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Main Author: Whitehill, Richard
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.28154
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contents Global QCD analyses provide the primary framework for extracting hadron structure from experimental data, yet the mechanisms by which data constrain non-perturbative functions remain difficult to interpret due to the high dimensionality and complexity of these fits. Here we develop a framework based on linear response and influence functions, which are gradient-based sensitivity measures that directly quantify how experimental information propagates to fitted quantities and observables. These quantities cleanly expose how data locally determines the central values and uncertainties of quantum correlation functions, as well as the correlations between them, providing a transparent and general framework for diagnosing information flow in inverse problems in QCD.
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spellingShingle Mapping data sensitivities in global QCD analysis with linear response and influence functions
Whitehill, Richard
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Global QCD analyses provide the primary framework for extracting hadron structure from experimental data, yet the mechanisms by which data constrain non-perturbative functions remain difficult to interpret due to the high dimensionality and complexity of these fits. Here we develop a framework based on linear response and influence functions, which are gradient-based sensitivity measures that directly quantify how experimental information propagates to fitted quantities and observables. These quantities cleanly expose how data locally determines the central values and uncertainties of quantum correlation functions, as well as the correlations between them, providing a transparent and general framework for diagnosing information flow in inverse problems in QCD.
title Mapping data sensitivities in global QCD analysis with linear response and influence functions
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.28154