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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

We show how theoretical uncertainties due to nuclear effects may be incorporated into global fits of proton parton distribution functions (PDFs) that include deep-inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan data on nuclear targets. We specifically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Richard D. Ball , Emanuele R. Nocera , Rosalyn L. Pearson

The photon parton distribution function (PDF) of the proton is crucial for precise comparisons of LHC cross sections with theoretical predictions. However, it was previously affected by very large uncertainties of around ${\cal O}(100\%)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-26 Aneesh Manohar , Paolo Nason , Gavin Salam , Giulia Zanderighi

We report recent studies of the Asymmetry Analysis Collaboration (AAC) on polarized parton distribution functions (PDFs). Using the data on the spin symmetry A_1 in deep inelastic lepton scattering, we investigate optimum polarized PDFs.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , N. Saito

We present the nCTEQ15 global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). The main addition to the previous nCTEQ PDFs is the introduction of PDF uncertainties based on the Hessian method. Another important improvement is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-04 A. Kusina

We investigated a nuclear modification difference between up- and down-valence quark distributions by analyzing structure function F_2 and Drell-Yan cross-section ratios. Although nuclear modifications of the valence-quark distributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , T. -H. Nagai

We evaluate the uncertainties due to nuclear effects in global fits of proton parton distribution functions (PDFs) that utilise deep-inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan data on deuterium targets. To do this we use an iterative procedure to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Richard D. Ball , Emanuele R. Nocera , Rosalyn L. Pearson

We present the new nCTEQ15 set of nuclear parton distribution functions with uncertainties. This fit extends the CTEQ proton PDFs to include the nuclear dependence using data on nuclei all the way up to 208^Pb. The uncertainties are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 K. Kovarik , A. Kusina , T. Jezo , D. B. Clark , C. Keppel , F. Lyonnet , J. G. Morfin , F. I. Olness , J. F. Owens , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) are a non-negotiable input to almost all theory predictions at hadron colliders. In this talk, I introduce PDF determination by global analysis and discuss selected topics concerning recent relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-25 Graeme Watt

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 present the main results of our recent papers, where we derived an analytical solution of the QCD evolution equations for parton distribution functions. The valence and non-singlet quark components satisfy the Gross-Llewellyn-Smith and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-24 A. V. Kotikov , A. V. Lipatov

Neutrino Deep Inelastic Scattering on nuclei is an essential process to constrain the strange quark parton distribution functions in the proton. The critical component on the way to using the neutrino DIS data in a proton PDF analysis is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 K. Kovarik

We study an influence of precise data on uncertainty of polarized parton distribution functions. This analysis includes the SLAC-E155 proton target data which are precise measurements. Polarized PDF uncertainties are estimated by using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Hirai

We present the first official release of the nCTEQ nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) with errors. The main addition to the previous nCTEQ PDFs is the introduction of PDF uncertainties based on the Hessian method. Another…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-27 A. Kusina

We present a first determination of the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDF) based on the NNPDF methodology: nNNPDF1.0. This analysis is based on neutral-current deep-inelastic structure function data and is performed up to NNLO in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-23 Rabah Abdul Khalek , Jacob J. Ethier , Juan Rojo

We present the first official release of the nCTEQ nuclear parton distribution functions with errors. The main addition to the previous nCTEQ PDFs is the introduction of PDF uncertainties based on the Hessian method. Another important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-17 A. Kusina , K. Kovarik , T. Jezo , D. B. Clark , C. Keppel , F. Lyonnet , J. G. Morfin , F. I. Olness , J. F. Owens , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

The nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) of gluons are known to be difficult to determine with fits of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and Drell-Yan (DY) data alone. Therefore, the nCTEQ15 analysis of nuclear PDFs added inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-02 P. Duwentäster , L. A. Husová , T. Ježo , M. Klasen , K. Kovařík , A. Kusina , K. F. Muzakka , F. I. Olness , I. Schienbein , J. Y. Yu

Parton distributions functions (PDFs), which are essential to the interpretation of data from high energy colliders, are measured by representing them as functional forms containing many parameters. Those parameters are determined by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Jon Pumplin

A brief overview of the global DGLAP analyses of the nuclear parton distribution functions is given. Although all the current global nPDF sets describe $R_{F_2}^A(x,Q^2)$ well in the large-$x$ region where the data exist, variations between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 V. J. Kolhinen

Determination of parton distribution functions in nuclei is important for calculating nuclear corrections in oscillation experiments, from which detailed information should be extracted on neutrino properties. First, nuclear parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Kumano