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We present a methodology for the construction of parton distribution functions (PDFs) designed to provide an accurate representation of PDF uncertainties for specific processes or classes of processes with a minimal number of PDF error…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-17 Stefano Carrazza , Stefano Forte , Zahari Kassabov , Juan Rojo

We present a detailed study of the helicity-dependent and helicity-independent collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon, using the quasi-PDF approach. The lattice QCD computation is performed employing twisted mass…

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

We discuss the foundation for a new global nCTEQ nuclear PDF analysis, combining a number of our previous analyses into one consistent framework with updates to the underlying theoretical treatment as well as the addition of new available…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-18 P. Risse , N. Derakhshanian , P. Duwentäster , T. Ježo , C. Keppel , M. Klasen , K. Kovařík , A. Kusina , C. Léger , J. G. Morfín , F. I. Olness , R. Ruiz , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

A precise knowledge of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) is -- among other things -- important for the unambiguous interpretation of hard process data taken in pA and AA collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-02 nCTEQ Collaboration , P. Duwentäster , L. A. Husová , T. Ježo , M. Klasen , K. Kovařík , A. Kusina , K. F. Muzakka , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

Nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs), collinearly factorizable in perturbative QCD (pQCD), are currently extracted most reliably from global analyses of experimental data. Recently, the progress in this field has been driven…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-17 Petja Paakkinen

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

We review recent progress towards a determination of a set of polarized parton distributions from a global set of deep-inelastic scattering data based on the NNPDF methodology, in analogy with the unpolarized case. This method is designed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 J. Rojo , G. Ridolfi , R. D. Ball , V. Bertone , F. Cerutti , L. Del Debbio , S. Forte , A. Guffanti , J. I. Latorre , M. Ubiali

A precise knowledge of the quark and gluon structure of the proton, encoded by the parton distribution functions (PDFs), is of paramount importance for the interpretation of high-energy processes at present and future lepton-hadron and…

A "meta-analysis" is a method for comparison and combination of nonperturbative parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a nucleon obtained with heterogeneous procedures and assumptions. Each input parton distribution set is converted into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Jun Gao , Pavel Nadolsky

We present an improved leading-order global DGLAP analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), supplementing the traditionally used data from deep inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering and Drell-Yan dilepton production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 K. J. Eskola , H. Paukkunen , C. A. Salgado

We present a first lattice QCD calculation of the unpolarized nucleon's isovector transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs), which are essential to predict observables of multi-scale, semi-inclusive processes in…

We report the results of a Monte Carlo global QCD analysis of unpolarized parton distribution functions (PDFs), including for the first time constraints from ratios of $^3$He to $^3$H structure functions recently obtained by the MARATHON…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-15 C. Cocuzza , C. E. Keppel , H. Liu , W. Melnitchouk , A. Metz , N. Sato , A. W. Thomas

In this talk, I overview the recent progress on the global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nuclear PDFs). After first introducing the contemporary fits, the analysis procedures are quickly recalled and the ambiguities in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Hannu Paukkunen

A nonsinglet QCD analysis of neutrino-nucleon structure function is performed based on all the data for charged current neutrino-nucleon deep inelastic scattering (DIS) corresponds to NLO and NNLO approximations, with taking into account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-14 A. Ghaffari Tooran , A. Khorramian , H. Abdolmaleki

We present a new global QCD analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions and their uncertainties. In addition to the most commonly analyzed data sets for the deep-inelastic scattering of charged leptons off nuclei and Drell-Yan…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann , Pia Zurita

We quantify the impact of unpolarized lepton-proton and lepton-nucleus inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) cross section measurements from the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) on the proton and nuclear parton distribution functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Jacob J. Ethier , Emanuele R. Nocera , Juan Rojo

We present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculation of quark quasi parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the large momentum effective theory. The nontrivial factorization at this order is established explicitly and the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Long-Bin Chen , Wei Wang , Ruilin Zhu

We discuss the uncertainty on processes computed using next-to-next-to leading (NNLO) parton distributions (PDFs) due to the neglect of higher order perturbative corrections in the PDF determination, in the specific case of Higgs production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Stefano Forte , Andrea Isgro' , Gherardo Vita