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We apply a classical mathematical problem, the moment problem, with its related mathematical achievements, to the study of the parton distribution function (PDF) in hadron physics, and propose a strategy to sieve the moments of the PDF by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-27 Xiaobin Wang , Minghui Ding , Lei Chang

We present a discussion on the methods for extracting a given parameter from measurements of hadronic data, with particular focus on determinations of the strong coupling constant. We show that when the PDF dependency on the determination…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-15 Zahari Kassabov

Experimental data in particle and nuclear physics, particle astrophysics, and radiation protection dosimetry are collected using experimental facilities that consist of a complex system of sensors, electronics, and software. Measured…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-03-04 Nikolay D. Gagunashvili

Experimental data in Particle and Nuclear physics, Particle Astrophysics and Radiation Protection Dosimetry are obtained from experimental facilities comprising a complex array of sensors, electronics and software. Computer simulation is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-03-06 Nikolay D. Gagunashvili

We present three new sets of next-to-leading order parton distribution functions (PDFs) determined by global fits to a wide variety of data for hard scattering processes. The analysis includes target mass and higher twist corrections needed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-15 J. F. Owens , A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk

Despite the high accuracy of photometric redshifts (zphot) derived using Machine Learning (ML) methods, the quantification of errors through reliable and accurate Probability Density Functions (PDFs) is still an open problem. First, because…

Powder X-ray Diffraction (PXRD) and Pair Distribution Function (PDF) analysis are well-established techniques for investigation of atomic configurations in crystalline materials, and the two are related by a Fourier transformation. In PXRD…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-17 Jonas Beyer , Nikolaj Roth , Bo Brummerstedt Iversen

SUePDF is a graphic-user-interface program written in MATLAB to achieve quantitative pair distribution functions (PDF) from electron diffraction data. The program facilitates the structural studies of amorphous materials and small…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-24 Dung Trung Tran , Gunnar Svensson , Cheuk-Wai Tai

The choice of data that enters a global QCD analysis can have a substantial impact on the resulting parton distributions and their predictions for collider observables. One of the main reasons for this has to do with the possible presence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-11 Juan Rojo

We present {\tt SKMHS22}, a new set of diffractive parton distribution functions (PDFs) and their uncertainties at next-to-leading-order accuracy in perturbative QCD within the {\tt xFitter} framework. We describe all available diffractive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-05 Maral Salajegheh , Hamzeh Khanpour , Ulf-G Meißner , Hadi Hashamipour , Maryam Soleymaninia

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

We discuss strategies for comparisons of nonperturbative QCD predictions for parton distribution functions (PDFs) with high-energy experiments in the region of large partonic momentum fractions $x$. Analytic functional forms for PDFs cannot…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 A. Courtoy , Pavel M. Nadolsky

We investigate the Monte Carlo approach to propagation of experimental uncertainties within the context of the established "MSTW 2008" global analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton at next-to-leading order in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-13 G. Watt , R. S. Thorne

X-ray absorption spectroscopy is a crucial experimental technique for elucidating the mechanisms of structural degradation in battery materials. However, extracting information from the measured spectrum is challenging without high-quality…

Quantum computing offers the promise of speedups for scientific computations, but its application to reacting flows is hindered by nonlinear source terms, the challenges of time-dependent simulations, and the difficulty of extracting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Jizhi Zhang , Ziang Yang , Zhaoyuan Meng , Zhen Lu , Yue Yang

Quantitatively reliable atomic pair distribution functions (PDFs) have been obtained from nanomaterials in a straightforward way from a standard laboratory transmission electron microscope (TEM). The approach looks very promising for making…

In this paper we demonstrate that multi-modal Probability Distribution Functions (PDFs) may be efficiently sampled using an algorithm originally developed for numerical integrations by Monte-Carlo methods. This algorithm can be used to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. J. Abraham , L. M. Haines

We demonstrate a strategy for simulating wide-range X-ray scattering patterns, which spans the small- and wide scattering angles as well as the scattering angles typically used for Pair Distribution Function (PDF) analysis. Such simulated…

Recent advances in powerful pre-trained diffusion models encourage the development of methods to improve the sampling performance under well-trained diffusion models. This paper introduces Diffusion Rejection Sampling (DiffRS), which uses a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Byeonghu Na , Yeongmin Kim , Minsang Park , Donghyeok Shin , Wanmo Kang , Il-Chul Moon

The goal of this study is to determine a set of diffractive parton distribution function (diffractive PDFs) from a QCD analysis of all available and up-to-date diffractive deep inelastic scattering (diffractive DIS) data sets from HERA $ep$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-02 Hamzeh Khanpour