The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD

ALICE Collaboration alice-publications@ cern … - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
The ALICE experiment was proposed in 1993, to study strongly-interacting matter at extreme
energy densities and temperatures. This proposal entailed a comprehensive investigation of …

Parton distributions and lattice QCD calculations: a community white paper

HW Lin, ER Nocera, F Olness, K Orginos, J Rojo… - Progress in Particle and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the framework of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), parton distribution functions (PDFs)
quantify how the momentum and spin of a hadron are divided among its quark and gluon …

Unpolarized transverse momentum distributions from a global fit of Drell-Yan and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering data

A Bacchetta, V Bertone, C Bissolotti, G Bozzi… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We present an extraction of unpolarized transverse-momentum-dependent parton
distribution and fragmentation functions based on more than two thousand data points from …

Non-perturbative structure of semi-inclusive deep-inelastic and Drell-Yan scattering at small transverse momentum

I Scimemi, A Vladimirov - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We consider semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) and Drell-Yan events
within transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization. Based on the simultaneous fit …

nNNPDF2. 0: quark flavor separation in nuclei from LHC data

RA Khalek, JJ Ethier, J Rojo, G van Weelden - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We present a model-independent determination of the nuclear parton distribution
functions (nPDFs) using machine learning methods and Monte Carlo techniques based on …

Extraction of partonic transverse momentum distributions from semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering, Drell-Yan and Z-boson production

A Bacchetta, F Delcarro, C Pisano, M Radici… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We present an extraction of unpolarized partonic transverse momentum
distributions (TMDs) from a simultaneous fit of available data measured in semi-inclusive …

First simultaneous extraction of spin-dependent parton distributions and fragmentation functions from a global QCD analysis

JJ Ethier, N Sato, W Melnitchouk… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We perform the first global QCD analysis of polarized inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-
inelastic scattering and single-inclusive e+ e-annihilation data, simultaneously fitting the …

[HTML][HTML] Production of light-flavor hadrons in pp collisions at

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, J Adolfsson… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The production of\(\pi^{\pm}\),\(\mathrm {K}^{\pm}\),\(\mathrm {K}^{0} _
{S}\),\(\mathrm {K}^{*}(892)^{0}\),\(\mathrm {p}\),\(\phi (1020)\),\(\Lambda\),\(\Xi …

Parton fragmentation functions

A Metz, A Vossen - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
The field of fragmentation functions of light quarks and gluons is reviewed. In addition to
integrated fragmentation functions, attention is paid to the dependence of fragmentation …

Extraction of quark transversity distribution and Collins fragmentation functions with QCD evolution

ZB Kang, A Prokudin, P Sun, F Yuan - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
We study the transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) evolution of the Collins azimuthal
asymmetries in e+ e-annihilations and semi-inclusive hadron production in deep inelastic …