The forward physics facility: sites, experiments, and physics potential

LA Anchordoqui, A Ariga, T Ariga, W Bai, K Balazs… - Physics reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Forward Physics Facility (FPF) is a proposal to create a cavern with the space
and infrastructure to support a suite of far-forward experiments at the Large Hadron Collider …

[HTML][HTML] 50 Years of quantum chromodynamics: Introduction and Review

F Gross, E Klempt, SJ Brodsky, AJ Buras… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of quarks and gluons, whose interactions can be
described by a local SU (3) gauge symmetry with charges called “color quantum numbers” …

[HTML][HTML] The forward physics facility at the high-luminosity LHC

JL Feng, F Kling, MH Reno, J Rojo… - Journal of Physics G …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
High energy collisions at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce a large
number of particles along the beam collision axis, outside of the acceptance of existing LHC …

Rare b decays meet high-mass Drell-Yan

A Greljo, J Salko, A Smolkovič, P Stangl - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Rare b hadron decays are considered excellent probes of new semileptonic four-
fermion interactions of microscopic origin. However, the same interactions also correct the …

The PDF4LHC21 combination of global PDF fits for the LHC Run III

RD Ball, J Butterworth, AM Cooper-Sarkar… - Journal of Physics G …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A precise knowledge of the quark and gluon structure of the proton, encoded by the parton
distribution functions (PDFs), is of paramount importance for the interpretation of high …

nNNPDF3. 0: evidence for a modified partonic structure in heavy nuclei

R Abdul Khalek, R Gauld, T Giani, ER Nocera… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
We present an updated determination of nuclear parton distributions (nPDFs) from a global
NLO QCD analysis of hard processes in fixed-target lepton-nucleus and proton-nucleus …

Evidence for intrinsic charm quarks in the proton

Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The theory of the strong force, quantum chromodynamics, describes the proton in terms of
quarks and gluons. The proton is a state of two up quarks and one down quark bound by …

Snowmass 2021 whitepaper: Proton structure at the precision frontier

S Amoroso, A Apyan, N Armesto, RD Ball… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
An overwhelming number of theoretical predictions for hadron colliders require parton
distribution functions (PDFs), which are an important ingredient of theory infrastructure for …

Lepton-pair production at hadron colliders at N3LO in QCD

C Duhr, B Mistlberger - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We compute for the first time the complete corrections at N 3 LO in the strong
coupling constant to the inclusive neutral-current Drell-Yan process including contributions …

Third-order fiducial predictions for Drell-Yan production at the LHC

X Chen, T Gehrmann, N Glover, A Huss, PF Monni… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The Drell-Yan process at hadron colliders is a fundamental benchmark for the study of
strong interactions and the extraction of electroweak parameters. The outstanding precision …