Volume 512 - XXXII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2025) - WG1: Structure Functions and Parton Densities
Fantômas: An analysis of parton distributions in a pion with Bézier parametrizations
L. Kotz“, A. Courtoy“, P. Nadolsky“, F. Olness* and M. Ponce-Chavez“
*: corresponding author
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Pre-published on: December 15, 2025
Published on: January 28, 2026
Abstract
We systematically explore the parametrization dependence of the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) to better quantify the true uncertainty from global QCD analyses. To achieve this, we employ a novel technique that automates the generation of polynomial parametrizations for PDFs using Bézier curves. This technique is implemented in a C++ module, named Fantômas, which is now included within the xFitter program. As an example, we examine the charged pion PDF. Our analysis reveals that the sea and gluon distributions in the pion are strongly correlated, and PDF solutions featuring a vanishing gluon and a large quark sea are still experimentally allowed.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.512.0032
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