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QCD analysis of valence structure functions using deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-06-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

A new ''SK24\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 distribution functions (PDFs) and provide a parametrization of them, along with the correlated errors for a wide range of xx and Q2Q^2. We compare valence PDFs and their uncertainties with those from different PDF sets provided by various groups. We also obtain valence PDFs and the strong coupling constant αs(MZ2)\alpha_{s}(M_Z^2), taking into account the nuclear correction concerning large xx as well as the target mass correction (TMC) and higher twist (HT) effects at the NNLO. In the large xx region, we extract the higher twist contributions of xF3(x,Q2)xF_3(x,Q^2), F2p(x,Q2)F_2^p (x,Q^2), and F2d(x,Q2)F_2^d(x,Q^2). We determine αs(MZ2)\alpha_{s}(M_Z^2) without and with considering the TMC and HT corrections and perform a comparison with the world average of αs(MZ2)\alpha_{s}(M_Z^2) and other reported results. The extracted results concerning valence PDFs with their uncertainties and αs(MZ2)\alpha_{s}(M_Z^2) value agree with available theoretical models.

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@article{arxiv.2405.02254,
  title  = {QCD analysis of valence structure functions using deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering},
  author = {Javad Shahrzad and Ali Khorramian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.02254},
  year   = {2024}
}

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26 pages, 15 figures, 4 tables

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