scholarly journals SHADOWING CORRECTIONS AND THE PRECISE DETERMINATION OF ELECTROWEAK PARAMETERS IN NEUTRINO-NUCLEON SCATTERING

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 95-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERALD A. MILLER ◽  
A. W. THOMAS

A systematic error in the extraction of sin 2θW from nuclear deep inelastic scattering of neutrinos and antineutrinos arises from higher-twist effects arising from nuclear shadowing. We explain that these effects cause a correction to the results of the recently reported significant deviation from the Standard Model that is potentially as large as the deviation claimed, and of a sign that cannot be determined without an extremely careful study of the data set used to model the input parton distribution functions.

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (25) ◽  
pp. 1630023 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Alekhin ◽  
J. Blümlein ◽  
S.-O. Moch

The status of the determination of the strong coupling constant [Formula: see text] from deep-inelastic scattering and related hard scattering data is reviewed.


2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (21) ◽  
pp. 1557-1571
Author(s):  
BURKARD REISERT

An extraction of the parton distributions of the proton by a next-to-leading order QCD fit in the framework of the Standard Model is presented. The fit implements a novel decomposition of the quark species into up- and down-type quark distributions, which is the key to enable a determination of flavor separated parton distributions from a single experiment. The fit is performed on the inclusive unpolarized neutral and charged current cross-section measurements by the H1 collaboration at HERA. The discussion of uncertainties of parton distribution functions is based upon but extends the QCD analysis published together with the H1 data.


2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D. Ball ◽  
Emanuele R. Nocera ◽  
Rosalyn L. Pearson

AbstractWe 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 determine proton and deuteron PDFs simultaneously, each including the uncertainties in the other. We apply this procedure to determine the nuclear uncertainties in the SLAC, BCDMS, NMC and DYE866/NuSea fixed target deuteron data included in the NNPDF3.1 global fit. We show that the effect of the nuclear uncertainty on the proton PDFs is small, and that the increase in overall uncertainties is insignificant once we correct for nuclear effects.


2015 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 1560053
Author(s):  
Pedro Jimenez-Delgado

Reports on our latest extractions of parton distribution functions of the nucleon are given. First an overview of the recent JR14 upgrade of our unpolarized PDFs, including NNLO determinations of the strong coupling constant and a discussion of the role of the input scale in parton distribution analysis. In the second part of the talk recent results on the determination of spin-dependent PDFs from the JAM collaboration are reported, including a careful treatment of hadronic and nuclear corrections, as well as reports on the impact of present and future data in our understanding of the spin of the nucleon.


2019 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
pp. 03021
Author(s):  
A. Aleshko ◽  
E. Boos ◽  
V. Bunichev

The new method for studying polarized parton distribution functions via the Drell-Yan process with tau production is proposed. The hadronic decay of tau to single charged pi-meson and neutrino is utilised for determination of the polarization state of the tau-lepton. The key feature of our approach is that we do not sum over the polarizations states of tau, but preserve this information through energies ofpions produced in corresponding decays. The new method in addition to existing ones should improve the accuracy of measurements of polarized structure functions of hadrons. In the current work, the feasibility of such an approach is assessed through numerical simulations.


1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (29) ◽  
pp. 2695-2702 ◽  
Author(s):  
PRAKASH MATHEWS ◽  
V. RAVINDRAN

We analyze polarized Drell-Yan process using the factorization method and derive operator definitions for polarized parton distribution functions. We demonstrate that a factorization analogous to that in the unpolarized Drell-Yan case holds in this process. We study the leading order gluonic contribution to the first moment of polarized Drell-Yan function and show that it is consistent with the results obtained from polarized deep inelastic scattering.


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