Taghavi-Shahri, F., Khanpour, Hamzeh and Tehrani, S. Atashbar (2016) Next-to-next-to-leading order QCD analysis of spin-dependent parton distribution functions and their uncertainties: Jacobi polynomials approach. Physical Review D, 93 (114024). ISSN 2470-0029
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Abstract
We present a first QCD analysis of next-to-next-leading-order (NNLO) contributions of the spindependent
parton distribution functions (PPDFs) in the nucleon and their uncertainties using the Jacobi polynomial approach. Having the NNLO contributions of the quark-quark and gluon-quark splitting
functions in perturbativeQCD[Nucl. Phys. B889, 351 (2014)], one can obtain the evolution of longitudinally
polarized parton densities of hadrons up to NNLO accuracy of QCD. Very large sets of recent and up-to-date
experimental data of spin structure functions of the proton gp1 , neutron gn1
, and deuteron gd1 have been used in
this analysis. The predictions for the NNLOcalculations of the polarized parton distribution functions as well
as the proton, neutron and deuteron polarized structure functions are compared with the corresponding
results of the NLO approximation.We form a mutually consistent set of polarized PDFs due to the inclusion
of the most available experimental data including the recently high-precision measurements from
COMPASS16 experiments [Phys. Lett. B 753, 18 (2016)]. We have performed a careful estimation of
the uncertainties using the most common and practical method, the Hessian method, for the polarized PDFs
originating from the experimental errors. The proton, neutron and deuteron structure functions and also their
first moments, Γp;n;d, are in good agreement with the experimental data at small and large momentum
fractions of x. We will discuss how our knowledge of spin-dependence structure functions can improve at
small and large values of x by the recent COMPASS16 measurements at CERN, the PHENIX and STAR
measurements at RHIC, and at the future proposed colliders such as the Electron-Ion Collider.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Cite as: PhysRevD.93.114024, Next-to-next-to-leading order QCD analysis of spin-dependent parton distribution functions and their uncertainties: Jacobi polynomials approach, Taghavi-Shahri, F. and Khanpour, Hamzeh and Atashbar Tehrani, S. and Alizadeh Yazdi, Z., Phys. Rev. D, volume 93, issue 11, pages 114024, 2016. American Physical Society, doi 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.114024, https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.114024 |
Keywords: | Next-to-next-to-leading order QCD analysis; spin-dependent parton distribution functions; uncertainties; Jacobi polynomials approach; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Theoretical Physics |
Item ID: | 14760 |
Identification Number: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.114024 |
Depositing User: | Hamzeh Khanpour |
Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2021 15:16 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Physical Review D |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Refereed: | No |
Funders: | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, University of Science and Technology of Mazandaran, School of Particles and Accelerators, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/14760 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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