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Twist-3 partonic distributions contain important information that characterizes nucleon's structure. In this work, we show our lattice exploration of the twist-3 PDFs $g_T(x)$, and $h_L(x)$. We also present our preliminary results on the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-07-28 Shohini Bhattacharya , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Andreas Metz , Aurora Scapellato , Fernanda Steffens

We perform the first global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the pion, combining $\pi A$ Drell-Yan data with leading neutron electroproduction from HERA within a Monte Carlo approach based on nested sampling.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-17 P. C. Barry , N. Sato , W. Melnitchouk , Chueng-Ryong Ji

We present for first time the computation at large $q_T$ (or small $b_T$) matching coefficients of Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Distribution Function (TMDPDF) for linearly polarised to the integrated gluon distribution at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-19 Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes , Sergio Leal Gómez , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

We study the renormalization of a complete set of gauge-invariant gluon nonlocal operators in lattice perturbation theory. We determine the mixing pattern under renormalization of these operators using symmetry arguments, which extend…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-07-09 Demetrianos Gavriel , Haralambos Panagopoulos , Gregoris Spanoudes

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton are one of the essential ingredients to describe physics processes at hadron colliders. The Z boson production data at the LHC have a potential to constrain PDFs, especially the gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-31 Rajdeep M Chatterjee , Monoranjan Guchait , Ringaile Placakyte

Momentum and spatial distributions of quarks and gluons inside hadrons are typically encoded in the so-called generalized parton distributions (GPDs). GPDs are multi-dimensional quantities that are very challenging to extract, both…

Large momentum effective field theory provides a new direction for lattice QCD calculations of hadronic structure functions, such as parton distribution functions (PDFs), meson distribution amplitudes, and so on, directly with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-03 Xiaonu Xiong , Thomas Luu , Ulf-G. Meißner

We present the MMHT2015qed PDF set, resulting from the inclusion of QED corrections to the existing set of MMHT Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs), and which contain the photon PDF of the proton. Adopting an input distribution from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-10 L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin , R. Nathvani , R. S. Thorne

We calculate the gluon momentum fraction of the nucleon using lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD), with a nonperturbative renormalization technique based on the gradient flow. The gluon momentum fraction is determined on a single…

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 construct a framework for near-threshold $J/\psi$ photoproduction that combines a target-mass-corrected gluon-PDF moment expansion with an explicit scalar gravitational form factor associated with the QCD trace anomaly. Both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 A. I. Syamtomov

The extraction of parton distribution functions (PDFs) from experimental or lattice QCD data is an ill-posed inverse problem, where regularization strongly impacts both systematic uncertainties and the reliability of the results. We study a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-02-11 Yamil Cahuana Medrano , Hervé Dutrieux , Joseph Karpie , Kostas Orginos , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

This paper investigates the crucial role of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in high-energy physics, particularly their impact on the extraction of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) at zero skewness. To this aim, we perform six…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 The MMGPDs Collaboration , Fatemeh Irani , Muhammad Goharipour , K. Azizi

The interest into parton distribution functions (PDFs) and fragmentation functions (FFs) in current high energy physics research is twofold. On the one hand, they are fundamental objects to conduct precision phenomenology studies, e.g. at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Tanishq Sharma

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 review recent progress in the determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton, with emphasis on the applications for precision phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). First of all, we introduce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-23 Jun Gao , Lucian Harland-Lang , Juan Rojo

We report recent studies of the Asymmetry Analysis Collaboration (AAC) on polarized parton distribution functions (PDFs). Using the data on the spin symmetry A_1 in deep inelastic lepton scattering, we investigate optimum polarized PDFs.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , N. Saito

The formulas directly connecting parton distribution functions (PDFs) at the leading (LO) and the next to leading (NLO) QCD orders are applied to both unpolarized and polarized valence PDFs and produce improved LO results on these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-11 O. Yu. Shevchenko , R. R. Akhunzyanov

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

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) and light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) are central non-perturbative objects of interest in high-energy inelastic and elastic scattering, respectively. As a result, an ab-initio determination of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-22 William Detmold , Anthony V. Grebe , Issaku Kanamori , C. -J. David Lin , Robert J. Perry , Yong Zhao