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We investigate the behavior of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large parton momentum fractions x in the context of global QCD analysis. We explore the constraints from existing deep-inelastic scattering data, and from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Jimenez-Delgado , H. Avakian , W. Melnitchouk

The quasi parton distribution is a spatial correlation of quarks or gluons along the $z$ direction in a moving nucleon which enables direct lattice calculations of parton distribution functions. It can be defined with a nonperturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-28 Iain W. Stewart , Yong Zhao

We apply the Lagrange Multiplier method to study the uncertainties of physical predictions due to the uncertainties of parton distribution functions (PDFs), using the cross section for W production at a hadron collider as an archetypal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 D. Stump , J. Pumplin , R. Brock , D. Casey , J. Huston , J. Kalk , H. L. Lai , W. K. Tung

We report on our exploratory study for the direct evaluation of the parton distribution functions from lattice QCD, based on a recently proposed new approach. We present encouraging results using Nf = 2 + 1 + 1 twisted mass fermions with a…

We present a new method to calculate moments of parton distribution functions of any order with lattice QCD computations. This method leverages the gradient flow for fermion and gauge fields. The flowed matrix elements of twist-2 operators…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-10-02 Andrea Shindler

In lattice-QCD calculations of parton distribution functions (PDFs) via large-momentum effective theory, the leading power (twist-three) correction appears as ${\cal O}(\Lambda_{\rm QCD}/P^z)$ due to the linear-divergent self-energy of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-09 Rui Zhang , Jack Holligan , Xiangdong Ji , Yushan Su

Applications of perturbative QCD to deeply virtual Compton scattering and hard exclusive electroproduction processes require a generalization of usual parton distributions for the case when long-distance information is accumulated in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 A. V. Radyushkin

Parton distribution functions play a pivotal role in hadron collider phenomenology. They are non-perturbative quantities extracted from fits to available data, and their scale dependence is dictated by the DGLAP evolution equations. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-08 Salvador A. Ochoa-Oregon , David F. Rentería-Estrada , Roger J. Hernández-Pinto , German F. R. Sborlini , Pia Zurita

Parton distribution functions (DFs) have long been recognised as key measures of hadron structure. Today, theoretical prediction of such DFs is becoming possible using diverse methods for continuum and lattice analyses of strong interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Yang Yu , Craig D. Roberts

We present the results that are necessary in the ongoing lattice calculations of the gluon parton distribution functions (PDFs) within the pseudo-PDF approach. We give a classification of possible two-gluon correlator functions and identify…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-21 Ian Balitsky , Wayne Morris , Anatoly Radyushkin

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

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

We perform a comprehensive global QCD analysis of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs), combining all available data on inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), as well as inclusive weak boson and jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 C. Cocuzza , N. T. Hunt-Smith , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato , A. W. Thomas

In this paper, using the stochastic modeling of the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics in the momentum space, the evolution equations of the parton distribution functions (PDF) usually used in the hadrons phenomenology are generated.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 N. Olanj , E. Moradi , M. Modarres

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

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

This paper investigates the crucial role of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in high-energy physics, particularly their impact on the extraction of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) at zero skewness. To this aim, we perform six…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 The MMGPDs Collaboration , Fatemeh Irani , Muhammad Goharipour , K. Azizi

To facilitate lattice QCD calculations of nucleon structute, a set of quasi-parton distributions were recently introduced. These quasi-PDFs were shown to reduce to standard PDFs when the nucleon is boosted to high energies, $P_z\rightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-24 Leonard Gamberg , Zhong-Bo Kang , Ivan Vitev , Hongxi Xing

We study isovector unpolarized and helicity parton distribution functions (PDF) of the proton within the framework of Large Momentum Effective Theory. We use a gauge ensemble, generated by the MILC Collaboration, with a superfine lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-10-19 Zhouyou Fan , Xiang Gao , Ruizi Li , Huey-Wen Lin , Nikhil Karthik , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Sergey Syritsyn , Yi-Bo Yang , Rui Zhang

Study of parton distribution function (PDF) is a topic of significant interest in QCD. To overcome the shortcomings of conventional PDFs, several alternative methods have been suggested in recent years. The present work reports the x…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-14 D. K. Choudhury , Pijush Kanti Dhar