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A new generation of parton distribution functions with increased precision and quantitative estimates of uncertainties is presented. This work includes a full treatment of available experimental correlated systematic errors for both new and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wu-Ki Tung

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 a methodology for the construction of parton distribution functions (PDFs) designed to provide an accurate representation of PDF uncertainties for specific processes or classes of processes with a minimal number of PDF error…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-17 Stefano Carrazza , Stefano Forte , Zahari Kassabov , Juan Rojo

The role of global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in collider physics at the Tevatron and LHC is surveyed. Current status of PDF analyses are reviewed, emphasizing the uncertainties and the open issues. The stability…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-05 Wu-Ki Tung

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are nonperturbative objects defined by nonlocal light-cone correlations. They cannot be computed directly from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Using a standard lattice QCD approach, it is possible to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-08 Alessandro Bacchetta , Marco Radici , Barbara Pasquini , Xiaonu Xiong

We study the QCD sources of systematic uncertainties in the experimental extraction of the W cross section at hadron colliders. The uncertainties appear in the evaluation of the detector acceptances used to convert the number of observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 S. Frixione , M. L. Mangano

The production of single top-quarks in the t-channel at hadron colliders imposes strong analytic constraints on parton distribution functions (PDFs) through its double deeply inelastic scattering (DDIS) form. We exploit this to provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 John Campbell , Tobias Neumann , Zack Sullivan

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-29 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , Jose Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achim Wiedemann

A new and simple statistical approach is performed to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon in terms of light-front kinematic variables. We do not put in any extra arbitrary parameter or corrected term by hand,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-12 Yunhua Zhang , Lijing Shao , Bo-Qiang Ma

Reliable knowledge of parton distribution functions is crucial for many searches for new physics signals in the next generation of experiments. Presently, there remain a number of open questions regarding the PDF's and their uncertainties.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fredrick Olness

We present {\tt SKMHS22}, a new set of diffractive parton distribution functions (PDFs) and their uncertainties at next-to-leading-order accuracy in perturbative QCD within the {\tt xFitter} framework. We describe all available diffractive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-05 Maral Salajegheh , Hamzeh Khanpour , Ulf-G Meißner , Hadi Hashamipour , Maryam Soleymaninia

The detailed comprehension of momentum fraction and energy dependence of proton structure functions is among the major difficulties in high-energy physics. Perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) plays as an extensive foundation for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-25 Akbari Jahan , Diptimonta Neog

In this QCD analysis, we investigate the impact of recent measurements of heavy-flavor charm and beauty cross sections data sets on the simultaneous determination of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and the strong coupling,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-20 A. Vafaee , A. Khorramian

We investigate the parton distribution function (PDF) uncertainty in the measurement of the effective weak mixing angle $\sin^2\theta_{\text{eff}}^{\ell}$ at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The PDF-induced uncertainty is large in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-05-26 Yao Fu , Siqi Yang , Minghui Liu , Liang Han , Tie-Jiun Hou , Carl Schmidt , Chen Wang , C. -P. Yuan

We present {\tt GKG18-DPDFs}, a next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD analysis of diffractive parton distribution functions (diffractive PDFs) and their uncertainties. This is the first global set of diffractive PDFs determined within the {\tt…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-24 Muhammad Goharipour , Hamzeh Khanpour , Vadim Guzey

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

We explore the sensitivity of W and Z boson production in hadronic collisions to uncertainties in parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large x arising from uncertainties in nuclear corrections when using deuterium data in global QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 L. T. Brady , A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk , J. F. Owens

In an earlier publication, we introduced the software package, {\tt \texttt{ePump}} (error PDF Updating Method Package), that can be used to update or optimize a set of parton distribution functions (PDFs), including the best-fit PDF set…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-18 Tie-Jiun Hou , Zhite Yu , Sayipjamal Dulat , Carl Schmidt , C. -P. Yuan

We present a first attempt to design a quantum circuit for the determination of the parton content of the proton through the estimation of parton distribution functions (PDFs), in the context of high energy physics (HEP). The growing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 Adrián Pérez-Salinas , Juan Cruz-Martinez , Abdulla A. Alhajri , Stefano Carrazza

We present a new regression model for the determination of parton distribution functions (PDF) using techniques inspired from deep learning projects. In the context of the NNPDF methodology, we implement a new efficient computing framework…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Stefano Carrazza , Juan Cruz-Martinez