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Global fits for precision determinations of parton distributions, together with the highly correlated strong coupling $\alpha_s$, are presented up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) of QCD utilizing most world data (charm and jet…

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Nuclear parton distribution functions (NPDFs) are determined by a global analysis of experimental measurements on structure-function ratios F_2^A/F_2^{A'} and Drell-Yan cross section ratios \sigma_{DY}^A/\sigma_{DY}^{A'}, and their…

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

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 2014-11-20 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , Jose Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achin Wiedemann

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 next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculation of quark quasi parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the large momentum effective theory. The nontrivial factorization at this order is established explicitly and the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Long-Bin Chen , Wei Wang , Ruilin Zhu

We present a comprehensive new global QCD analysis of polarized inclusive deep-inelastic scattering, including the latest high-precision data on longitudinal and transverse polarization asymmetries from Jefferson Lab and elsewhere. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-13 Nobuo Sato , W. Melnitchouk , S. E. Kuhn , J. J. Ethier , A. Accardi

Nuclear parton distribution functions (NPDFs) are determined by global analyses of experimental data on structure-function ratios F_2^A/F_2^{A'} and Drell-Yan cross-section ratios \sigma_{DY}^A/\sigma_{DY}^{A'}. The analyses are done in the…

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

Deep inelastic scattering data on F2 structure function from various fixed-target experiments were analyzed in the non-singlet approximation with a next-to-next-to-leading-order accuracy. The study of high statistics deep inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 B. G. Shaikhatdenov , A. V. Kotikov , V. G. Krivokhizhin , G. Parente

We present an indirect determination of the top-quark pole mass $m_t$ within a global analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs), based on the public NNPDF framework. We consider a wide range of measurements, including both single-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Richard D. Ball , Jaco ter Hoeve , Roy Stegeman

We present a set of parton distribution functions (PDFs), based on the NNPDF2.3 set, which includes a photon PDF, and QED contributions to parton evolution. We describe the implementation of the combined QCD+QED evolution in the NNPDF…

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) with QED corrections extracted from the QED$\otimes$QCD DGLAP evolution equations in the framework of "valon" model. Our results for the PDFs with QED corrections in this phenomenological model are in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-25 Marzieh Mottaghizadeh , Fatemeh Taghavi Shahri , Parvin Eslami

Nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) can be determined in a global QCD analysis using a wide range of experimental data. In addition to older fixed-target deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan (DY) dilepton production data,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-12 Ilkka Helenius , Marina Walt , Werner Vogelsang

We calculate the electron structure functions, aka parton distribution functions (PDFs), to NNLO in QED. The calculation is based on the definition of the PDFs in terms of operator matrix elements in soft collinear effective theory (SCET)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Maximilian Stahlhofen

We present a lattice QCD calculation of the transversity isovector- and isoscalar-quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton utilizing a perturbative matching at next-to-leading-order (NLO) accuracy. Additionally, we determine…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-03-25 Xiang Gao , Andrew D. Hanlon , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Qi Shi , Sergey Syritsyn , Yong Zhao

We reanalyze deep inelastic scattering data of BCDMS Collaboration by including proper cuts of ranges with large systematic errors. We perform also the fits of high statistic deep inelastic scattering data of BCDMS, SLAC, NM and BFP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Krivokhijine , A. V. Kotikov

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

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

The neutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data is very interesting for global analyses of proton and nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) since they provide crucial information on the strange quark distribution in the proton and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-07 K. Kovarik , I. Schienbein , F. I. Olness , J. Y. Yu , C. Keppel , J. G. Morfin , J. F. Owens , T. Stavreva

We present a high-statistics lattice QCD determination of the valence parton distribution function (PDF) of the pion, with a mass of 300 MeV, using two very fine lattice spacings of $a=0.06$ fm and 0.04 fm. We reconstruct the $x$-dependent…

We present an explicit demonstration that a determination of the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s(m_Z)$ from deep-inelastic scattering and hadron collider data without a simultaneous determination of the parton distribution functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Stefano Forte , Juan Rojo , Roy Stegeman