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Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are nonperturbative quantities describing the relation between a hadron and quarks and gluons within it. We propose to extract PDFs from QCD global analysis of "data" generated by lattice QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-24 Yan-Qing Ma , Jian-Wei Qiu

Study of parton distribution functions (PDFs) has led to a finer cognisance of the structure of partons in hadrons and the proton structure functions in deep inelastic scattering (DIS). PDFs are instrumental in predicting results for most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-02 Akbari Jahan , Diptimonta Neog

In the framework of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), parton distribution functions (PDFs) quantify how the momentum and spin of a hadron are divided among its quark and gluon constituents. Two main approaches exist to determine PDFs. The first…

Perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) ceases to be applicable at low interaction energies due to the rapid increase of the strong coupling. In that limit, the non-perturbative regime determines the properties of quarks and gluons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-06 Rabah Abdul Khalek

We present the first global analysis of fragmentation functions (FFs) for light charged hadrons ($\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$) at full next-to-next-to-leading order in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), incorporating world data from both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 Jun Gao , XiaoMin Shen , Hongxi Xing , Yuxiang Zhao , Bin Zhou

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) provide process-independent information about the quarks and gluons inside hadrons. Although the gluon PDF can be obtained from a global fit to experimental data, it is not constrained well in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-09 Zhouyou Fan , Rui Zhang , Huey-Wen Lin

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 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

The strong force which binds hadrons is described by the theory of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Determining the character and manifestations of QCD is one of the most important and challenging outstanding issues necessary for a…

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) describe the structure of hadrons as composed of quarks and gluons. They are needed to make predictions for short-distance processes in high-energy collisions and are determined by fitting to cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Karol Kovarik , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Davison E. Soper

We review the current status of Parton Distribution Function (PDF) determinations for unpolarized and longitudinally polarized protons and for unpolarized nuclei, which are probed by high-energy hadronic scattering in perturbative Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-18 Jacob J. Ethier , Emanuele R. Nocera

Parton distribution functions (DFs) have long been recognised as key measures of hadron structure. Today, theoretical prediction of such DFs is becoming possible using diverse methods for continuum and lattice analyses of strong interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Yang Yu , Craig D. Roberts

The strong force which binds hadrons is described by the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Determining the character and manifestations of QCD is one of the most important and challenging outstanding issues necessary for a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-06-06 Huey-Wen Lin

Quasi parton distribution functions (QPDFs) are defined in terms of QCD fields at spacelike separations evaluated in matrix elements of hadrons moving with velocity $v$. These objects can be studied in lattice QCD. In the limit when $v$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Fatma Aslan , Asli Tandogan , Peter Schweitzer

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

Fragmentation functions (FFs) are essential non-perturbative QCD inputs for predicting hadron production cross sections in high energy scatterings. In this study, we present a joint determination of FFs for light charged hadrons through a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-20 Jun Gao , ChongYang Liu , XiaoMin Shen , Hongxi Xing , Yuxiang Zhao

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) describe the inner, non-perturbative structure of hadrons. Their computation involves matrix elements with a Wilson line along a direction on the light cone, posing significant challenges in Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-13 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , C. -J. David Lin , Manuel Schneider

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

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 investigate the parton-distribution functions (PDFs) for the positively charged pion and kaon at a low-renormalization scale ~ 1 GeV. To this end, we employ the gauge-invariant effective chiral action from the nonlocal chiral-quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Seung-il Nam
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