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Parton Density Functions (PDFs) and their uncertainties are extremely important topics for both the Tevatron and the LHC. Experiments at the Tevatron can enhance this knowledge not only by constraining the PDF fits, but also by developing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D Bourilkov , R C Group , M R Whalley

Heavy quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) play an important role in several Standard Model and New Physics processes. Most analyses rely on the assumption that the charm and bottom PDFs are generated perturbatively by gluon splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Florian Lyonnet

In this contribution we discuss the main outcomes of our studies on the so called double parton distribution functions (dPDFs), accessible quantities in high energy proton-proton and proton nucleus collisions, in double parton scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Matteo Rinaldi

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) which characterize the structure of the proton are currently one of the dominant sources of uncertainty in the predictions for most processes measured at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Here we…

I review the current status of the nucleon PDFs determined from global fits with emphasis on the impact of recent experimental data and the remaining theoretical challenges.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 S. Alekhin

We review the present status of the determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the light of the precision requirements for the LHC in Run 2 and other future hadron colliders. We provide brief reviews of all currently available…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 A. Accardi , S. Alekhin , J. Blümlein , M. V. Garzelli , K. Lipka , W. Melnitchouk , S. Moch , R. Placakyte , J. F. Owens , E. Reya , N. Sato , A. Vogt , O. Zenaiev

We present a global determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) that accounts for higher twist corrections in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) and linear power corrections for single inclusive jet and dijet production data from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-26 Richard D. Ball , Amedeo Chiefa , Roy Stegeman

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

We survey some of the recent developments in the extraction and application of heavy quark Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs). We also highlight some of the key HERA measurements which have contributed to these advances.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 K. Kovarik , T. Stavreva , A. Kusina , T. Jezo , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

We review the current state of the art in the determination of the parton substructure of the nucleon, as expressed in terms of parton distribution functions (PDFs), and probed in high-energy lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collisions, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-23 Stefano Forte , Graeme Watt

The NNPDF collaboration has recently presented NNPDF3.1, a new determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton including a number of new data, some of which are particularly sensitive to the gluon PDF at large x. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-25 Emanuele R. Nocera , Maria Ubiali

We present a study of the interplay between PDF and EFT effects in high-mass Drell-Yan at the LHC. We quantify the impact of a consistent joint determination of the PDFs and Wilson coefficients on the bounds obtained on the EFT and examine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Maeve Madigan , James Moore

Study of parton distribution functions (PDFs) has led to a finer cognisance of the structure of partons in hadrons and the proton structure functions in deep inelastic scattering (DIS). PDFs are instrumental in predicting results for most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-02 Akbari Jahan , Diptimonta Neog

We study the sensitivity of the High-Luminosity LHC to a light baryonic dark photon B, primarily coupled to quarks, as a constituent of the proton. This is achieved by allowing for a dark photon parton distribution function (PDF) in the PDF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Matthew McCullough , James Moore , Maria Ubiali

We present a new QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) at the next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). In the present paper, the role of special types of experimental measurements for extracting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-20 Majid Azizi , Ali Khorramian , Saeid Paktinat Mehdiabadi

The correct description of Double Parton Scattering (DPS), which represents a background in several channels for the search of new Physics at the LHC, requires the knowledge of double parton distribution functions (dPDFs). These quantities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Matteo Rinaldi , Sergio Scopetta , Marco Claudio Traini , Vicente Vento

Nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs), collinearly factorizable in perturbative QCD (pQCD), are currently extracted most reliably from global analyses of experimental data. Recently, the progress in this field has been driven…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-17 Petja Paakkinen

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

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) describe the structure of hadrons as composed of quarks and gluons. They are needed to make predictions for short-distance processes in high-energy collisions and are determined by fitting to cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Karol Kovarik , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Davison E. Soper

Heavy quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) play an important role in several Standard Model and New Physics processes. Most analyses rely on the assumption that the charm and bottom PDFs are generated perturbatively by gluon splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-08 Florian Lyonnet , Aleksander Kusina , Tomáš Ježo , Karol Kovařík , Fred Olness , Ingo Schienbein , Ji-Young Yu