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We discuss the recent CMS Collaboration measurement of $W^\pm$ boson production in p+Pb collisions at 8.16 TeV in terms of the constraining power on nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs). The impact of the free-proton PDF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-13 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

A recent study by Wang {\it et al.}(arXiv:2309.01417) proposed a novel connection between the nature of the parton distribution function (PDF) and the characteristics of its moments. In this study, we apply these findings to analyze the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Xiaobin Wang , Zexin Wu , Minghui Ding , Lei Chang

The precision of fixed-order calculations on the dihadron production in electron-positron annihilation is paramount for probing QCD factorization and constraining non-perturbative inputs. This paper investigates the QCD corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-12 Wan-Li Ju , Zhe-Yan Shu , Tong-Zhi Yang , Zhen-Hua Zhang , Hua Xing Zhu

We critically examine uncertainties in parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large x arising from nuclear effects in deuterium F2 structure function data. Within a global PDF analysis, we assess the impact on the PDFs from uncertainties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk , J. F. Owens , M. E. Christy , C. E. Keppel , L. Zhu , J. G. Morfin

We present a new method, based on Gaussian process regression, for reconstructing the continuous $x$-dependence of parton distribution functions (PDFs) from quasi-PDFs computed using lattice QCD. We examine the origin of the unphysical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-11-25 Constantia Alexandrou , Giovanni Iannelli , Karl Jansen , Floriano Manigrasso

The high-energy tails of charged- and neutral-current Drell-Yan processes provide important constraints on the light quark and anti-quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the large-x region. At the same time, short-distance new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Admir Greljo , Shayan Iranipour , Zahari Kassabov , Maeve Madigan , James Moore , Juan Rojo , Maria Ubiali , Cameron Voisey

A determination of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) from a global fit to a dataset including measurements from the LHC has been performed. The determinations have been carried out according to the NNPDF methodology, leading to a fit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-04 Nathan Hartland

We apply the joint threshold and transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization theorem to introduce new threshold-TMD distribution functions, including threshold-TMD parton distribution functions (PDFs) and fragmentation functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-06 Zhong-Bo Kang , Kajal Samanta , Ding Yu Shao , Yang-Li Zeng

In this paper we calculate analytically the perturbative matching coefficients for unpolarized quark and gluon Transverse-Momentum-Dependent (TMD) Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and Fragmentation Functions (FFs) through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Ming-xing Luo , Tong-Zhi Yang , Hua Xing Zhu , Yu Jiao Zhu

We perform the first complete one-loop study of exclusive photoproduction of vector quarkonia off protons in Collinear Factorisation (CF) including the scale evolution of the Generalised Parton Distributions (GPDs). We confirm the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-10 C. A. Flett , J. P. Lansberg , S. Nabeebaccus , M. Nefedov , P. Sznajder , J. Wagner

Parton distributions are an essential ingredient of the LHC program. PDFs are relevant for precision Standard Model measurements, for Higgs boson characterization as well as for New Physics searches. In this contribution I review recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-16 Juan Rojo

Future high-energy $\textrm{e}^+\textrm{e}^-$ colliders will provide some of the most precise tests of the Standard Model. Statistical uncertainties on electroweak precision observables and triple gauge couplings are expected to improve by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Jakob Beyer , Jenny List

Modern parton distribution function (PDF) determinations either neglect higher-order corrections in the electroweak (EW) coupling or implement them approximately for a subset of PDF processes. We present a new tool, PineAPPL, which supports…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-13 Christopher Schwan

At large values of $x$ the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton are poorly constrained and there are considerable variations between different global fits. Data at such high $x$ have already been published by the ZEUS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-07-14 Ritu Aggarwal

Collinear parton distribution functions (cPDFs) and transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) are essential for calculating cross sections in high-energy physics, particularly within collinear and kt-factorization frameworks.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 R. Kord Valeshabadi , S. Rezaie

In this proceeding we present the impact of the EW corrections on $t \bar t$ distributions focusing on the effect of the photon PDF. We use the {\sc NNPDF2.3QED} and {\sc CT14QED} PDF sets, which include the photon PDF. We discuss a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-23 Ioannis Tsinikos

The formalism for uniform description of Drell-Yan transverse-momentum spectrum is presented in a framework of High-Energy Factorization, which smoothly interpolates between Collins-Soper-Sterman formalism at $|{\bf q}_T|\ll Q$ and usual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Maxim A. Nefedov , Vladimir A. Saleev

We summarize recent results obtained thanks to the phenomenology of Dihadron Fragmentation Functions. The results include the update on the fitting techniques for both the Dihadron Fragmentation Functions themselves and the transversity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-06 A. Courtoy

We discuss a test of the generalization power of the methodology used in the determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs). The "future test" checks whether the uncertainty on PDFs, in regions in which they are not constrained by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 Juan Cruz-Martinez , Stefano Forte , Emanuele R. Nocera

In the framework of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), parton distribution functions (PDFs) quantify how the momentum and spin of a hadron are divided among its quark and gluon constituents. Two main approaches exist to determine PDFs. The first…