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We report on an extensive global QCD analysis of new DIS and hadronic inclusive jet production data emphasizing the impact of these recent data on the determination of the gluon distribution, and on the interpretation of the high $E_t$ jets…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Wu-Ki Tung

We present a study of the impact of data from the upcoming Electron Ion Collider (EIC) on the determination of the strong coupling within the context of the global MSHT fitting framework. To achieve this, we generate EIC electron-proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-09 L. A. Harland-Lang , T. Cridge , P. Newman , R. S. Thorne , K. Wichmann

The precise knowledge of parton distribution functions (PDFs) is indispensable to the accurate calculation of hadron-initiated QCD hard scattering observables. Much of our information on PDFs is extracted by comparing deep inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-03 David Westmark

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 present a determination of the parton distributions of the nucleon from a global set of hard scattering data using the NNPDF methodology: NNPDF2.0. Experimental data include deep-inelastic scattering with the combined HERA-I dataset,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Richard D. Ball , Luigi Del Debbio , Stefano Forte , Alberto Guffanti , Jose I. Latorre , Juan Rojo , Maria Ubiali

We present NNPDF4.0MC, a variant of the NNPDF4.0 set of parton distributions (PDFs) at LO, NLO and NNLO, with and without inclusion of the photon PDF, suitable for use with Monte Carlo (MC) event generators, which require PDFs to satisfy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-29 Juan Cruz-Martinez , Stefano Forte , Niccolo Laurenti , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara , Juan Rojo

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Kari J. Eskola , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

In this paper we calculate analytically the perturbative matching coefficients for unpolarized quark and gluon Transverse-Momentum-Dependent (TMD) Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and Fragmentation Functions (FFs) through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Ming-xing Luo , Tong-Zhi Yang , Hua Xing Zhu , Yu Jiao Zhu

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

The prospects of measuring a single-differential dijet cross section during the proposed short proton-oxygen data taking at LHC Run 3 are studied using next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD predictions. With reasonable experimental cuts…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Petja Paakkinen

We compare the cross section for exclusive $J/\psi$ photoproduction calculated at NLO in the collinear factorization approach with HERA and LHCb data. Using the optimum scale formalism together with the subtraction of the low $k_t<Q_0$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Chris A. Flett , Stephen P. Jones , Alan D. Martin , Misha G. Ryskin , Thomas Teubner

We present a new set of parton distributions obtained at NNLO. These differ from the previous sets available at NNLO due to improvements in the theoretical treatment. In particular we include a full treatment of heavy flavours in the region…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Martin , W. J. Stirling , R. S. Thorne , G. Watt

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

We perform a NNLO (and a LO) global parton analysis in which we include the new precise data for deep inelastic scattering from HERA and for inclusive jet production at the Tevatron, together with the improved knowledge of the three-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Martin , R. G. Roberts , W. J. Stirling , R. S. Thorne

We quantify the impact of LHCb D-meson measurements at $\sqrt{s}=5 \, {\rm TeV}$ on the EPPS16 and nCTEQ15 nuclear PDFs. In our study, the theoretical description of D-meson production is based on the recently developed SACOT-$m_{\rm T}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-11 Kari J. Eskola , Ilkka Helenius , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen

In this talk, we introduce our recently completed next-to-leading order (NLO) global analysis of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) called EPS09 - a higher order successor to the well-known leading-order (LO) analysis EKS98…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 H. Paukkunen , K. J. Eskola , C. A. Salgado

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

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 an updated version of the ABMP16 nucleon PDFs, which is tuned by using recent precise data on $W$- and $Z/\gamma^*$-production at the LHC and the final HERA data on DIS $c$- and $b$-quark production and by imposing a stringent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-10 S. Alekhin , J. Bluemlein , S. Moch

A thorough understanding of PDFs and their uncertainties is important for the LHC and for future collider experiments. The recently released NNPDF3.0 set was presented alongside results from closure tests, where PDF fits were performed on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Christopher S. Deans