.. NNPDF documentation master file, created by sphinx-quickstart on Mon Oct 29 10:53:50 2018. You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least contain the root `toctree` directive. The NNPDF collaboration ======================= The `NNPDF collaboration `_ performs research in the field of high-energy physics. The NNPDF collaboration determines the structure of the proton using contemporary methods of artificial intelligence. A precise knowledge of the so-called **Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs)** of the proton, which describe their structure in terms of their quark and gluon constituents, is a crucial ingredient of the physics program of the Large Hadron Collider of CERN. The NNPDF code ============== The scientific output of the collaboration is freely available to the public through the arXiv, journal repositories, and software repositories. Along with this online documentation, we release the `NNPDF code `_, used to produce the latest family of PDFs from NNPDF: NNPDF4.0. The code is made available as an open-source package together with the user-friendly examples and an extensive documentation presented here. The code can be used to produce the ingredients needed for PDF fits, to run the fits themselves, and to analyse the results. This is the first framework used to produce a global PDF fit made publicly available, enabling for detailed external validation and reproducibility of the NNPDF4.0 analysis. Moreover, the code enables the user to explore a number of phenomenological applications, such as the assessment of the impact of new experimental data on PDFs, the effect of changes in theory settings on the resulting PDFs and a fast quantitative comparison between theoretical predictions and experimental data over a broad range of observables. If you are a new user head along to :ref:`get-started` and check out the :ref:`Tutorials`. The NNPDF team ============== The NNPDF collaboration is currently composed by the following members: * Richard D. Ball - University of Edinburgh * Andrea Barontini - Università degli Studi di Milano and INFN * Alessandro Candido - Università degli Studi di Milano and INFN * Stefano Carrazza - Università degli Studi di Milano and INFN * Mark Costantini - University of Cambridge * Juan M. Cruz-Martinez - CERN * Luigi Del Debbio - University of Edinburgh * Stefano Forte - Università degli Studi di Milano and INFN * Tommaso Giani - Vrije University Amsterdam and Nikhef * Felix Hekhorn - Università degli Studi di Milano and INFN * José Ignacio Latorre - Quantum Research Centre, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Center for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore * Niccolò Laurenti - Università degli Studi di Milano and INFN * Giacomo Magni - Vrije University Amsterdam and Nikhef * Emanuele R. Nocera - Università degli Studi di Torino and INFN * Juan Rojo - Vrije University Amsterdam and Nikhef * Christopher Schwan - University of Würzburg * Roy Stegeman - University of Edinburgh * Maria Ubiali - University of Cambridge Former members of the NNPDF collaboration include * Rabah Abdul Khalek - Post-doc at Jefferson Lab, USA * Valerio Bertone - Post-doc at CEA Saclay, FR * Francesco Cerutti - Deployment of the Fly-Eye Telescope for NEO Survey - ESA/ASI * Christopher S. Deans * Alberto Guffanti - Data Scientist at PIVIGO, UK * Patrick Groth-Merrild * Nathan P. Hartland - Senior Data Analyst at Dott, NL * Shayan Iranipour - Quantitative Researcher at Tudor Investment Corporation, UK * Zahari Kassabov - Research Engineer, Opificio, London, UK * Rosalyn Pearson - Information Analyst at Public Health Scotland, UK * Andrea Piccione - High School Teacher at IPIA G. Piana, IT * Luca Rottoli - Post-doc at the University of Zurich, CH * Emma Slade - Senior AI/ML Engineer at GSK, UK * Cameron Voisey - Data Scientist at Privacy Hub by Datavant * Michael Wilson The NNPDF publications ====================== * *"The Path to N3LO Parton Distributions"*, Richard D. Ball et al. :cite:p:`NNPDF:2024nan` * *"Determination of the theory uncertainties from missing higher orders on NNLO parton distributions with percent accuracy"*, Richard D. Ball et al. :cite:p:`NNPDF:2024dpb` * *"Photons in the proton: implications for the LHC"*, Richard D. Ball et al. :cite:p:`NNPDF:2024djq` * *"The intrinsic charm quark valence distribution of the proton"*, Richard D. Ball et al. :cite:p:`NNPDF:2023tyk` * *"Evidence for intrinsic charm quarks in the proton"*, Richard D. Ball et al. :cite:p:`Ball:2022qks` * *"Regularising experimental correlations in LHC data: theory and application to a global analysis of parton distributions"*, Zahari Kassabov, Emanuele R. Nocera, Michael Wilson :cite:p:`Kassabov:2022pps` * *"Bayesian approach to inverse problems: an application to NNPDF closure testing"*, Luigi Del Debbio, Tommaso Giani, Michael Wilson :cite:p:`DelDebbio:2021whr` * *"A data-based parametrization of parton distribution functions"*, Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Roy Stegeman :cite:p:`Carrazza:2021yrg` * *"Correlation and combination of sets of parton distributions"*, Richard D. Ball, Stefano Forte, Roy Stegeman :cite:p:`Ball:2021dab` * *"The path to proton structure at 1% accuracy"*, Richard D. Ball et al. :cite:p:`NNPDF:2021njg` * *"An open-source machine learning framework for global analyses of parton distributions"*, Richard D. Ball et al. :cite:p:`NNPDF:2021uiq` * *"Future tests of parton distributions"*, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Stefano Forte, Emanuele R. Nocera :cite:p:`Cruz-Martinez:2021rgy` * *"Deuteron Uncertainties in the Determination of Proton PDFs"*, Richard D. Ball, Emanuele R. Nocera, Rosalyn L. Pearson, :cite:p:`Ball:2020xqw` * *"Parton Distribution Functions"*, Stefano Carrazza, Stefano Forte :cite:p:`Forte:2020yip` * *"Phenomenology of NNLO jet production at the LHC and its impact on parton distributions"*, Rabah Abdul Khalek, Stefano Forte, Thomas Gehrmann, Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder, Tommaso Giani, Nigel Glover, Alexander Huss, Emanuele R. Nocera, Joao Pires, Juan Rojo, Giovanni Stagnitto :cite:p:`AbdulKhalek:2020jut` * *"Why αs Cannot be Determined from Hadronic Processes without Simultaneously Determining the Parton Distributions"*, Stefano Forte, Zahari Kassabov, :cite:p:`Forte:2020pyp` * *"Single top production in PDF fits"*, Emanuele R. Nocera, Maria Ubiali, Cameron Voisey, :cite:p:`Nocera:2019wyk` * *"Parton Distributions with Theory Uncertainties: General Formalism and First Phenomenological Studies"*, Rabah Abdul Khalek, Richard D. Ball, Stefano Carrazza, Stefano Forte, Tommaso Giani, Zahari Kassabov, Rosalyn L. Pearson, Emanuele R. Nocera, Juan Rojo, Luca Rottoli, Maria Ubiali, Cameron Voisey and Michael Wilson :cite:p:`AbdulKhalek:2019bux` * *"Nuclear Parton Distributions from Lepton-Nucleus Scattering and the Impact of an Electron-Ion Collider"*, Rabah Abdul Khalek, Jacob J. Ethier, Juan Rojo, :cite:p:`AbdulKhalek:2019mzd` * *"A First Determination of Parton Distributions with Theoretical Uncertainties"*, Rabah Abdul Khalek, Richard D. Ball, Stefano Carrazza, Stefano Forte, Tommaso Giani, Zahari Kassabov, Emanuele R. Nocera, Rosalyn L. Pearson, Juan Rojo, Luca Rottoli, Maria Ubiali, Cameron Voisey, and Michael Wilson :cite:p:`AbdulKhalek:2019ihb` * *"Towards a new generation of parton densities with deep learning models"*, Stefano Carrazza and Juan Cruz-Martinez :cite:p:`Carrazza:2019mzf` * *"Parton distributions from high-precision collider data"*, Richard D. Ball, Valerio Bertone, Stefano Carrazza, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Patrick Groth-Merrild, Alberto Guffanti, Nathan P. Hartland, Zahari Kassabov, Jose I. Latorre, Emanuele R. Nocera, Juan Rojo, Luca Rottoli, Emma Slade, and Maria Ubiali :cite:p:`Ball:2017nwa` Contents ======== .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 get-started/index n3fit/index vp/index data/index theory/index figuresofmerit/index contributing/index releases ci/index serverconf/index external-code/index tutorials/index Bibliography ============ .. bibliography:: :cited: Indices and tables ================== * :ref:`genindex` * :ref:`modindex` * :ref:`search`