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Neutrino Deep Inelastic Scattering on nuclei is an essential process to constrain the strange quark parton distribution functions in the proton. The critical component on the way to using the neutrino DIS data in a proton PDF analysis is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 K. Kovarik

Fragmentation functions and their uncertainties are determined for pion, kaon, and proton by a global $\chi^2$ analysis of charged-hadron production data in electron-positron annihilation and by the Hessian method for error estimation. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai , K. Sudoh

Observable scattering processes entail emission-absorption of soft photons. As these degrees of freedom go undetected, some information is lost. Whether some of this information can be recovered in the observation of the hard photons,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-04 Xuan-Lin Su , Alioscia Hamma , Antonino Marciano

The accurate determination of the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the proton is an essential ingredient of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) program. PDF uncertainties impact a wide range of processes, from Higgs boson…

We study proton-lead collisions with a new model for the Fock states of the incoming proton. The number of collisions which the proton experiences selects the appropriate Fock state of the proton which generates a multiple of pp-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 H. J. Pirner , B. Kopeliovich

Shannon information entropy provides an effective tool to study the evolution process in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The time evolution process of thermodynamic entropy $S_{\rm thermal}$, multiple entropy $S_{\rm mul}$, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Fei Li , Gang Chen

Recent results on cross sections sensitive to the parton distribution functions (PDFs) within the proton from the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations are presented. The potential impact on the inclusion of these data in fits to the PDFs is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-06-09 Mark Sutton

Fractal plays an important role in nonlinear science. The most important parameter to model fractal is fractal dimension. Existing information dimension can calculate the dimension of probability distribution. However, given a mass function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Chenhui Qiang , Yong Deng , Kang Hao Cheong

Tensor-polarized twist-3 parton distribution functions (PDFs) $f_{LT}(x)$ are calculated for the spin-1 deuteron by using twist-2 relations, which are similar to the Wandzura-Wilczek relation and the Burkhardt-Cottingham sum rule in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-17 S. Kumano , Kenshi Kuroki

We study nuclear effects of charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron scattering in the framework of a chi^2 analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs). We extract a set of iron PDFs which are used to compute x_Bj-dependent and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-06-05 I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu , C. Keppel , J. G. Morfin , Fredrick I. Olness , J. F. Owens

A mini-review on the status of global analyses of nuclear parton distribution functions is given, focusing on the most relevant constraints for the hard-probes phenomenology in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-01 Petja Paakkinen

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

A central task in analyzing complex dynamics is to determine the loci of information storage and the communication topology of information flows within a system. Over the last decade and a half, diagnostics for the latter have come to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-20 Ryan G. James , Nix Barnett , James P. Crutchfield

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

We present the first global analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) at approximate N$^{3}$LO in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_{s}$, extending beyond the current highest NNLO achieved in PDF fits. To achieve this, we present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-14 J. McGowan , T. Cridge , L. A. Harland-Lang , R. S. Thorne

Recent high precision experimental data from a variety of hadronic processes opens new opportunities for determination of the collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton. In fact, the wealth of information from experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-24 Bo-Ting Wang , T. J. Hobbs , Sean Doyle , Jun Gao , Tie-Jiun Hou , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Fredrick I. Olness

This presentation's Part 3 studies the evolutionary information processes and regularities of evolution dynamics, evaluated by an entropy functional (EF) of a random field (modeled by a diffusion information process) and an informational…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-08-17 Vladimir S. Lerner

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

An overwhelming number of theoretical predictions for hadron colliders require parton distribution functions (PDFs), which are an important ingredient of theory infrastructure for the next generation of high-energy experiments. This…

Soft pp interactions are considered in the framework of the phenomenological model with color strings formation. Under the assumption, that the elementary collision is realized as interaction of two color dipoles, the total inelastic cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-23 V. N. Kovalenko