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31 papers

hep-ph2026

New parton distribution functions of the real photon

Madhav Chithirasreemadam, Vadim Guzey, Felix Hekhorn +2

Precise determination of the partonic structure of real photons has attracted renewed interest in view of ongoing studies of high-energy photon-induced processes in ultraperipheral…

hep-ph2026

Taking dimuon production in DIS to NNLO precision

Ilkka Helenius, Hannu Paukkunen, Sami Yrjänheikki

We present an updated calculation of dimuon production in neutrino-nucleus collisions - an important constraint of the relatively poorly-known strange-quark distribution - at next-…

hep-ph2026

Multiplicative NLO matching in DIS with Pythia 8

Ilkka Helenius, Joni O. Laulainen, Christian T. Preuss

We present a new multiplicative next-to-leading order (NLO) matching scheme in Pythia 8 for deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) processes in electron-proton collisions. The implementat…

hep-ph2026

Associated + charm production: indications for PDF analysis

Ville Alanko, Ilkka Helenius, Hannu Paukkunen

The strange quark and antiquark contents of the proton remain weakly constrained compared to the other light quarks, particularly the asymmetry between the two. Production of a $W^…

hep-ph2026

Towards new D meson fragmentation functions

Manuel Epele, Felix Hekhorn, Ilkka Helenius +2

The Heavy Meson (Hymn) collaboration presents a new extraction of D meson fragmentation functions using experimental data from LEP and LHC. We focus particularly on kinematical reg…

hep-ph2026

Simultaneous production of a boson and a charmed hadron at the LHC in general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme

Ville Alanko, Ilkka Helenius, Hannu Paukkunen

The simultaneous production of a boson and a charmed hadron in proton-proton collisions offers a potential probe for constraining the strange quark parton distribution func…

hep-ph2026

VALO1.0: New real-photon parton distributions with Monte Carlo uncertainties

Madhav Chithirasreemadam, Vadim Guzey, Felix Hekhorn +2

Performing a global QCD analysis of data on the photon structure function in scattering, we determine new leading order (LO) and next-to-leading (NLO) parton…

hep-ph2026

Inclusive charm and bottom quark pair production cross sections at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading-order accuracy

David d'Enterria, Felix Hekhorn, Ilkka Helenius +2

The inclusive cross sections for charm () and bottom () quark-antiquark pair production in proton-proton, proton-a…

hep-ph2026

Multiplicative matching of neutral current deep-inelastic scattering processes at next-to-leading order in PYTHIA 8

Ilkka Helenius, Joni O. Laulainen, Christian T. Preuss

We introduce a method for matching the neutral-current deep inelastic scattering process with parton showers in Pythia 8, at first order in the strong coupling. The implementation,…

hep-ph2026

Dimuon production in neutrino-nucleus collisions at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD

Ilkka Helenius, Hannu Paukkunen, Sami Yrjänheikki

Charm production in charged-current neutrino-nucleus deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), measured through dimuon final states, remains an important constraint of strangeness in global…

hep-ph2025

Dimuon production in DIS with charm-mass effects

Ilkka Helenius, Hannu Paukkunen, Sami Yrjänheikki

Dimuon production in neutrino-nucleus collisions, an important constraint of strangeness in global parton distribution function analyses, is typically calculated by assuming it to…

hep-ph2025

Improving the description of dimuon production in neutrino-nucleus collisions using the SACOT- scheme

Hannu Paukkunen, Ilkka Helenius, Sami Yrjänheikki

Dimuon production in deeply inelastic scattering between neutrinos and nuclei plays an important role in constraining the strange-quark parton distribution functions (PDFs). Here,…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Multi-Jet Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering with Pythia

Ilkka Helenius, Joni O. Laulainen, Christian T. Preuss

We introduce multi-jet merging for deep inelastic scattering in the Vincia parton shower in the Monte Carlo event generator Pythia 8. Merging combines event samples of different pa…

hep-ph2024

Multi-Jet Merging in Deep Inelastic Scattering with Pythia

Joni Laulainen, Ilkka Helenius, Christian T. Preuss

We aim to improve the modelling of deep inelastic scattering by implementing multi-jet merging capabilities in Vincia parton shower in the general-purpose Monte Carlo event generat…

hep-ph2024

Modelling the underlying event in photon-initiated processes

J. M. Butterworth, I. M. Helenius, J. J. Juan Castella +3

Modelling the underlying event in high-energy hadronic collisions is important for physics at colliders. This includes lepton colliders, where low-virtuality photons accompanying t…

hep-ph2024

Dijet photoproduction and transverse-plane geometry in ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions

Kari J. Eskola, Vadim Guzey, Ilkka Helenius +2

We present new NLO pQCD predictions for the inclusive photoproduction of dijets in ultra-peripheral (UPC) lead-lead collisions at 5.02 TeV with a realistic impact-parameter depende…

hep-ph2024

Dimuon production in neutrino-nucleus collisions -- the SIDIS approach

Ilkka Helenius, Hannu Paukkunen, Sami Yrjänheikki

Dimuon production is in many global parton distribution function analyses calculated by assuming that it is proportional to inclusive charm production. As this assumption breaks do…

hep-ph2024

Global fits of proton PDFs with non-linear corrections from gluon recombination

Pit Duwentäster, Vadim Guzey, Ilkka Helenius +1

We present numerical studies of the leading non-linear corrections to the DGLAP evolution equations of parton distribution functions (PDFs) resulting from gluon recombination, whic…

hep-ph2024

Les Houches 2023: Physics at TeV Colliders: Standard Model Working Group Report

J. Andersen, B. Assi, K. Asteriadis +81

This report presents a short summary of the activities of the "Standard Model" working group for the "Physics at TeV Colliders" workshop (Les Houches, France, 12-30 June, 2023).

hep-ph2024

Hadron-ion collisions in Pythia and the vector-meson dominance model for photoproduction

Ilkka Helenius, Marius Utheim

We present an extension to the Pythia Monte Carlo event generator that enables simulations of collisions between a generic hadron beam on a nuclear target with energy variation in…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Photoproduction in general-purpose event generators

Ilkka Helenius, Peter Meinzinger, Simon Plätzer +1

We compare the three general-purpose Monte Carlo event generators, HERWIG, PYTHIA, and SHEPRA for jet photoproduction processes in and collisions. Due to the lower en…

hep-ph2024

Dimuons from neutrino-nucleus collisions in the semi-inclusive DIS approach

Ilkka Helenius, Hannu Paukkunen, Sami Yrjänheikki

We present a next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculation of dimuon production in neutrino-nucleus collisions. This process is typically calculated by assuming it to be propo…

hep-ph2024

Spatial resolution of dijet photoproduction in near-encounter ultraperipheral nuclear collisions

Kari J. Eskola, Vadim Guzey, Ilkka Helenius +2

We present next-to-leading order perturbative QCD predictions for inclusive dijet photoproduction in ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions (UPCs) within the impact-parameter…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

Proton PDFs with non-linear corrections from gluon recombination

Pit Duwentäster, Vadim Guzey, Ilkka Helenius +1

We present numerical studies of the leading non-linear corrections to the Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi evolution equations of parton distribution functions (PDFs) res…