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We review basic ideas and recent developments on the determination of the parton substructure of the nucleon, in view of applications to precision hadron collider physics. We review the way information on parton distributions (PDFs) is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Stefano Forte

A study is presented of the impact of simulated inclusive Electron Ion Collider Deep Inelastic Scattering data on the determination of the proton and nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) at next-to-next-to-leading and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-18 Néstor Armesto , Thomas Cridge , Francesco Giuli , Lucian Harland-Lang , Paul Newman , Barak Schmookler , Robert Thorne , Katarzyna Wichmann

We present a new analysis to extract pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) within the framework of the statistical model. Starting from the statistical model first developed for the spin-1/2 nucleon, we extend this model to describe the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-29 Claude Bourrely , Wen-Chen Chang , Jen-Chieh Peng

We develop a light-front model of the proton to investigate the twist-3 chiral-even generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of light sea quarks. In this framework, sea quarks are treated as spin-\(\frac{1}{2}\) active partons, while the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Parashmani Thakuria , Madhurjya Lalung , Jayanta Kumar Sarma

We discuss the single-spin asymmetry in semi-inclusive DIS, $e p^\uparrow \to e \pi X$, based on the twist-3 mechanism in the collinear factorization relevant for the pion production with the large transverse-momentum. This updates our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-17 Yuji Koike , Kazuhiro Tanaka

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 investigate the twist-3 generalized parton distributions (GPDs) for the valence quarks of the proton within the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) framework. We first solve for the mass spectra and light-front waved functions (LFWFs)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Ziqi Zhang , Zhi Hu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We perform the first global QCD analysis of polarized inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering and single-inclusive $e^+e^-$ annihilation data, fitting simultaneously the parton distribution and fragmentation functions using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-04 J. J. Ethier , N. Sato , W. Melnitchouk

We present a calculation of the connected-diagram contributions to the first three non-trivial Mellin moments for the pion and kaon, extracted using local operators with up to 3 covariant derivatives. We use one ensemble of gauge…

In these proceedings, we propose an extraction of the valence transversity parton distributions. Based on an analysis of pion-pair production in deep-inelastic scattering off transversely polarized targets, this extraction of transversity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-28 A. Courtoy , Alessandro Bacchetta , Marco Radici

We report recent studies of the Asymmetry Analysis Collaboration (AAC) on polarized parton distribution functions (PDFs). Using the data on the spin symmetry A_1 in deep inelastic lepton scattering, we investigate optimum polarized PDFs.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , N. Saito

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the strange-antistrange parton distribution function (PDF) asymmetry in the proton in the framework of chiral effective theory, including the full set of lowest order kaon loop diagrams with off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 X. G. Wang , Chueng-Ryong Ji , W. Melnitchouk , Y. Salamu , A. W. Thomas , P. Wang

We present a systematic study of twist-3 generalized parton distributions (GPDs) for $\bar{u}$ and $\bar{d}$ sea quarks in the proton at zero skewness ($\xi=0$) using the light-cone formalism with overlap representation. The proton wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-21 Xiaoyan Luan , Zhun Lu

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 perform the first global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the pion, with lattice-QCD data on gluonic pseudo--Ioffe-time distributions fitted simultaneously with experimental Drell-Yan and leading neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 William Good , Patrick C. Barry , Huey-Wen Lin , W. Melnitchouk , Alex NieMiera , Nobuo Sato

We present the first global extraction of the jet transport coefficient ($\hat q$) for cold nuclear matter within the framework of higher-twist expansion. The analysis takes into account the world data on transverse momentum broadening in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Peng Ru , Zhong-Bo Kang , Enke Wang , Hongxi Xing , Ben-Wei Zhang

We propose an analysis method for the leading-twist operator product expansion based lattice QCD determinations of the valence parton distribution function (PDF). In the first step, we determine the confidence-intervals of the leading-twist…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-08 Nikhil Karthik , Raza Sabbir Sufian

We present the new parton distribution functions (PDFs) from the CTEQ-TEA collaboration, obtained using a wide variety of high-precision Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data, in addition to the combined HERA I+II deep-inelastic scattering data…

We present an extended version of the \texttt{ePump} framework that enables the simultaneous profiling of proton parton distribution functions (PDFs) and the strong coupling $\alpha_s$ using new experimental data. By promoting $\alpha_s$ to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Yao Fu , Carl Schmidt , C. --P. Yuan

We present an explicit demonstration that a determination of the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s(m_Z)$ from deep-inelastic scattering and hadron collider data without a simultaneous determination of the parton distribution functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Stefano Forte , Juan Rojo , Roy Stegeman