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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 determine the pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) from its light-front wave functions, obtained using the holographic Schr\"odinger equation of light-front chiral QCD combined with the 't Hooft equation in (1+1)-dimensional QCD at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Jiangshan Lan , Satvir Kaur , Chandan Mondal

We review the current status of the global DGLAP analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions, nPDFs, focusing on the recent EPS09 analysis, whose output, EPS09NLO, is the best-constrained NLO nPDF set on the market. Collinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 K. J. Eskola , H. Paukkunen , C. A. Salgado

We present a lattice QCD calculation of the unpolarized isovector quark parton distribution function (PDF) of the proton utilizing a perturbative matching at next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO). The calculations are carried out using a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-05-10 Xiang Gao , Andrew D. Hanlon , Jack Holligan , Nikhil Karthik , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Sergey Syritsyn , Yong Zhao

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

We comprehensively analyse the cosmology dependence of counts-in-cell statistics. We focus on the shape of the one-point probability distribution function (PDF) of the matter density field at mildly nonlinear scales. Based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Cora Uhlemann , Oliver Friedrich , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Arka Banerjee , Sandrine Codis

Prompt photon production in pA collisions has long been suggested as a sensitive probe of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). In this study, we present recent results on another cold nuclear matter effect, namely fully…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 François Arleo , Djessy Bourgeais , Maxime Guilbaud , Greg Jackson , Víctor Valencia Torres

We present the first unbiased determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) with electroweak corrections. The aim of this thesis is to provide an exhaustive description of the theoretical framework and the technical implementation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-03 Stefano Carrazza

Double parton distribution functions (dPDF) represent a tool to explore the 3D proton structure. They can be measured in high energy proton-proton and proton nucleus collisions and encode information on how partons inside a proton are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Matteo Rinaldi , Sergio Scopetta , Marco Traini , Vicente Vento

Nuclear modifications to collinear parton distribution functions are conventionally quantified by the ratios $ r^{\textrm{A}}_i(x,Q^2) = f^\textrm{A,proton}_i(x,Q^2) / f^\textrm{proton}_i(x,Q^2) $. For a given nucleus $A$, these ratios…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 Meng-Quan Yang , Peng Ru , Ben-Wei Zhang

In this talk, we present our recent work on next-to-leading order (NLO) nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), which we call EPS09. As an extension to earlier NLO analyses, we complement the deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-17 Kari J. Eskola , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

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…

Collinear emission of $W$ bosons off a high-energy muon induces a large muon-neutrino component among the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of a muon. In this paper we study the phenomenology related to the $\nu_\mu$ PDF at future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-17 Rodolfo Capdevilla , Francesco Garosi , David Marzocca , Bernd Stechauner

Focusing on hadron scattering at large partonic momentum fractions $x$, we compare nonperturbative QCD predictions for the asymptotic behavior of DIS structure functions and parton distribution functions (PDFs) to the $x$ and $Q$ dependence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-30 Aurore Courtoy , Pavel M. Nadolsky

We discuss the recent CMS Collaboration measurement of $W^\pm$ boson production in p+Pb collisions at 8.16 TeV in terms of the constraining power on nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs). The impact of the free-proton PDF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-13 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

Using QCD calculations of the cross section of inclusive dijet photoproduction in Pb-Pb ultraperipheral collisions in the LHC kinematics as pseudo-data, we study the effect of including these data using the Bayesian reweighting technique on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 V. Guzey , M. Klasen

We present a determination of the parton distributions of the nucleon from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology at LO and NNLO in perturbative QCD, thereby generalizing to these orders the NNPDF2.1 NLO parton…

We study the prospects for constraining the nuclear parton distribution functions by small-x deep inelastic scattering. Performing a global fit of nuclear parton distribution functions including a sample of pseudodata representing expected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Hannu Paukkunen , Kari J. Eskola , Néstor Armesto

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

We review the series of specific nCTEQ analyses of nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) published since 2020 and present preliminary results of a new global analysis. Building on a modern proton baseline without nuclear data and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-08 M. Klasen