNNPDF1.0. This analysis is based on neutral-current deep-inelastic structure function data and is performed up to NNLO in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-23 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Jacob J. Ethier , Juan Rojo

We have presented the results of our next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs) [Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 014026, arXiv:1601.00939 [hep-ph]] using all available neutral current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-17 S. Atashbar Tehrani