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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

We critically examine uncertainties in parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large x arising from nuclear effects in deuterium F2 structure function data. Within a global PDF analysis, we assess the impact on the PDFs from uncertainties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 A. Accardi , W. Melnitchouk , J. F. Owens , M. E. Christy , C. E. Keppel , L. Zhu , J. G. Morfin

We present a new QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) at the next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). In the present paper, the role of special types of experimental measurements for extracting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-20 Majid Azizi , Ali Khorramian , Saeid Paktinat Mehdiabadi

High-energy proton-proton collisions at the LHC offer a stringent test of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in the small-$x$, gluon-dominated regime. This study focus on a minimal, gluon-driven framework to describe the charged-particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-26 Zhixiang Yang , Jianhong Ruan

We present an updated determination of nuclear parton distributions (nPDFs) from a global NLO QCD analysis of hard processes in fixed-target lepton-nucleus and proton-nucleus together with collider proton-nucleus experiments. In addition to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-27 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Rhorry Gauld , Tommaso Giani , Emanuele R. Nocera , Tanjona R. Rabemananjara , Juan Rojo

We present LO, NLO and NNLO sets of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton determined from global analyses of the available hard scattering data. These MMHT2014 PDFs supersede the `MSTW2008' parton sets, but are obtained within…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 L. A. Harland-Lang , A. D. Martin , P. Motylinski , R. S. Thorne

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) which characterize the structure of the proton are currently one of the dominant sources of uncertainty in the predictions for most processes measured at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Here we…

Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) model the parton content of the proton. Among the many collaborations which focus on PDF determination, NNPDF pioneered the use of Neural Networks to model the probability of finding partons (quarks and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Juan M Cruz-Martinez , Stefano Carrazza , Roy Stegeman

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

We consider double parton distribution functions (dPDFs), essential quantities in double parton scattering (DPS) studies, which encode novel non perturbative insight on the partonic proton structure. We develop the formalism to extract this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Matteo Rinaldi , Federico Alberto Ceccopieri

Nuclear parton distribution functions (NPDFs) are determined by global analyses of experimental data on structure-function ratios F_2^A/F_2^{A'} and Drell-Yan cross-section ratios \sigma_{DY}^A/\sigma_{DY}^{A'}. The analyses are done in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai

We show that the parton distribution functions (PDF) described by the statistical model have very interesting physical properties which help to understand the structure of partons. The role of the quark helicity components is emphasized as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-28 Claude Bourrely

We present an updated global analysis of collinearly factorized nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. In comparison to our previous fit, EPPS16, the present analysis includes more data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Kari J. Eskola , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen , Carlos A. Salgado

Focusing on hadron scattering at large partonic momentum fractions $x$, we compare nonperturbative QCD predictions for the asymptotic behavior of DIS structure functions and parton distribution functions (PDFs) to the $x$ and $Q$ dependence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-30 Aurore Courtoy , Pavel M. Nadolsky

Double parton distribution functions (dPDFs) represent a tool to explore the 3D partonic structure of the proton. They can be measured in high energy proton-proton and proton nucleus collisions and encode information on how partons inside a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Matteo Rinaldi

In this work, we investigate the constituent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the kaon and heavy pseudoscalar mesons within the light-cone quark model. Starting from the initial scale quark and antiquark PDFs, obtained by evaluating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Satyajit Puhan

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , Jose Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achin Wiedemann

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

We review the present status of the determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the light of the precision requirements for the LHC in Run 2 and other future hadron colliders. We provide brief reviews of all currently available…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 A. Accardi , S. Alekhin , J. Blümlein , M. V. Garzelli , K. Lipka , W. Melnitchouk , S. Moch , R. Placakyte , J. F. Owens , E. Reya , N. Sato , A. Vogt , O. Zenaiev

At the LHC we are colliding protons, but it is not the protons that are doing the interacting. It is their constituents the quarks, antiquarks and gluons-collectively known as partons. We need to know how what fractional momentum of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-24 A M Cooper-Sarkar