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An updated analysis regarding the expected nuclear PDF constraints from the future Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) experiment is presented. The new study is based on a more flexible small-$x$ parametrization which provides less biased…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-30 Ilkka Helenius , Hannu Paukkunen , Nestor Armesto

We present a new global QCD analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions and their uncertainties. In addition to the most commonly analyzed data sets for the deep-inelastic scattering of charged leptons off nuclei and Drell-Yan…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann , Pia Zurita

Nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs) are non-perturbative objects that encode the partonic behaviour of bound nucleons. To avoid potential higher-twist contributions, the data probing the high-$x$ end of nuclear PDFs are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Hannu Paukkunen , Pia Zurita

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 present LO, NLO and NNLO sets of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton determined from global analyses of the available hard scattering data. These MMHT2014 PDFs supersede the `MSTW2008' parton sets, but are obtained within…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin , P. Motylinski , R. S. Thorne

I explain the current status of parton-distribution-function (PDF) studies and future experimental prospects on their determinations. First, unpolarized PDFs of the nucleon are introduced as a field of precision QCD physics including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-17 S. Kumano

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

As data become more precise, estimating theoretical uncertainties in global PDF determinations is likely to become increasingly necessary to obtain correspondingly precise PDFs. Here we present a next generation of global proton PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-03 Rosalyn L. Pearson , Richard D. Ball , Emanuele R. Nocera

We present the first determination of parton distributions of the nucleon at NLO and NNLO based on a global data set which includes LHC data: NNPDF2.3. Our data set includes, besides the deep inelastic, Drell-Yan, gauge boson production and…

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

A precise knowledge of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) is -- among other things -- important for the unambiguous interpretation of hard process data taken in pA and AA collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-02 nCTEQ Collaboration , P. Duwentäster , L. A. Husová , T. Ježo , M. Klasen , K. Kovařík , A. Kusina , K. F. Muzakka , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

We present the new MSHT20 set of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton, determined from global analyses of the available hard scattering data. The PDFs are made available at NNLO, NLO, and LO, and supersede the MMHT14 sets.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-22 S. Bailey , T. Cridge , L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin , R. S. Thorne

We present the first quantitative demonstration of the statistical convergence of heavy-flavor parton distribution functions at small x across modern NNLO global fits. Using the latest NNPDF4.0, CT18, and MSHT20 sets, we find a maximal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 S. O. Kara

Recently a series of new measurements with both the neutral and charge current Drell--Yan processes have been performed at hadron colliders, showing deviations from the predictions of the current parton distribution functions (PDFs). In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-09 Zihan Zhao , Minghui Liu , Liang Han

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

Given the non-negligible interplay between parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large x and potential New Physics (NP) effects in the high-energy tails of hadron collider observables, a central question is which PDFs can be reliably…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-25 Ella Cole , Mark N. Costantini , Elie Hammou , Luca Mantani , Francesco Merlotti , Manuel Morales-Alvarado , Maria Ubiali

Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) contribute significantly to the uncertainty on the determination of the top-quark pole mass and other precision measurements at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is crucial to understand these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-25 Jason P. Gombas , Reinhard Schwienhorst , Binbin Dong , Jarrett Fein

The determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton will be an essential input for the physics program of a future 100 TeV hadron collider. The unprecedented center-of-mass energy will require knowledge of PDFs in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-27 Juan Rojo

The full exploitation of the increasingly precise LHC measurements is essential in order to reduce the uncertainty of theoretical predictions at hadron colliders. The NNPDF2.3 fit was the first PDF determination including the effect of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-14 Maria Ubiali

We present a new global QCD analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions. In addition to the most commonly analyzed data sets for deep inelastic scattering of charged leptons off nuclei and Drell Yan di-lepton production, we include…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-18 Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann , Pia Zurita