Study of proton parton distribution functions at high x using ZEUS data

I. Abt, L. Adamczyk, R. Aggarwal, V. Aushev, O. Behnke, U. Behrens, A. Bertolin, I. Bloch, I. Brock, N. H. Brook, R. Brugnera, A. Bruni, P. J. Bussey, A. Caldwell, M. Capua, C. D. Catterall, J. Chwastowski, J. Ciborowski, R. Ciesielski, A. M. Cooper-SarkarM. Corradi, R. K. Dementiev, S. Dusini, J. Ferrando, B. Foster, E. Gallo, D. Gangadharan, A. Garfagnini, A. Geiser, L. K. Gladilin, Yu A. Golubkov, G. Grzelak, C. Gwenlan, D. Hochman, N. Z. Jomhari, I. Kadenko, S. Kananov, U. Karshon, P. Kaur, R. Klanner, U. Klein, I. A. Korzhavina, N. Kovalchuk, H. Kowalski, O. Kuprash, M. Kuze, B. B. Levchenko, A. Levy, B. Löhr, A. Longhin, O. Yu Lukina, I. Makarenko, J. Malka, S. Masciocchi, K. Nagano, J. D. Nam, J. Onderwaater, Yu Onishchuk, E. Paul, I. Pidhurskyi, A. Polini, M. Przybycień, A. Quintero, M. Ruspa, D. H. Saxon, U. Schneekloth, T. Schörner-Sadenius, I. Selyuzhenkov, M. Shchedrolosiev, L. M. Shcheglova, I. O. Skillicorn, W. Słomiński, A. Solano, L. Stanco, N. Stefaniuk, P. Stopa, B. Surrow, J. Sztuk-Dambietz, E. Tassi, K. Tokushuku, M. Turcato, O. Turkot, T. Tymieniecka, A. Verbytskyi, W. A.T. Wan Abdullah, K. Wichmann, M. Wing, S. Yamada, Y. Yamazaki, A. F. Arnecki, L. Zawiejski, O. Zenaiev

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Abstract

At large values of x, the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton are poorly constrained and there are considerable variations between different global fits. Data at such high x have already been published by the ZEUS Collaboration, but not yet used in PDF extractions. A technique for comparing predictions based on different PDF sets to the observed number of events in the ZEUS data is presented. It is applied to compare predictions from the most commonly used PDFs to published ZEUS data at high Bjorken x. A wide variation is found in the ability of the PDFs to predict the observed results. A scheme for including the ZEUS high-x data in future PDF extractions is discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number112009
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume101
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2020

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