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We present NNPDFpol2.0, a new set of collinear helicity parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton based on legacy measurements of structure functions in inclusive neutral-current longitudinally polarised deep-inelastic scattering…

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

We study the role of the $Z/\gamma$-interference parton distribution function (PDF) in high-energy muon colliders. We review how this PDF emerges when electroweak interactions are applied to the collinear splitting process and show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-18 David Marzocca , Alfredo Stanzione

We discuss strategies for comparisons of nonperturbative QCD predictions for parton distribution functions (PDFs) with high-energy experiments in the region of large partonic momentum fractions $x$. Analytic functional forms for PDFs cannot…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 A. Courtoy , Pavel M. Nadolsky

We summarize recent results on the evolution of unpolarized parton densities and deep-inelastic structure functions in massless perturbative QCD. Due to last year's extension of the integer-moment calculations of the three-loop splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 W. L. van Neerven , A. Vogt

We construct a set of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in which fixed-order NLO and NNLO calculations are supplemented with soft-gluon (threshold) resummation up to NLL and NNLL accuracy respectively, suitable for use in conjunction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-13 Marco Bonvini , Simone Marzani , Juan Rojo , Luca Rottoli , Maria Ubiali , Richard D. Ball , Valerio Bertone , Stefano Carrazza , Nathan P. Hartland

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

In this article we present a review of the structure of the proton and the current status of our knowledge of the parton distribution functions (PDFs). The lepton-nucleon scattering experiments which provide the main constraints in PDF…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-03-20 Emmanuelle Perez , Eram Rizvi

We present the first global analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) at approximate N$^{3}$LO in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_{s}$, extending beyond the current highest NNLO achieved in PDF fits. To achieve this, we present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-14 J. McGowan , T. Cridge , L. A. Harland-Lang , R. S. Thorne

The semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) process requires the presence of an identified hadron H$'$ in the final state, which arises from the scattering of a lepton with an initial hadron P. By employing factorization in quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 Saurav Goyal , Roman N. Lee , Sven-Olaf Moch , Vaibhav Pathak , Narayan Rana , V. Ravindran

A clear understanding of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) plays a crucial role in the interpretation of collider data taken at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and in the near future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 P. Duwentäster , T. Ježo , M. Klasen , K. Kovařík , A. Kusina , K. F. Muzakka , F. I. Olness , R. Ruiz , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

Modern analysis on parton distribution functions (PDFs) requires calculations of the log-likelihood functions from thousands of experimental data points, and scans of multi-dimensional parameter space with tens of degrees of freedom. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 DianYu Liu , ChuanLe Sun , Jun Gao

We extend the existing leading (LO), next-to-leading (NLO), and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) NNPDF4.0 sets of parton distribution functions (PDFs) to approximate next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (aN$^3$LO). We construct an…

To obtain more precise parton distribution functions (PDFs) it is important to include data on inclusive high transverse energy jet production in the global parton analyses. These data have high statistics and the NNLO terms in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 A. D. Martin , M. G. Ryskin

We present a lattice quantum chromodynamics calculation of the $x$-dependent isovector quark helicity parton distribution function (PDF) of the proton in the large momentum effective theory (LaMET) framework. Through operator product…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-06 Xiang Gao , Andrew D. Hanlon , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Hai-Tao Shu , Fei Yao , Rui Zhang , Yong 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

The comparison of different sets of PDFs structure functions with the description of the whole sets of experimental data of electromagnetic form factors of the proton and neutron is made in the frame work of our model of t-dependence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 O. V. Selyugin

Global perturbative QCD analyses, based on large data sets from e-p and hadron collider experiments, provide tight constraints on the parton distribution function (PDF) in the proton. The extension of these analyses to nuclear parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-07 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , José Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achim Wiedemann

We extract the ratio of the down (d) and up (u) parton distribution functions (PDF's) from the ratio of deuteron and proton structure function F_2(d)/F_2(p) measured by NMC. We use corrections for nuclear binding effects in the deuteron,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 U. K. Yang , A. Bodek

We describe the implementation of Quantum Electrodynamic (QED) evolution at Leading Order (LO) along with Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) evolution at Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) in the CTEQ-TEA Global analysis package. The inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Carl Schmidt , Jon Pumplin , Daniel Stump , C. -P. Yuan