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The DGLAP analyses of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDF) based on the global fits to the data are reviewed, and the results from EKS98 and HKM are compared. The usefulness of measuring hard probes in $pA$ collisions, at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. J. Eskola , H. Honkanen , V. J. Kolhinen , C. A. Salgado

We introduce a global analysis of collinearly factorized nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) including, for the first time, data constraints from LHC proton-lead collisions. In comparison to our previous analysis, EPS09, where data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

We present new parton distribution functions (PDFs) up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) from the CTEQ-TEA global analysis of quantum chromodynamics. These differ from previous CT PDFs in several respects, including the use of data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 Sayipjamal Dulat , Tie Jiun Hou , Jun Gao , Marco Guzzi , Joey Huston , Pavel Nadolsky , Jon Pumplin , Carl Schmidt , Daniel Stump , C. P. Yuan

We investigate the influence of modified nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) on high-pT hadron production at RHIC and LHC energies using a pQCD-improved parton model. For application at RHIC, we focus on the possible contribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. A. Cole , G. G. Barnafoldi , P. Levai , G. Papp , G. Fai

In this work, we compute the defect relative entropy between topological defects in the symmetric product orbifold CFT $\mathrm{Sym}^N(M) = M^{\otimes N}/S_N$. Our analysis covers two distinct classes of defects: universal defects, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Mostafa Ghasemi

Inclusive direct photon production in p+Pb collisions at the LHC is studied within the NLO perturbative QCD. Our aim is to quantify the dominant $x$ regions probed at different rapidities and to identify the best conditions for testing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Ilkka Helenius , Kari J. Eskola , Hannu Paukkunen

We have studied the prospects of using the Drell-Yan dilepton process in pion-nucleus collisions as a novel input in the global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). In a NLO QCD framework, we find the measured nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-17 Petja Paakkinen , Kari J. Eskola , Hannu Paukkunen

We consider the analysis of probability distributions through their associated covariance operators from reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. We show that the von Neumann entropy and relative entropy of these operators are intimately related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Francis Bach

We compute the distribution of quasideuterons in doubly closed shell nuclei and infinite correlated nuclear matter. The ground states of $^{16}$O and $^{40}$Ca are described in $ls$ coupling using a realistic hamiltonian including the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Yu. Illarionov

We perform the next-to-next-leading-order (NNLO) QCD global fit of PDFs using inclusive charged-lepton and neutrino DIS data down to Q = 1 GeV. We also consider the data on neutrino-nucleon dimuon production, that allows us to disentangle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-28 S. Alekhin , S. Kulagin , R. Petti

There have been suggestions to measure atomic parity nonconservation (PNC) along an isotopic chain, by taking ratios of observables in order to cancel complicated atomic structure effects. Precise atomic PNC measurements could make a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. J. Pollock , E. N. Fortson , L. Wilets

We propose a new method to determine the spatially or impact-parameter dependent nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) using the double parton scattering (DPS) processes in high-energy heavy-ion (proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-27 Hua-Sheng Shao

We calculate the entanglement entropy of a model proton wave function in coordinate space by integrating out degrees of freedom outside a small circular region $\bar A$ of radius $L$, where $L$ is much smaller than the size of the proton.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-18 Adrian Dumitru , Alex Kovner , Vladimir V. Skokov

We present a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) global QCD analysis of the proton's helicity parton distribution functions (PDFs), the first of its kind. To obtain the distributions, we use data for longitudinal spin asymmetries in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Ignacio Borsa , Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann , Werner Vogelsang

A new ''$\mathtt{SK24}$'' non-singlet QCD analysis of the structure functions at the NNLO approximation is performed, utilizing the global fit of the data from various charged lepton scattering experiments. We extract the valence parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Javad Shahrzad , Ali Khorramian

According to recent studies, Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) can be evaluated in a Constituent Quark Model (CQM) scenario, considering the constituent quarks as composite objects. In here, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Santiago Noguera , Sergio Scopetta , Vicente Vento

The entropy of an ergodic source is the limit of properly rescaled 1-block entropies of sources obtained applying successive non-sequential recursive pairs substitutions (see P. Grassberger 2002 ArXiv:physics/0207023 and D. Benedetto, E.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 D. Benedetto , E. Caglioti , G. Cristadoro , M. Degli Esposti

In a series of papers, we have investigated the compatibility of the $Kimber$-$Martin$-$Ryskin$ ($KMR$) and $Martin$-$Ryskin$-$Watt$ ($MRW$) $unintegrated$ parton distribution functions ($UPDF$) as well as the description of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-02 M. Modarres , M. R. Masouminia , R. Aminzadeh-Nik , H. Hosseinkhani , N. Olanj

Comparison of structure functions measured in neutrino and charged lepton deep inelastic scattering can be used to test basic properties of parton distribution functions such as the validity of charge symmetry. Recent experiments indicate a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Boros , J. T. Londergan , A. W. Thomas

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