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We present the parton distribution functions (PDFs) for un- polarised, longitudinally polarized and transversely polarized quarks in a proton using the light-front quark diquark model. We also present the scale evolution of PDFs and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-08 Tanmay Maji , Dipankar Chakrabarti

The universality of the large momentum expansion allows computing parton distribution functions (PDFs) starting from any Euclidean correlator with appropriate large momentum Fourier Components. Here we consider current-current correlators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Jialu Zhang , Xiangdong Ji , Andreas Schäfer , Rui Zhang , Christian Zimmermann

We present a new regression model for the determination of parton distribution functions (PDF) using techniques inspired from deep learning projects. In the context of the NNPDF methodology, we implement a new efficient computing framework…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Stefano Carrazza , Juan Cruz-Martinez

We compute the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the unpolarised muon for the leptons, the photon, the light quarks, and the gluon. We discuss in detail the issues stemming from the necessity of evaluating the strong coupling constant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-14 Stefano Frixione , Giovanni Stagnitto

We perform a comprehensive new Monte Carlo analysis of high-energy lepton-lepton, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron scattering data to simultaneously determine parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton and parton to hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-20 E. Moffat , W. Melnitchouk , T. C. Rogers , N. Sato

We discuss the statistical properties of parton distributions within the framework of the NNPDF methodology. We present various tests of statistical consistency, in particular that the distribution of results does not depend on the…

A new and simple statistical approach is performed to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon in terms of light-front kinematic variables. Analytic expressions of x-dependent PDFs are obtained in the whole x…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-07 Lijing Shao , Yunhua Zhang , Bo-Qiang Ma

We review the latest progress in lattice QCD calculations of the partonic structure of hadrons. This structure is, in particular, described in terms of $x$-dependent distributions, the simplest of which are the standard parton distribution…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-18 Krzysztof Cichy

We compute the distribution amplitudes of the pion and kaon in the light-front constituent quark model with the symmetric quark-bound state vertex function. In the calculation we explicitly include the flavor-SU(3) symmetry breaking effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 J. P. B. C. de Melo , Isthiaq Ahmed , Kazuo Tsushima

Heavy quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) play an important role in several Standard Model and New Physics processes. Most PDF analyses rely on the assumption that the charm and bottom PDFs are generated perturbatively by gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-17 A. Kusina

Parton distribution functions play a pivotal role in hadron collider phenomenology. They are non-perturbative quantities extracted from fits to available data, and their scale dependence is dictated by the DGLAP evolution equations. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-08 Salvador A. Ochoa-Oregon , David F. Rentería-Estrada , Roger J. Hernández-Pinto , German F. R. Sborlini , Pia Zurita

Generalized Parton Distribution functions (GPDs) are off-diagonal light-cone matrix elements that encode the internal structure of hadrons in terms of quark and gluon degrees of freedom. In this work, we present the first nonperturbative…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-11-25 Sebastian Grieninger , Jake Montgomery , Felix Ringer , Ismail Zahed

We present recent results of the NNPDF collaboration on a full DIS analysis of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs). Our method is based on the idea of combining a Monte Carlo sampling of the probability measure in the space of PDFs with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-21 NNPDF Collaboration , M. Ubiali , R. D. Ball , L. Del Debbio , S. Forte , A. Guffanti , J. I. Latorre , A. Piccione , J. Rojo

In this work, we investigate the valence quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the pion within the light-cone quark model. The initial quark PDFs are calculated by solving the quark-quark correlation function for the pseudoscalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-08 Hari Govind P , Satyajit Puhan , Abhishek K. P , Reetanshu Pandey , Harleen Dahiya , Arvind Kumar , Suneel Dutt

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are central to precision QCD phenomenology. Their Mellin moments can be computed on the lattice, but direct determinations using local operators, besides $\langle x \rangle$, face severe challenges from…

We present a systematic comparison of theoretical predictions and various high-precision experimental measurements, specifically of differential cross sections performed by the LHC run II for Drell-Yan gauge boson, top-quark pair,…

We present PDFFlow, a new software for fast evaluation of parton distribution functions (PDFs) designed for platforms with hardware accelerators. PDFs are essential for the calculation of particle physics observables through Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Stefano Carrazza , Juan M. Cruz-Martinez , Marco Rossi

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

We present the MCscales approach for incorporating scale uncertainties in parton distribution functions (PDFs). The new methodology builds on the Monte Carlo sampling for propagating experimental uncertainties into the PDF space that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-27 Zahari Kassabov , Maria Ubiali , Cameron Voisey

We formulate a general approach to the inclusion of theoretical uncertainties, specifically those related to the missing higher order uncertainty (MHOU), in the determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs). We demonstrate how,…